Who utilizes depots on their layouts? I have one and it is a maintenance office for the crew. I model the rock island.
I also have a small wooden depot on my industrial switching layout…You see it was moved from its old location on Railroad St. to the industrial park…It serves as a railroad theme restaurant…[:D]
We have three that are still used as active passenger train stops on the club layout, because members are free to model whatever line and era they want.
I have two. A Old AHM Rico passenger station and a AHM Freight station. They form the Passenger, mail and less than car load componet of my road.
I do. My layout plans call for like 10 to 12 of them. I have 4 in my inventory now.
James
I currently have one. Eventually I’ll have 3. 1 Passenger depot, 2 freight depots
I currently have a passenger depot. I plan to add a freight depot.
Have one passenger depot and plans for 2 passenger stations. i’m running out of room so i’m just putting platforms with amshacks next to them.
Andrew Miller
Who utilizes depots on their layouts?
A. People running Passenger Trains?
When I get some free time I have plans for 2 depots. I am going to duplicate the Ladysmith Wi. & the Fort Atkinson Wi. depot’s from scratch. The Ft. Atkinson depot was torn down around 1970. It was a neat structure to see way back then. "At least I thought so " PS; What’s a layout without a depot any ways?..Don’t tell me Ha Ha Ha.
I have one passenger depot on my layout. It serves 2 Amtrak trains a day.
I have not modeled the two trains yet due to cost but I just hung an Amtrak sign on the station.
Not necessarily just passenger. My freight depot is equipped with milk sheds to get milk from local farmers. And a team track for out sized freight.
I Still use one of my depots i havn’t decied if i’m gonna use the other
I have one depot with plans for another depot and a model of Santa Fe’s Oklahoma City passenger Station.
Ch
I will have 10. I’m running passenger operations along with freight operations. Running locals, expresses and run throughs requires quite a few stations. 5 are mainline,7 are branchline. The branch lines stations are both freight and passenger.
Have several. They come in very handy at the whistle stops on my 3 mainlines.
Some are passenger depots and others are for the freights. All are useful.
The depot on my layout serves as the RR’s headquarters and crew base–modern shortline economics.
Since I’m modeling a 1950-era railroad in “dark” territory, I’ll have one in every town. Right now, I’ve got three, and I’ll eventually have seven, including one Union station.
My rural farm theme 1940’s Erie layout will have only one small wooden depot simular to the old Erie depot in South Dayton, NY. I like your use of a depot Brakie, neat idea!! Also like the milk shed idea of Highiron’s, since I’m an old ex-dairy farmer of western NY state, back when we still kept two teams of work horses, even though we did have a couple of tractors (Johnny Popper B and an 8N Ford) [:)][:)] Those old John Deeres and steam locos had a lot in common. They both had two cylinders and both were real work horses. [(-D][(-D][(-D]
Never bought one, never saw one until I moved to ILLINOIS, I now know there was one in Pasadena, one in Riverside and Union Station in downtown LA. Might have made room for a Greyhound or Trailways terminal, recently have been tempted to put one trackside as a museum or restuarant. I can think of more airports than train stations in the area I model. Here I know Mendota, Princeton, Galesburg, and the closed station in Utica.