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Does Anyone Recognize this SP Depot Kit?

Modeling
#1

Hello, i am a total newbie and wish to build a non-specific but generically satisfactory Southern Pacific depot, the type with a four-panel door, four-over-four sash windows in a bay, and … well, there were hundreds at one time and many of them still exist as railway museums and even depots, so some of you will surely know what i am talking about.

Okay, so i found this on Ebay. It is painted in SP colours and would work for my needs, but appears to be broken, badly glued, wrecked. On the other hand, it is REAL CHEAP and no one is bidding.

Do any of you recognize this building as a kit by maker name / model number? In other words, could i buy a less broken version rather than buy this one and hope to fix it?

#2

Hmm…never seen anything like that.

Well, except this model in N-scale looks sort of like it…

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/thejoat/Structures/depot.gif)(Ignore the zoom)

Any chance to get pictures of all 4 sides? It doesn’t look too bad to me. But, I’m sure that is just me; however, that’s the only perspective I really know.

Speaking of knowing stuff, before I even bid on it, I’d make sure of the dimensions - it could be another scale and I don’t see anything that gives any reference to size. In fact, the walls don’t look thick enough to be a G-scale model.

It looks repairable (at least to me), assuming all the parts are there. Windows and doors are most critical, since I suspect you really don’t want to make your own.

G scale buildings can be rather pricy, and that looks like it could be big.

Before you bid, you want to make sure you would be comfortable repairing it. Something like this needs a good exterior glue (E6000 is my preference, but others like Goop). You might need some clamps to hold it together. Also, it might need re-painting. Home Depot and Lowes both sell sample size paints you can have custom mixed. It looks like the window glazing is missing, but you can easily make some out of acrylic - you can get sheets that are thin enough to cut with scissors and it will last forever.

Decisions, decisions. :wink:

#3

The building next to it says “Lionel” on the tag.
Probably both “O” scale :wink:
Ralph

#4

That is a HO scale station and the molds for HO and N-scale have been around long time. They have been sold under a lot of brands. It would be a great station to build a copy in large scale.

#5

That is Lionel’s Rico, Colorado station (D&RGW) in 0 Scale (1:48). See the 0 gauge SP profile 0 gauge caboose in the first photo. That might even be Marxx caboose, too.

I’ve never seen that station made in Large Scale, commercially.

The grey building is an engine house in 0 scale, also by Lionel.

I have both of them.

#6

I have one, it was called “Rico Station” by AHM.

#7

Thanks, folks!

The Ebay seller had it listed as “large scale G-Scale?” –

Model Railroad Train buildings and structure large scale G scale? Depot

I am very glad that y’all have set me straight and saved me some major frustrations, I am sorry to have to let it go by, as i kinda fell in love with it, but such is life.

That Ebay lot, by the way, contains many more buildings and the price is a whopping $22.50 at this time.

#8

Awaiting page 3 so we can discuss Steve’s silent Lionel fetish !

BTW …Welcome Catherine !

#9

David Russell said:

Awaiting page 3 so we can discuss Steve’s silent Lionel fetish !

BTW …Welcome Catherine !

'Snot silent. Loud and Proud, Bro!

#10

Well, David and Steven, i too have a Lionel fetish – but alas, no more Lionel trains. There was a divorce, and a trade in which Fiesta ware and Roseville pottery and blown-glass figural Christmass tree ornaments were offset against Lionel trains and Stanley tools.

The new, improved husband cares not for Lionel trains nor Stanley tools, indulges a blessed passion for blown glass figural Christmas ornaments, and has the merest passing interest in Fiesta ware and Roseville – but knows how to garden and to care for fancy chickens … and so we play to our greatest strengths.

In my mind’s eye, the Lionel trains run eternally beneath the permanent Christmas tree of my vanished middle age, and if i close my eyes, i can see them still … but the better choice now is to build a larger train out in the wider world of dwarf pomegranates and azaleas!

Somehow i will get my own Rico Station…

I wonder if i can pay someone to copy it in G-Scale …?

#11

Here are couple people that have some stuff, Cat.

http://www.rainbowridgekits.com/

http://www.scaleartmodels.com/

http://spjrr.com/sp/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=49&zenid=urnckb9dv4aifp2qu8mu2gcvq0

Just a few. As always the more you have someone else do the more it will cost you. Good Luck

#12

More commercial modeler’s work.

I have seen his sand house on an RGS layout and it was PERFECT.

Pacific Garden Railway Supply: http://mysite.verizon.net/bryie/pcgrs/id35.html

While he doesn’t seem to have a Rico Station he has some others, and may be encouraged to do a Rico for you.

Please take progress pics as we LOVE pics!

#13

Cat, Dennis Rayon built the below station for Rodney Edington, one of our members. It is built with the flavor of the D&RGW stations, but is not modeled after any one specific station.

(http://imageshack.us/a/img7/9269/534z.jpg)

(http://imageshack.us/a/img820/5210/sv5e.jpg)

(http://imageshack.us/a/img94/8352/8ien.jpg)

(http://imageshack.us/a/img19/5249/ppf2.jpg)

You can follow the build log here.

#14

Jake, Don, and Steve –

Thanks for the links and pictures. I am busily compiling a serious list of SP depots in California that were in the range of looks i am after.

Here is Jesse Fuller in 1958, when he was a worker on the SP, at an unknown SP station probably near Los Angeles.

(http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2013-04/1366056682_jesse-fuller.jpg)

And here is one of the surviving SP depots of that era – but obviously not the same one: This is at Chico, California:

(http://farm1.staticflickr.com/237/457017727_e53e9cdc72_z.jpg)

I am only going for the “look,” not for a specific station.

I found this item in an online catalogue – but it was listed as “out of stock” alas:

Pola-LGB 907 Canyon City Station G-Scale

(http://www.grahamstrains.com/store/files/t_3522.jpg)

http://www.grahamstrains.com/store/product.php?productid=3522&cat=33&page=9

These stations are similar to, but not the same as, a whole lot of other late Victorian and Ewardian SP depots in California:
Agnew
Belmont
Benicia
Centerville
Coalinga
Danville Standard Plan No. 18.
Drawbridge
Goleta
Hayward
Irvington
Los Gatos
Menlo Park
Millbrae
Moorpark
Mount Shasta
Mowry
Newark
Niles
Oceano
Orange
Palms
Pleasonton
Ravenna
Salton
San Joaquin
San Leandro
San Ramon
Santa Susana
Somis
Sunol
Tescott
Walnut Creek
Warm Springs
Weed
Whittier
Woodland
et cetera.

#15

Catherine, Just what scale are you going to be modeling in? 1:20.3, 1:22.5, 1:24, 1:29, or 1:32 ?

#16

Dave, i am kinda “loose” about scale. I will be running Bachmann Big Haulers and am playing with options of structures and figures. My basic preference would be 1:22.5, to match the trains, but i have seen layouts on youtube that utilize a mix of 1:20.3 and 1:22.5 and still manage to hang together.

  1. I expect to put “like with like” – small people with smaller structures, bigger people with bigger buildings, and so forth.

  2. Part of the layout will run along a planter bed that is 6 feet deep and contains a band of mature trees and rosebushes alongside a 6’ tall wooden fence that marks our property line. Structures in that area will only be viewable from one side, which means that tricks of forced perspective can be applied, with smaller structures and smaller people placed nearer to the fence, as if in the vanishing distance.

#17

catherine yronwode said:

  1. I expect to put “like with like” – small people with smaller structures, bigger people with bigger buildings, and so forth.

  2. Part of the layout will run along a planter bed that is 6 feet deep and contains a band of mature trees and rosebushes alongside a 6’ tall wooden fence that marks our property line. Structures in that area will only be viewable from one side, which means that tricks of forced perspective can be applied, with smaller structures and smaller people placed nearer to the fence, as if in the vanishing distance.

…
Catherine Y.
We have done about the same thing. If have a chance, we have over 100 videos that some of ours trains can get lost for a few min.

http://www.youtube.com/user/noelw71/videos?shelf_index=2&view=0&sort=dd

You’ll find out like others that your R.R. will never get done.
You are hooked and welcome to our Hobbys…

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/noelw/Logo/Ani2.gif)(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/noelw/Logo/wigwag.gif)

#18

Noel, I have been watching your videos and i sure do like your style of work. The animated figures are slick!

I hope to meet you some day, up Rio Linda way. I am in West Sonoma County, little town called Forestviile.