Recently I decided that I wanted to change stations. In my railroad the layout is 42 ft. around, that means there is room for only one station, it isn’t a comuter railroad. I had been using the “western” style Rio Grande station that was made by New Bright. Now the Rio Grande station is used as a roundhouse building. The new station is a pretty accurate model of the Magic Kingdom’s Main Street station, which is a large, elegant Victorian style station. It is also a collector’s item that is now discontinued, Disney World sold it in 2003 and that’s when I bought it. It was put together and was unused until now. The station itself is HO scale, but I later found out that it can be used perfectly with O scale layouts. I then figured that I could use it with my G scale layout if I had something to elevate it with. So I ventured into the garage and found some wood. I cut the wood into two parts to make it wide enough for the station’s width, then I painted the wood a concrete color to match the loading platform, added a circular stairway at the station’s main entrance made out of sturdy styrofoam painted concrete color to make it look like real concrete. And this is what resulted:
And this is the old station, now used as a track-side service building in the roundhouse.
