Chesapeake & Appalachian Railway

My structure section includes short blurbs on my scratch built, kitbashed and some of the more unusual kit buildings on my layouts. None of buildings on my layout are pre-made out-of-a-box!

-Brian

This patio / gazebo was planned and mostly built before the inception of the garden railway. The patio is irregular flagstone set on concrete sand. The gazebo is set on 4″x4″ posts covered with 6″ pipe painted with a sandstone finish. It is basic frame construction up top. It has cedar shingle siding and roof. It is equipped with electricity with a big three speed fan for warm summer nights and lights.

-Brian

This is a 1:24 scale tool shed from PRR standard plans. It is from a Train Stuff kit. The kit is urethane castings that are a bit thin, had heavy flash, and no roofing material is provided. Once cleaned up, reinforced and painted it came out nice. I added a metal chimney, an asphalt roll roof (tread tape) and raised it on a concrete base (painted foam board).

-Brian

Donovan’s Pub is my first scratch built structure. It is basically two building flats (front and back) of pink foam board covered with Precision Products veneers. The roof is 1/4″ hardibacker board also covered with PP veneer. It fits in a town block of Piko kit buildings.

-Brian

O’Brien’s is a Colorado Model Structures Virginia Mills Graining Co. kit. It was altered a bit by converting the wood vent stacks into brick chimneys. It sits on top of a section of old concrete sidewalk.

-Brian