Scenery and structures

The Pacific Electric Freight Station…
I have been researching Pacific Electric freight operations way too much this year, and now it is an obsession.

Silver plume store in HO
Hi all!
This is my latest build that only took me two days to finish.
I had this HSM Silver plume store kit. (Same MFG as the fire station I built)
Really nice old craftsman kit with mostly printed cardboard and wood parts. Moulded plastic windows and corbels.
The walls had to be cut from sheet wood.
Roof material is surgical tape.
Real glass in the windows (which needs to be cleaned...) ????.
Which Walthers Kit(s) are these sprues from?
Wondering if anyone can identify these that I got as part of a bunch of misc. parts. There are some ladders, maybe piping, bulk commodity elevatory or something. Thanks.
Cheap paint option for painting foam board base?
I am getting ready to paint the surface of my foam board (2" Foamular) and came across this paint on Walmart's website. It is labeled as interior latex so that should be a cheap option to coat the board right before scenery?
Deck Plate Girder Bridge
I am modeling a large deck plate girder bridge on my HO scale layout based on a prototype located on the former C&O. The girders for this bridge are huge – probably 12-ft deep and have a span of somewhere in the 100-ft range. I haven't been able to find any kits in HO scale that are anywhere near this big, so I'm turning my thoughts toward scratchbuilding it.
That led me to wondering if I could start with O scale girders. I found these O scale resin girders from Scenery Express which seem to be a good fit dimensionally...
Scratch bridge building
A recent purchase provided me with an bridge shaped packing piece of polystyrene, I guess in the US it is styrofoam.
We had an old back scrubber which needed replacing. This was composed of wooden nodules which I removed before throwing the rest of the scrubber away. I had 38 nodules and needed to complete the length of the proposed bridge.
I bought some plate girders and with some plaster soaked bandage I had enough to start.
Stewart/Tomar single track sanding tower (SP-102)
Purchased a Stewart/Tomar Sanding Tower couple years ago. Having trouble figuring out how the sand pipes connect to the bottom of the tank. Anyone built one of these that can post some photos of that attachment?

Nevada city fire station
Hi all!
I´m starting a new project...
A really old kit that I bought a while back.
It´s going to be fun to build a really old craftsman kit. Printed cardboard, some stripwood and a lot of instructions....

Blair line church in HO
I built the Blair line church kit.
http://www.blairline.com/church/
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