One of the more common lineside details was the concrete instrument house. Th Frisco had many in addition to other railroads. Several offer the steel instrument houses but the only concrete one I can find is at the Q Connection (An online store for Burlington modelers).
Does anyone know if anyone else has these? As common as they were, it seems like they should be offered commercially. They wouldn’t be hard to scratchbuild, but I’ll be needing several dozen. Maybe I need to build a mold and make these for myself and others who need this common detail.
You may want to use the Kalmbach model railroad index to search for old articles. I vaguely recall a Model Railroader or RMC article from circa 1970 about building one of these. I believe they used wood. Getting the right size dowel is easy. Making the conical cap will be a little trickier, but shouldn’t be too hard. Then you file a flat place on it to represent the door, maybe making it out of cardstock. That’s the kind you’re talking about, right?
Making a mold to cast some in plaster would probably do the trick if you a need them in quantity.
Seemingly wrong. If you look at the link the man posted, the only thing there described as a concrete instrument house is this one (the H0 scale model of which is “temporarily unavailable”, according to the page):
