Lets see your Passenger Station Pictures!!! (Model or Real)

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Post your pictures of your Passenger Stations. Kevin

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I have two small town depots currently. The first one is the MA&G depot at Wharton, MS.

This second one serves Edna, MS.

The one not built yet will be the huge New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, which I will scratchbuild when I begin my third level this summer. I have 20 passenger trains which are crying out for such a destination. The complex will include the baggage, RPO and REA facilities. I’ll be posting photos of my progress on my website. Stay tuned…

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This is my HO Scale model of the Burbank Depot built it as a low relief structure. Gets a lot of box cars at the freight platform. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/1916/burbank_depot.jpg

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Here is the story.

The Story of the Last Kiss

In April of 1943, as the logging season in Northern Minnesota drew to a close, the call went out from Uncle Sam saying more troops were needed to take back the Pacific. Most of the loggers from The Sublime Mountain Logging Company volunteered, her boy friend included. After basic training the loggers, now soldiers, returned on a three day pass before shipping out to the Pacific theater. In early August they all met at the old Sublime Junction station to say good bye, wish each other luck and promising to return soon and safe. He gave her one last kiss.

During the next weeks and months the memory of that kiss kept her going as the war dragged on. Then in late 1944 the news arrived that his fighter plane had been shot down and he was listed as missing-in-action . She never heard from him again, but each year, in early August, she returns to the, now long abandoned, station to remember that last kiss. She is now old, as is everything from that moment - except the memory. It seems like the only thing still real in her lonely life.

There is rumor that the only reason the old, rundown station is not torn down is in her honor and in the memory of her logger.

Here is the station;

Sad, but true a thousand times, and still today somewhere.

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Here’s a pic of the main passenger station on my layout:

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I just took this photo last sunday in Wolfeborough New hampshire.what a Beauty.

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ARTHILL, thats a new dimension in modeling I’ve never thougt of or saw before. I’ve been in the hobby off and on for 40 yrs or so too. What a nice little story.

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This is the best I can offer, since my pike is mainly industrial. Off to the left is a model of the Sykesville, MD station formerly made by LifeLike:

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Art Hill
Art, I think you have the soul of a poet. I think that is just a great idea.

Ken

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Art, my hat is off to you mate, nicely done.

Here’s the story and description of one of the stations on my freelanced commuter line, which is not yet built but is my summer project:

Crescent City Union Station (CUS) was built by a terminal company jointly owned by the Canadian National, Canadian Pacific and New York Central System (through subsidiary London & Eastern Ontario) following the catastrophic great fire of 1922 where Crescent City’s business district, was reduced to rubble in a three-day blaze.

World Renown Italian-Canadian architect Salivoire Lancia, widely regarded as one of the fathers of the art deco style, was commissioned for the job, and design began well. However, a month into the initial drafting Lancia’s wife died of pneumonia, prompting him to turn the work into both a memorial to her, and to his loss. The final design submitted to the CUS board was moody and dark yet starkly beautiful and ingenious. The station would be stub-ended as most were in larger cities, except the outermost two tracks, which would continue through for easier passage of prestigious name trains making short station stops. The main terminal itself housed a hundred meter long main concourse, fully furnished in art deco styling with steel sculptures of Roman heroes and gods. The room was harshly lit from the floor but a gleaming stainless steel arched ceiling reflected the light back while reducing glare with slight diffusion making the statues seem to glow. The centerpiece of the concourse was a statue of the Three Graces, with a likeness of Lancia’s wife as one of the women.

The platform itself was a work of art as well. Black volcanic sand was used in the concrete making it a shimmering obsidian color. The shed was sheathed in stainless steel arches that are said to have inspired the hubcap-designs on the side of the Chrysler Building in New York. Even the towers for the baggage elevators were shaped into action poses of the twelve Olympian Gods.

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[image]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/jjmel/Model%20Trains/0107050041.jpg[/image]

Here’s a rendering of what I hope will someday be the eastern terminal of my Wabash model RR. Built in 1893, bears a striking resemblance to some other buidings of that period in Detroit. Closed to rail traffic, I believe in 1971 and razed in 1974. Like so many other Detroit landmarks, it became a home for bums, whinos, and other miscreants. In it’s hayday, it served as a terminal for the Wabash RR, Pere Marquette (later C&O) and Pennsylvania RR. If interested, you can read more about it here, including a story about the final run of the Wabash Cannonball out of this station before it was closed down.

http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Stories/FSUD-TheFinalDays.htm

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Chicago Northwestern station in Chicago. Razed somtime in 1980’s.

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Photos of the Passenger station on my N scale layout
Cheers
Cliff

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Cute story and nice photos, but if that gal was wearing those clothes in 1943, she must have been the most popular girl in town!!![;)]

I scratchbuilt this simple (and rather undetailed station) years ago. It now acts as the Laurel MT passenger station:

Some prototype stations:

The CB&Q Station in Greybull WY in the early 1900s (hey! Kinda almost looks sorta like the one I made!):

Looks a lot like the early Basin and Worland WY depots, too:

Here’s the C&NW in Casper circa 1915:

The Douglas WY Burlington depot in the 1920s-30s, and in 2003:

Here’s the C&NW depot in Lander WY around 1940:

And in 2003 (now the chamber of commerce):
[img]http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.com/images/Photos/Along%20the%20CNW/Prototype/La

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This is the old Western Md station at Thurmont MD. All I had to build it was 3 photographs and the foundation measurments (thats all thats left of it, is foundation blocks barely protruding at ground level). All the other measurments were extrapilated from the known good measurments. I used to have it on another module that was of the WM main and the Hagerstown & Frederick interchage track, but that interest went by the wayside. So I moved it to another module. The scene is no longer prototypical, but I like it.

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Hey Guys they are all lookin good!!! Keep them coming… Kevin

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they look great I’ll try to post mine soon.