Joe, that is the Lionel reproduction of the American Flyer Terminal that was the companion to the American Flyer passenger station. The Lionel reproduction of the station is next to the terminal. Lionel released those two pieces about 3 or 4 years ago.
Something that I have been working on for the last couple of days is this S-scale model of the old Milwaukee depot in Moline, IL.
That’s right, it’s gingerbread. I constructed it for the local Festival of Trees, an annual holiday event put on by the local arts council.
This is the prototype.
I omitted the front and side bump-out entrances, since my research showed that they are not original to the depot. They were added in the '60s or '70s when the building was being used as offices for a local business. Unfortunately the structure is on the list of endangered species. It’s in the path of a new Interstate bridge over the Mississippi River that is to be built in the next several years.
Well I went to K-Mart and then FREDS today and found these JD trucks and tractors that even thou didn’t give scale size as some do they looked about right size for the trains now I put them on a scale PS-4 Flat car . Think it came out okay need to get more chain thou. bought one truck at K-Mart as it was only one left they still had like 4 dozers and 3 tractors but then got to Freds and they were a dollar cheaper and they only had 2 trucks and 2 tractors so bought all 4 so now have 3 trucks and 2 tractors there a mixure of diecast and plastic basicly the yellow is diecast and the other colors are plastic. to me decent looking loads.
Rest of you all great pics one day I might finally get a layout going but in mean time have to many irons going in the fire althoug plant to start soon but will see in time.
The Ertl John Deere construction toys are usually 1:50 scale. Just a hair smaller than O-Scale. Oddly enough their farm toys are built to a scale of 1:64, perfect for S-Scale. Why Ertl adopted two different scales, one for construction and one for agricultural equipment, I do not know.
Thanks for the info did see some tractors but to me tractors come in all sizes so they could work also. especially if went to the non scale O-27 trains as I have both scale and non scale.
