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Union Pacific freight station drawings
Don’t often see many UP structures in SoCal-mostly modellers do only SP
Interesting. I was also looking at this exact plan from the June 1967 issue of Model Railroader.
Looks like a great little project for the winter months. I don’t model UP but it would look good for a BNSF station.
I thought I recognized that station! It was in the very first issue of MR I ever bought. It’s not often one sees buildings from that period in hobby magazines, so I am sure many modelers will like it. I’m happy to see the drawings in N scale, as conversion from HO can be a pain if all one is using is a typical photocopier; 54.4 percent is a poor number to round up or down, and detail can be obscured if first halving the HO drawing and then copying the result at 109 percent. (Of course, larger drawings are usually better, and beside the fact that HO is the most common scale, HO drawings fit better inside the pages of MR and similar magazines.) My preference is for S scale drawings, which for N scale are reduced to 40 percent, but that’s personal only. Even when reducing drawings, it’s good to have copies of the larger originals on hand. This matter has been discussed often in MR, and as I recall MR generally starts with 1:24 drawings and then photographically – digitally today, I suppose (and CAD software likely made an appearance long ago) – reduces them to the scale in which the drawings will actually be printed.
Excellent article…
Very very good!!!..
Didn’t care for this issue. Nother I can use in it. I liked the
scratch building article. But like it to be older.
How can I OR can I convert the drawing to o scale?
I’d like to answer the question "How do you convert this drawing to O Scale?. I found that by coping the HO scale drawing on to a plain piece of paper and then taking it to your local copy center ( mine is Staples) they will print a full side copy in O Scale by increasing the size by 3.333. You must follow the permission statements and if there is a copyright they will not make the copy. Great article with lots of building instructions.
thank you for the planes it just ok
might be able to convert a little to suit my needs…
On the plan, they have included conversion factors to get the plan printed in HO, S, and O. MR has been doing this for years. They also include on the page a statement giving permission for the non-commercial photocopying of their drawings for personal use, at least in most articles.
Ash Bence From Australia [vic]
Thanks for the plan of the UP freight station.
regards ash