Hello,
i’m looking for drawings and plans off railroad and industrie struktures.
I hope you can help me.
greets
Frank
Frank,
your request may be just a little to general to be answered here. What type of structures are you looking for? This could be:
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Railroad structures like depots, sheds, freight houses, towers, loco sheds, roundhouses etc., etc,?
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Industry structures like warehouses, grain elevators breweries, canneries, food processing, steel?
In which scale would you like to have the drawings?
MR used to drawings published frequently, but I see less and less of that nowadays. I would not think that anybody here in the forum has a complete library of scale drawings of all sorts of buildings at hand, so please limit your choice and ask again!
I am sorry, but I don´t have drawings, either!
Hello Ulrich,
I’m looking in first for depots, sheds, freight houses, towers, loco sheds, roundhouses from US-Railroad.
but also the industry structures what you write.
I’m begin to plan my modellrailroad in nscale, but i will make the structures in paperkraft.
so i hope that anybody here in this forum can help me.
The structures must be americanstile.
greets
Frank
my english isn’t so good, sorry for this.[#oops]
Everything you want has appeared in MR magzine over the years and a lot more. You can’t ask someone to copy them as it voilates the copyrights but you can for your own use. Try to find someone with back issues that you can look through and then copy the plans you want. Nearly every issue since inception has had plans so don’t rule out early issues.
Hi Frank –
Have you had a look at the online HABS/HAER (Historical American Building Survey/Historical American Engineering Records) collection at the US Library of Congress ?
They have pictures and engineering drawings of quite a few buildings and structures.
Here: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/subject.html
Subjects starting with R (as in Railroad):
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/subjectR.html
Smile,
Stein
Hello Stein,
Thank you for your help, here in germen do you dont have many optinos to becom many off this.
greets
Frank
I am sorry, Frank, I understand that you want to say that something like “Here in Germany we don’t have many options to ”, but I didn’t understand the “become many of this” part of the sentence.
Mein Deutsch is ganz slecht :-), aber können Sie bitte das in Deutsch sagen?
Grüss,
Stein
Hallo Stein,
dein Deutsch ist besser als mein English.[:D]
Hier in Deutschland hat man nicht soviel Möglichkeiten, gerade als Anfänger an solche Zeichnungen zu kommen.
Ich beschäftige mich noch nicht lange mit US-Bahnen.
Greets
Frank
Hier in Norwegen auch. Es ist sehr gut das wir die Internet haben, nicht wahr ? 
Forgive me if I continue in English - my German really is very rusty - I haven’t really used it in almost 30 years.
Another source of drawings is old copies of e.g. Model Railroader Magazine and other magazines. There is an index at http://index.mrmag.com, where you can search for old articles with drawings.
If you look at http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?tmpl=tm_nmra5 it is fairly easy to find articles about various kinds of structures (like RR stations).
Smile,
Stein
Hallo Stein,
das muss ich mir mal zuhause anschaun, im Büro geht es nicht, wird geblockt.
Ja dank internet geht es.
greets
Frank
Model Railroader no longer publishes many plans for structures (or cars or locomotives for that matter) but the NMRA publication Scale Rails almost always features structure drawings by Harold Russell or Pat Harriman. Pat Harraiman has published a book of structure drawings - I have not seen the book but have enjoyed the drawings in Scale Rails. An internet search shows that his self published book “Early Wood Frame and Stone Structures” is available directly from him for $29.95 + $5 S/H. His address is Pat Harriman, 9331 Farley Lane, Overland Park, KS, 66212.
Whether that shipping and handling charge is US only I do not know.
Dave Nelson
There are some nice books on building structures as well.
I have ordered a copy of this scratch/bashing book edited by Dick Christiansen : “H0 trackside industries you can build” (Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Lineside-Industries-Build-Model-Railroader/dp/0890242712).
This one I already have, and it is full of nice tips on scratch building structures: Bob Hayden’s “H0 trackside structures you can build” (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Trackside-Structures-Build-Railroad-Handbook/dp/0890242194)
John Pryke’s “Building City Scenery for Your Model Railroad” (Kalmbach store: http://www.kalmbachstore.com/12204.html) has quite a few tips on city buildings.
I am sure there are many others as well.
Smile,
Stein
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Hi Frank. I have looked up some different buildings for you, maybe you are looking for some of these;
Railroad car shops, 4 different drawings with some pictures to help
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(railroad+stations))
Various railroad company buildings, viaducts, and misc
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(railroad+stations))
various railroad facilities, interlock towers, foundries, lots of stuff
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(railroad+stations))
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(railroad+stations))
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(railroad+stations))
Roundhouses
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(railroad+stations))
stations
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(railroad+stations))
There should be many buildings to keep you busy for awhile. All of the links have pictures, some also have drawings
Hello Tom,
only one link has an function, the first.
The other has error messages.
Thanks for your help
Frank
Add the missing )) to the end of the links, and they will work.
Smile,
Stein