Hey,I’m very new at this. I have an HO train and bought a Lumber Mill HO scale. The train seems to be so much larger than the mill. I thought if I stayed with the HO scale when I purchase any scenery it would look correct to the HO train. Please any help would be good.
It could be a repacked and improperly scaled model. Are you sure which item is which scale? You’ll need to get a reference guide about scale diameters on the wheels of the locomotive, as an example, and then measure the toy’s wheels and figure out if they are close to the prototype. Or measure other parts and spec them.
Photos with one next to the other would really help.
Crandell
Do you still have the box? If so what manufacturer and model is it?
It might be a small lumber mill. You can do a rough check. A standard door is about 7-8 feet. HO track is nominally 4’ 8.5" between the rails. So an HO scale door, and a mill oughta have at least one standard door somewhere, ought to be a little less than twice the track gauge.
Heed the previous responses. The photo, is of my HO scale “Lumber Mill” form Walthers. It is unusual in that it is built on a “pull-out” drawer, to allow access to the rear rails (that are hard to reach). The drawer also makes a good base for the pond. I just purchased a set of logging flat cars,(with mounted logs". The logs are probably scale, but are much larger in diameter than the logs in the pond. Incidentally, I used “Magic Water” to fill the pond. For three years the water lay flat, and then for some reason started to “curl up” around the logs and pond bank. Bob Hahn 
The stockyard is another industry that you might consider.
YOu could have an N scale lumber mill possibly.
It could very well be an HO train and an HO scale Lumber mill. Though it seems the mill should be huge compared to the HO train, Some Real trains are larger than the buildings beside them. It depends on the mill as to wheather it is giagantic compared to the train, or the train is gigantic to the mill. Some later large Steam locos were HUGE in comparison to some buildings they stood next to.
I measured the door opening and it’s .875 .It is an AtlasHO Lumber Yard and office.If I use it further back in the scenery it might look better.I have alot to learn about model trains.
.875" would be roughly 6’4" in HO scale… slightly smaller than a standard door.
I have found some kits by Atlas and Model Power to be slightly smaller than true HO scale, but they’re close enough unless you’re a real stickler for detail. I’m not familiar with the Atlas Lumber Yard kit, but it may be in that category.
Try putting an HO figure up against the model to make sure it’s really the scale that’s off, and not your own sense of perception. As others have pointed out, many people – especially those new to the hobby – don’t have a good concept of how big a train really is.
The structure itself isn’t really too small. There’s a lumber yard I know of with a similarly sized and shaped shed they store lumber in. However, there’s a cluster of about 12 of them making up the lumberyard.
The Atlas Lumber Yard (it’s really just a shed and office/shanty) has been around for decades - the shanty has been repackage often, usually as a trackside shanty. The shanty seems about the right scale size for HO scale (I updated the door on mine with Pikestuff, and needed to file the opening a bit larger), but it’s not really underscale - the problem is the Atlas kit is not really a whole lumber yard in and of itself, it’s just a lumber shed & shanty - even turn of the previous century lumber-yards were bigger, and if this facility is to be rail served it should be coupled w/ some other storage building & lumber sheds.
Walthers offers up a lumber yard (w/ 2 sheds), Alpine Models offers the old E. Suydam lumber yard (this may have been around as long as the Atlas model) - heck, you could build your own shed using Plastruct or Evergreen structural beams and Evergreen grooved siding (and some sort of rolled roofing). The thing is to get a larger facility to justify it getting rail service or even being in existance - a small one shed lumber yard like the Atlas one would not likely survive in business unless it was in part of a business like a coal yard or cabinet/furniture mill etc.
Has soon as I read the post I knew it had to be the Atlas Lumber Yard. I have one and it is way smaller IMHO than it should be. Wood planks then self seem fine but the building it self is smaller than any lumber yard I have been to.
Cuda Ken
Thanks for the help. I checked the dimensions from the Alpine Models site and the one I have is slightly smaller. I actually put 4ea. 1/4-20 hex nuts underneath it to raise it up some.