Marlon,
Looks like Wiking made one of those Vettes, Walthers has one of them listed…
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/781-81904
All, I don’t think I have one of those stations/depots, I’m sure I’ll see them everywhere now…
I’ve used it at my module Silicon Valley:
Wolfgang
A tribute to the good basic tool and die work done for Atlas all those many years ago. Not as popular these days perhaps, but the Atlas water tank (which has a PRR prototype) is also an old reliable. Ditto for their lumber yard building. The late Art Curren did a wonderful kitbash on the lumber yard.
If memory serves the prototype for the Atlas depot was Chicago & North Western. I also seem to recall that the Revell depot,
http://hoseeker.net/revellinformation/Revell1958infopage07.jpg
(which as you can see is similar but not identical to the AHM depot, which has two dormers)
http://hoseeker.net/ahminformation/ahmcatalog1979page18.jpg
was a C&NW prototype. The North Western not only had small commuter depots stretching out from Chicago, but had tons of small depots in small towns throughout the upper midwest so there were and are lots of CNW prototypes to choose from for small town depots. Many follow a standard plan but not all.
Dave Nelson
If you look closely at the photo I posted earlier, just beyond the station is an Atlas water tank!
Marlon
It’s a 1957 by Modelpower. I got it and a few other cars and trucks all brand new for $4.00 a pop at a train show.
Thanks for everyone’s contributions. I really like some of the paint jobs and other improvements.
Brent[C):-)]
I always thought that the Atlas station was based on a New York Central prototype (maybe on the Putnam Division?), and that was a good-enough reason for me to like it. [swg] Atlas did a great job on the die work, and it’s a very suitable size for the 4’x8’ layouts that were prevalent at the time of its release. My around-the-room style freelanced layout is meant to represent a secondary line in southwestern Ontario in the '30s, so the small size and “wood” construction is very apt and it’s used as the “standard” small town station. I currently have two in service, with another two painted and ready for placement when I get around to building the second level of the layout.
Here’s the one in South Cayuga:
…and the one in Elfrida. This one’s on a different railroad, but uses the same colours as it’s under the same corporate umbrella as the first. This station replaced the original, which burned down some years ago.
The station at Lowbanks is similar to the Elfrida station which burned down, but it still got a coat of the latest ow
Have one. Sister lives in Montreal bought a box of kits at a yard sale.
I would be curious to know how much kits Atlas did produce.
Got mine since my high school days. She visited all my layout and their reincarnation. I repainted “her” in the late 50’s QRL&P color scheme. I thought about getting rid of it, but even if it’s an over-used model, I still think she got a particular north american feeling about it. Don’t bother about the roof platform. The LED lighting system is currently being rebuilt.
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Poking fun at our mayor and his tramway project (newspaper clipping on the wall).
Doesn’t have the classic water tank though… But got the old IHC and Helljan kits.
I guess Rico Station and Revell Station are second and third best after Atlas…
Matt
Hello, this little sation kit was a birthday present from my step-dad.
Les Méchins is a little village (on the way to Gaspé) where my mother was born.
Enjoy and have a nice day.
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Thinking of getting one. What is the footprint of the station itself?
The stock kit only has a covered platform on one side. It’s 4 1/8" x 9". The covered platform itself is about 4" long, so the station building is about 4 1/8" x 5".
Wayne,
What colors did you use on your station? It looks very close to the colors I remember and want to use on my stations.
Thank you,
Richard
Those stations (along with a lot of diesels, passenger cars, and other structures) were painted with Polly S (not PollyScale) military colours, applied with a brush. The wainscotting was Dark Blue-Gray, the other grey was Equipment Gray - Light, and the green Dark Weapon Olive. While I still have some of all the original colours on-hand, a very close match for the darker grey is BAR Gray from Pollyscale (Oops! While it’s in a larger bottle like PollyScale, it’s still a Polly S colour.[banghead] Check PollyScale for BAR Gray, as Polly S, PollyScale and Floquil were all from the same company.) Ditto for the green: the replacement I have is also Polly S in a larger bottle - try PollyScale’s Depot Olive. My replacement for the light grey is PollyScale: L&N Gray.
Here are the only diesels I have left still in the double grey and green:
…and a steam loco with green cab and tender to match the cars she pulled:
Most towers (even if they’re no longer serving their original function) get the same paint, as do watchman’s shanties at all public crossings:
…and a couple of cabooses are still in green:
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The original:
Eventually it got a new roof:
Nick
Nick
Where’s the chimney. Your passengers are going to get cold waiting for their train. Ebenezer would be proud.[(-D]
Brent[C):-)]
An earlier post in this thread speculated that this is a C&NW prototype.
i had no idea, so I would have believed that. However, earlier this year there was an article in Railpace magazine about a Norfolk & Western branch in — I think — Virginia that had a photo of a small smation that I could have sworn was the Atlas one! unfortunately I did not keep the magazine or cut the picture out.
I agree enthusiastically with all the kudos that it is an incredibly nice and also — given the number of possibilities for kitbashing it — an incredibly versatile model
I don’t have the little Atlas station on my layout, but like Dr. Wayne, I have one of the Atlas water tanks. This one is at Bassett’s at the foot of the Sierra Buttes. It’s the third layout for this nifty little critter that I bought sometime in the 1980’s.
Tom
My iteration of this station places at the end of the Broadway Line in New York City.
At the moment it is a stand in until I can build something more like the real thing, but as a stand it it does quite well, and so its replacement is not a high priority, although touching up the scene is.