Show me some pictures of your enginehouse

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I just finished the enginehouse and turntable for my T&T. I completed the ballasting of the track for the tracks leading into to enginehouse. Will start on the detailing tomorrow. Show me some pictures of your completed enginehouse. I want to see how you handled the detailing. Especially the junk. I’ll post pictures of my engine service area when it is done. - Nevin

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Here is a pretty standard one from the old IVRW:

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Nothing special about it, but the one on my current layout is as such:

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My point of this photo is that engine facilities might be very humble in terms of servicing engines. If a shortline is short enough or if you are low enough on space, try what I am doing: merely stick a water tower and coal dock at the end of a spur, and use the intervening space to do something else, like in my case: storage, off and on loading of cars, and passenger drop off.

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Here is a view of the turntable and engine house:

I have since added more details. Here is the engine service area on the approach track:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1698615&l=beda444462&id=1067838506

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Here are some pictures.

When still on the workbench.

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On the layout.

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The fellas at Seneca like to run a clean operation, so there’s no junk. They’re safety conscious, and scrap metal provides a few pennies to fuel the stationary plant.

However, this one rusty truck is waiting for the next clean-up day.

Otherwise, we try to keep it tidy.

Crandell

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Jalajoie,

Wow! That is beautiful! [Y][8D] Did you scratch build this or is this an actual kit? Very impressive.

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Yes it is scratch built not be me however. A friend did it for the club’s layout, I wish I could have only half of his talents.

I should have given credit to him in my first post, my bad I was in too much of a hurry.

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Here is what I accomplished this weekend. Still working on the detailing. Did all that ballasting and then covered everything in black oil! - Nevin

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Well… if you insist. How about one of those round ones from way back in the 1920’s?

This is the roundhouse at Hopewell Junction on the Seneca Lake, Ontario and Western.

and my Favorite!

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Your wish is my command…

And the interior

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One of my favorite pictures Bob, thanks for posting it again. [Y]

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Fully scratched from Evergreen sheet and strip stock, home made windows from the Xerox machine, lit with old locomotive light boards… I’ve since uprooted and sold it, and will soon replace it with this…

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Loosely based on the WM Hagerstown Roundhouse, it has 20 stalls and is based on parts from four Heljan kits. I’m hoping to have it installed sometime later this year…

Lee

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This is a two-stall engine house from IHC, I believe. I used cardstock to line the interior walls, and printed a cinderblock pattern on the cardstock with my computer.

This is an Atlas 3-stall roundhouse. Again, I used cinderblocks-printed-on-cardstock to line the interior walls. I built some workbenches and tool bins out of wood coffee stirrers, and used scrap plastic sprue from the kit for piping. The wood plank floor is also coffee stirrers. I added a few figures and some barrels.

There are a few 1967 Playboy centerfolds over the toolbench on the back wall. Political correctness didn’t exist back then, and many male-only places like car repair shops often featured such artwork.

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Enola diesel shops of the PRR/Conrail in N scale:

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My engine facility: A section of plywood with an unopened Walthers 90ft turntable on it![:$] LOL btw,

jalajoie, That enginehouse is amazing! more pics please

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Jack, do you think your friend would be willing to share his info as to what items he used, techniques, etc. to build that locomotive shop? It is incredible. If you or he have more photos of this shop, please consider posting them on this or a new thread.

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My engine house is one of the few models to migrate from the old 4.6 BRVRR layout. It is a mostly stock IHC kit. The building is lighted and there is a shadow pit inside, but little else. I have an Evan Designs LED lighting group that simulates electric welding to install one of these days.

Its not much but it suits my purpose.

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Ray, what company’s coal tower is that?

Joe

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Hi Joe,

That is the Walthers Wooden Coal tower kit (plastic).

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-2922

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