my Logging Caboose
By Brian Donovan on Nov 23, 2006 | In C&A Rolling Stock | Send feedback »
This project is a companion piece to my Dunkirk locomotive. I wanted a small logging caboose and not wanting to spend any money on a new caboose, I remembered I still had a Bachmann bobber caboose sitting in the closet (from the same set as the gondola I used for the Dunkirk). So with a bit of tinkering I could create a new logger from it. This was my starting point –
a Modern Factory
By Brian Donovan on Dec 6, 2006 | In C&A Structures | Send feedback »
This project was to fill the need of having a large modern factory typical of post war construction. Construction is fairly simple. Its basically a 3’ wide by 18 1/2” deep and 15” high box made of 1/4″ hardibacker tile board. At 1:24 scale this works out to 72’ long x 37’ deep x 30’ high. Windows and doors are from a Precision Products Industrial Details sheet. The extra large side door was from aluminum sheet. The loading dock is painted pink foam board. The roof is sprayed with rubber coating. As an added bonus, the factory often serves as a track side table.
a couple of construction pics -
and on the layout -
-Brian
Passenger and Freight Depots
By Brian Donovan on Jan 16, 2007 | In C&A Structures | 2 feedbacks »
These are two small scratch built depots. The bodies are pressure treated pine (old scraps thoroughly dry).
The passenger depot is board siding done on the table saw with the blade set at 45 degrees barely raised to scribe the lines. The doors are Precision Products and windows are from hardware cloth. The trim is cedar. The roof is 1/4″ hardibacker board with a PP veneer.
The freight depot is board and batten siding done on the table saw with a dado blade. The doors and windows as above except the large doors which are scribed as above. The roof is hardibacker with a tread tape roof. The concrete loading dock is painted pink foam board.
-Brian
Boxcar Shed
By Brian Donovan on Jan 19, 2007 | In C&A Structures | Send feedback »
This little project is an idea I got from Model Railroader back in my HO days many moons ago. I picked by a cheap and well abused LGB boxcar on eBay and cut it in two. I added lot of details with scratch tables from cedar and tools from a garage detailing kit.
-Brian
Railway Water Tank
By Brian Donovan on Mar 12, 2007 | In C&A Structures | Send feedback »
This scratch built water tank is based on the Morristown & Erie tank at the Whippany (NJ) Railway Museum (M&E tank). This tank will serve my main town of Silver Spring.
The base is pink foam board covered with plastic veneers. The tank body is a 6″ PVC pipe coupler covered with cedar slats (which worked out to be on 1/4″ smaller than the prototype). The roof is cedar shingled and other details are cedar, a copper tube spout, rebar wire bands, etc.
-Brian