Yard office

Very nice Dave!  That looks really good.

Nice progress

Looking forward to seeing it painted in classic Reading building colors.

Fran Giacoma

Nice...

That's gonna look really good.  

Keep the updates coming. 

Randy

Learn as you go

I started gluing the windows in then realized that painting it with the windows in was going to be harder, so stopped gluing in windows (they are just set in place for the picture).

The walls were constructed of a .040 styrene core and then I layered .040 x.040 strip and .040 siding over that.  It wasn't until I was 3/4 the way through the construction that I realized that if I had assembled just the trim strips on the core and then cut all the siding filler pieces (for example the side of the tower facing the tracks has 11 individual pieces of siding to fit between the windows and trim strips) but did not glue the siding in place, I could have painted all the trim and the core brown and then painted the siding cream.  Afterwards gluing the siding in place, no masking.  Oops.  Fortunately (unfortunately?) I will have several other buildings to make that I can test that method on.

Accurate & clean work!

Very nice scratchbuilding there Dave. Looking forward to seeing it progress to painting!

Thanks for posting this

Yannis

Similar structure

I happened to be looking at the Fall 1960 issue of Model Trains last night and there was a diagram for a similar structure only the one story portion was longer and was a freight station.  It was not a prototype building but an imagineered structure.  Nice work, Dave.

Robert

Foundation

What kind of foundation will you use?

Bill

Foundation

It will be very shallow, probably painted brick red.  The foundation isn't visible in the pictures of the building, and "dirt" comes up to the bottom of the siding, or at least so close the foundation isn't readily visible.

The foundation for a 1880's building on the east coast would most likely be either brick or stone.

Looking good!

Looking good!

New Roofs

By the way here is one of the pictures I used to build my yard office, this is the side away from the tracks.  Because of the configuration of the layout the track arrangements are flipped, so I built the building flipped.

Here is the original roof after I built the small awning roofs.  You can clearly see the original roof is way too small. Plus it didn't sit flat.

Here is the new roof , larger and sits flat on the walls.

OBTW, would there be any interest in something explaining how I laid out my hip roofs and cut the pieces?

Seconded!

I used to know how to do that from 4 years of "mechanical drawing" in high school followed by 4 years of being an architecture major in college but damned if I remember how to do it now. I could probably figure it out but I'm pretty sure it would eat up my remaining spare brain cells........any tips, suggestions etc. either T square and triangle or in the computer and my old brain would be so thankful.

Nice structure BTW.

Impressive

Very nice, clean work

Very Nice

Very nice structure, Dave, I would definitely be interested in how the hip roof is laid out, because most Soo Line maintenance of way, and roundhouse service area buildings like the sand house, and power house for the coal towers were hip roof buildings. I also need to kit bash a Walthers Cornerstone UP style wooden depot to have a hip roof instead of the gable roof to make it resemble the M&StL depot in Bradley, South Dakota. Jim

 "The foundation isn't

Looks like the prototype has a brick or stone foundation and wall up to the bottom of the windows so dirt against it wouldn't be a problem as it would be with an all wood lower wall. with the all wood wall I'd raise the floor level a bit so a foundation can keep dirt off the siding....DaveB

Walls

Nope, its wood siding.  The typical construction for RDG depots was a wood wall all the way down.  The structures that had stone half walls were fairly rare and were depots where being ornate counted (for example the depot at Elverson, which is three or four years away in construction).  Most stone or brick buildings were stone or brick all the way up.  Yard offices and support buildings were plainer (and cheaper) construction.  The P&R/RDG  commonly painted the lower 3-4 feet of exterior walls a chocolate brown color.

Benjamin Bernhart published a 4 volume set of soft cover books with pictures of the majority of RDG stations.  It has pictures of 41 of the depots on the 72 mile W&N Branch alone.

Next....

I have been working on the roofs and got all the brackets in.  I started prefabbing them but found it was easier to build them in place.

I also tried different paint mixes and finally decided that one part Tru-color Passenger car interior cream mixed with 4 parts white matches the paint chips I flaked off the depot at Tamaqua about 30 years ago for the depot cream part of the "chocolate and vanilla" scheme.

While I was painting buildings and was going to have to mix the paint, I decided to go ahead and kitbash the CV Office (yard and train order office)  and the depot and fright house for Coatesville.  I had the kits and had photocopied paper mock ups as stand-ins so it was time.

I have kitbashed several yard buildings from these kits, they are a nice frame building with lots of options.

Here is the CV Office. The big hole in the second floor is for a bay window.  I combined parts from both kits.  The roof line was cut down to make a shallower pitch.

Here is the depot.  It has wider ends and was lengthened.