Bendaire station

Mr. Bridger:

Beautiful job!  Is this depot from a kit or scratchbuilt?  In any case, the proportions, coloring, weathering and details are perfect, in my humble opinion!  For someone with "no previous experience with US prototypes," you certainly didn't do anything the "wrong way" as near as I can tell.  (Besides, it's model railroading!  If it works for your layout, there is no "wrong way!)  Great work!

Roger

Off to a good start

That's a nice structure!  If the Red Mountain layout turns out as nice as your Grimstad Line it'll be great.

Very Nice

If this station is any indication of what the rest of the layout will look like, I think you will be just fine. Please post more photos of your work when you get a chance.  

Outstanding

That is one nice station. Well done. Now, have I got a deal for you.  Keep up the great modeling.

Roy

Thank you I hope to be

Thank you I hope to be able to show some progress in the coming months. The summer is peak model railroading season for me for some reason.

The building is a kit from railroadkits.com

Very Nice!

 First attempt? Holy Toledo - I can only imagine where you'll be with future kits, as that depot is absolutely gorgeous! 5 stars!

Cheers!
Marc

Colorado?

My new H0n3 railroad will be influenced by the narrow gauge railroads in Colorado. Will this depot fit in that setting?

real Red Mt. Railroad

Just so you know there was actually a real Red Mountain railroad in Southern British Columbia just above where Spokane is. The line was mainly used as a mining line to haul coal down to the smelter where it was processed before being sent off to other smelters for further processing. This line eventually came to be subsumed within the Kettle Valley Railroad which was also eventually taken over by the Canadian Pacific. Red Mountain is still here today but unfortunately the tracks have been mostly pulled from the right-of-way and now it is basically a hiking/biking trail. Nice job on the structure? I want to know too if it is a kit?

Hi Mr Bridger

I am also building in HOn3 and the Colorado style RR. You asked if this type Station will work on Colorado Type RR yes I think it will work as a whistle stop but in all my books I can't find this type station except on the standard gauge Santa Fe line that ran through California & Arizona in the 1950's but I'll keep looking.

First remember the Number 1 rule of Model Railroading is: It's your Railroad and you can make it or build it anyway you want.

Very nice job at assembly and paint except the paint is not a Colorado Narrow Gauge color as they used a Depot Yellow and Depot Orange and there other Buildings and Water tanks were a Cream color. These colors are made by Polly-Scale paints and come as D&RGW Yellow (Polly-Scale # 414257) also D&RGW Orange (Polly-Scale # 414254) and D&RGW Building Cream (Polly-Scale # F414255.

Before you build and paint any other Models for Colorado Narrow Gauge if your plan is to be proto typical I would suggest you pick up a couple Books with color photos of the D&RGW RR Depots. Most all of the Colorado Narrow gauge RR had a specific build that was used on all the depots through out all of Colorado. They all were Two story with the living quarters for the station Master on the top floor. As far as length they ranged from 40 foot long to 80 foot long. The longer stations were doubled as freight shipping stations as well as Passenger and the bigger the town the longer their stations tended to be. The only single story station I can find is the station at Silverton Colorado and it was built around 1970 for the Durango and Silverton Narrow gauge scenic Railroad when the line was refurbished.

Pictures Of Colorado type section House (station)

I found a couple photos of D&RGW Structures D&RGW pre 1910 color faded Box car red (the red building)

The second is after 1910 with the Depot Yellow with Brown trim which became the standard through out the Narrow Gauge years.

I'm still looking for your station or one close and from what I have been reading there were a number of color changes from 1900 to 1910 at deferent stations and Think your little Depot will fit somewhere color included.

Nice photos! The green color

Nice photos! The green color might have been a experimental color with the Red Mountain Ry.

I've just ordered an undecorated Blackstone C-19, so I guess I need to come up with a logo or at least a number to put on the side of the loco (and maybe the tender?) Ideas are most welcome. The drawing in the before mentioned article in MR has the words "Red Mountain" on the tender with red lettering, which looks kind of odd to me. What about RMR and no.1 or something on the cab?

Dan, Many Colorado narrow

Dan,

Many Colorado narrow gauge depots fit that description but certainly not all.  Color schemes changed at least several times - there's the depot buff/brown that's most familiar today, the earlier red (that I think was paired with white and green) that you show an example of at Osier, and at one point a white/green scheme (which I think the Durango depot received sometime in the mid-20th century).

As for single story depots, examples I can think of off the top of my head: Red Mountain Town and Ironton on the Silverton Railroad; Antonito, Chama, Santa Fe (the second depot), Gato, Dulce, Cimarron, and Montrose on the D&RG(W); Placerville, Stoner, and I believe the first depot at Ophir on the RGS...there are plenty more, but those are some examples that pop to mind from the San Juan region.

And I believe the Silverton depot dates from the 1880s.  It may have been rebuilt/refurbished by the D&SNG, but it was certainly built by the D&RG before the turn of the century.

And your depot looks very nice - looking forward to seeing the rest of the layout.

Colors and such

Since you're not modeling a specific RR, I think your depot is OK in green.  The buff/brown colors were associated with much of the D&RGW/RGS history, but other colors existed on different railroads and eras.  As for lettering on your C-19, the article illustration was out of character for many of the Colorado narrow gauges.  Your suggestion for lettering sounds OK.  For the sake of argument, how about a big number on the tender, and the RMR letters or a logo on the cab? 

What do you think?

I've done a little Photoshopping to test two different "designs" for the locos. Which one do you think looks best? Personally I'm leaning towards the first version below here.

Re: What do you think?

I'm partial to the first photo, with the road name on the tender.  The second looks a bit sparse with the single-digit road number.  The style of lettering looks appropriate for a Colorado narrow gauge line either way.

Second one looks like

I think they both look very

I think they both look very good - they're essentially both RGS schemes that were used at one point or another, and the first also reminds of a Silverton Northern locomotive...not sure which one, perhaps #3?  I might make the lettering on each just slightly smaller, but I think they're very Colorado-y schemes.

My Red Mountain Ry. project

My Red Mountain Ry. project is now well underway. The first two sections have been built, and I have just started laying track. Now I need to put in a small bridge crossing a small creek and I am looking for nice bridge kits to use. Does anyone have any good ideas what to use here? I would like it to be as detailed as possible, but I don't want to scratch build it. So a kit or a ready made model would suit me fine. It should be around 20 centimeters long and it will be only about 5 centimeters above the river. I like both wooden trestles and steel bridges.

Anyone?

Bar Mills

MRH advertiser Bar Mills has a "low boy trestle" kit that may work.  A trestle of that size is a pretty easy scratch project if you can't find a kit you like, but purchasing all the materials may not be cost-effective for one small trestle though.

I've actually looked at the

I've actually looked at the low boy kit from Bar Mills. Maybe I'll give that one a go.

Nice touches

The things that make for a truly outstanding model are the little touches.

I like the weed clumps, the bike and the child holding the teddy bear.

Great Job

Very impressive work. I agree with Roy, the details make a big difference, as do the signs. I am not sure about that trim across the top of the station. It looks sort of out-of-place to me, but I am far from an expert on Colorado narrow gauge.

I think both lettering plans for the loco look good but, as with you, I lean to the first one.

Great job!

Jim Collins

Real Red Mtn Railroad

Hi, just wanted to add to your post on this railroad. The railroad was built by Daniel Corbin to bring ore from the gold mines in Rossland, B.C. to the smelter in Northport, Washington on the Columbia River. The 7.4 miles from Northport to the Canadian border was chartered under the name "Columbia and Red Mountain Railroad" and the 9.53 miles on the Canadian side of the border to Rossland was chartered in Canada as the "Red Mountain Railway"  The railroad had an average grade of 2.74% on its climb up the Little Sheep Creek valley to Rossland. At the same time that the Red Mountain Railroad was being built another charter the "Columbia and Western Railway" was let to Fritz Augustus Heinze to run from Heinze's smelter in Trail B.C. to the gold mines of Rossland. Heinze's charter also included the rights to build his railway west to Penticton on Okanagan Lake. The CPR was interested in extending their railroad  to Rossland and to the Okanagan and purchased this charter and the smelter from Heinze.

Red Mountain Depot

Nice work Tore!  Your depot has the general appearance and proportions of the Silverton Railroad depot which was located at Red Mountain Colorado.  It's long gone now but pictures survive in many books covering the "Three Little Lines" which radiated out of Silverton Colorado to serve the mining districts. I'll bet you can find one at the Colorado Railroad Museum site, or then NMRA photo archive. 

The Silverton RR. was the largest of the three (others were Silverton Northern and Silverton Gladstone & Northerly).  The Red Mountain depot didn't have the open center area - after all, It was located at an elevation of 11,025 feet above sea level and it was cold up there most of the time - but otherwise looks about the length and width of your model.  It was probably painted red, if painted at all.  Hard to tell from the black and white photos.  No color film available back in the 1880's!  It actually sat inside the wye at Red Mountain and had an outhouse nearby for passengers.

Keep us updated on your progress.  You are off to a great start.

Rod