My winter project is to get stuff together to do a public layout at our antique machinery club’s spring show. As part of that I wanted to make several local landmark buildings. The most important one (to me) is a model of the old Baltimore and Ohio passenger station that used to be in Evans City, Pa. This station was actually in Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not’ as the only passenger rail station built completely over water. The station was built upon steel girders stretching over the Breakneck Creek, because the tracks ran too close to the waterway to do anything else. My grandpa tried, and ultimately failed, to save this station from demolition in the '70’s. Chessie wanted it gone NOW, and neglect, vandalism, and carpenter ants had made it too unstable to be moved.
The model is made from a corrugated plastic advertising sign scarfed from work, some 3" PVC pipe, and good old coffee stirrers. This is what it looks like after about 3 hours work.
NOW, I’m gonna pick you fellas brains. What is the easiest and/or cheapest way to: 1. continue those two belt lines around the turrets -and- 2. make those stepped cone “witch’s hat” roof pieces for the same. I’m on a real tight budget, so the windows and doors will be painted on with basswood trim, rather than using Grandt type stuff. But I’d still like it too look fairly nice from about 6-7 feet away.
