I also have been looking at somthing for my engine facility. I found it at a LHS yard sale for $5.00. This building would be so easy to scrach build Im scraching my head now, wondering why I didnt do it and will add on to it to fit my needs.
I will glue the rail in place afer removing the ties for the pit. Then use stryine sheet stock over the ties for the floor, will be a winter project and thinking of an arc welder flashing from under a locomotive in the pit. Lots of situations can be staged, will be an interesting project.
jwar - Its kind of hard to tell exactly what you have but it appears to be some sort of floor and one wall with two door openings. Certainly looks like enough to start a loco service bldg. Well after looking closer I see it has all four walls and floor no sweat your half way there. Let us know how it progresses. For five bucks you can’t go wrong. Terry
Terry I think its an old Tru-Scale shop.has a ply floor with inspection pits, one bay is a run thru and had glow bulbs in the roof, of which is removable. I like the large open side windows. Also thinking of a plexiglass roof.
I may remove the center elevated walkway so that a fork lift can access the locomotives for repairs (bringing and removing heavy items, head, liners, amd pistons, removing michiana filters and such., from the center isle and leave the walkway on both sides.
I also built a service shop, from DPM modular parts, I removed the ties completely and glued the rail to the floor with Super glue( making sure they were properly spaced of course.) See last three pic’s on this page of my web site, built my own inspection pit under track 2.
Gappleg,…visited your layout amd your back shop brought back a lot of memories, worked at the SP back shop in Sacramento for a number of years, fantistic scenery, backdrops, and detail. The flowering bush next to the yellow building really caught my eye, nice touch… Also very impressed with the exchange engines, a touch of class. Thanks…John
That is one of many building produced by the Suydam company. I believe there were about twenty five or six in their offerings. they had a great station that had a building parallel to the tracks and one 90 degrees to the tracks that extended over them. I believe it was a Pacific Electric station as they were from California. Later the company was sold and dried up as detail became better.
Gappleg that’s a nice layout you have. At my local club’s layout my modules will have, eventually, MOW facilities and engine services such as what you have. Were those engine services shops you have kits or did you kitbash?
I guess you looked at my pics then, The white one that is for the TMI railroad is a pike stuff building, it has precuts inside the wall of the kit that allow you to cut out for two doors for loco’s, actually you could cut out both ends if you wanted to to make a run through building.
The big brick one for the SP is all DPM modular parts, I hypothised a previous manufacturing bulding was taken over by the SP and they modified the building to suit their needs. The one on the other side of the transfer table again is a pike stuff building modified to be a one track repair building, mainly for rolling stock repair.
Ed Suydam, (IIRC), was basically a Pacific Electric modeler and not only sold interurbans, trollies and all their accessories, but the structures to go with it. Many were cardboard structures and some were corrugated metal of some type that were soldered together.
The company was sold and was last offered under the California Model label. Not sure if they are still in business or not. They were up until a couple of years ago for sure.
One of their most popular buildings was (is?) the “Black Bart Mine”. A simple metal tipple and conveyor system. Wonder how many hundreds, if not thousands of those were sold over the years. Rarely saw any completed on the layouts I’ve seen over the years.
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