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Inherited some buildings

General Discussion
#1

The house across the street continues to be a source for railroad items. Several years ago when my long-time neighbor was in the hospital for the last time, he gifted me with hundreds of video tapes (Ralph is still sorting through some of them), a large library of books and several 1:1 artifacts. Sadly, he passed before returning home. His home was sold and for the past 3 years or so a friendly father and son team have been remodeling and enlarging it. The son moved in last winter. This evening he knocked on my door. His grandfather was an LGB enthusiast and passed several months ago. Hugh has been selling off locomotives and cars on eBay for the estate, but he didn’t think his collection of buildings was salable due to size and condition. He offered them to me. Since the C.V.S.Ry. is basically void of structures, I happily accepted. He also mentioned that there was a bunch of brass track that he’ll bring by when he gets it sorted out :smiley: Here’s what Hugh brought over. If I had to guess I’d say they are Pola, but I have no idea for sure. An Alpine house ?

A beautiful water tower. Looks like it was operational once. Spout hinge is broken…

A large station…

A small station or freight house. I think this could be easily “Americanized”…

A church. I’m thinking this may end up as a caricature of The Guthrie Center…

A Post Office? Easily converted to a small station. Love the standing seam roof…

Definitely some kit-bash fodder here, and some usable with just a little TLC. Thanks Hugh :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

#2

I’ll cut them up for ya’ Jon…good stuff
:wink:

#3

Nice treat. :slight_smile:

#4

Nice Jon. Be good to get some structures on the RR.

#5

Yes all appear to be Pola.

I have the water tower and church. Really nice.

The tank spout doesn’t look broken to me, although I can’t really see the hinge all that well.

That rubber hose feeds into the tank spout. A little tricky feeding it in there. But one done, liquid will flow out it when you load the tank and lower the spout.

#6

Matt appears to be right on the water tower–I have a similar Aristo model and it’s the same way. Spout hinge looks like all the Polas I’ve seen.

#7

Jon,

Yes the water tank is operable. I built this kit back in 1986 or 1987. Great little model and functional. Quite expensive in it’s day. I think I paid over $100plus for the kit THEN. Good deal for you.

#8
Matt said:
Yes all appear to be Pola.

I have the water tower and church. Really nice.

The tank spout doesn’t look broken to me, although I can’t really see the hinge all that well.

That rubber hose feeds into the tank spout. A little tricky feeding it in there. But one done, liquid will flow out it when you load the tank and lower the spout.


The hinge is broken. I stuck it back on the pin for the picture. I don’t think repair would be difficult.

I figured as much about the tube. The roof comes off for filling. Not sure why you would want to put water in it uness you had an LGB tank car to put the water in.

#9

I plan to use the tank and the post office (less mailbox & sign) as is outside at at Pine Summit. But, with a hurricane coming within the next 48 hours or so I decided now is not the right time to start putting buildings outside. So I started searching for space to store them. Several found temporary homes on the Indoor Division where they look right at home (if you ignore the background and non-scale items cluttering the train board). The Tank found a very temporary home at Willow Hill…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Post2/Buildings-07.JPG)

The Post Office, now just a small station, found a temporary home a few feet down the track guarding Meadow Gap Bridge…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Post2/Buildings-08.JPG)

The small station fit right in at Honey Grove where it may stay for a while…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Post2/Buildings-09.JPG)

The Alpine House found a spot in Honey Grove which has suddenly become a town :D…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Post2/Buildings-10.JPG)

Long shot of Honey Grove and the yards at Tyrone…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Post2/Buildings-11.JPG)

#10

I’ll chime in on the water tank. I too have one on the layout. It was my first purchase when /I started on G scale.

#11

This message is in two parts because I hit return!

I was saying I glued the roof down so ours winds wouldn’t carry it off.

And speaking of glue. I just got an old schoolhouse of the same era. It needed regluing. I found that plastic challenging because it had been glued before. It became a war with the building and I finally resorted to using the PVC cement I use on plumbing! That worked!

#12
Doug Arnold said:
[i][/i]It needed regluing. I found that plastic challenging because it had been glued before. It became a war with the building and I finally resorted to using the PVC cement I use on plumbing! That worked!
Good to know. I have lots of roofs (or is it rooves ?) that need to be put back on. I decided the large station will get Americanized by getting rid of the tile roof and replacing it with a simple gabled roof made from either acrylic or aluminum laminate. This is a long-term project.
#13

I use Weld-On #16 for acrylic and Piko/Pola refurbs. Works really good. Sort like high viscosity MEK in a tube. That German plastic can be a you know what to glue. To do roofs, I use Goop from Big Lots @ $3.50 a tube. Easy to work with and hardens real good. Not recommended for structural stuff like walls and mounting building to plastic or acrylic bases. Just my thoughts. I have run adhesion tests of just about every glue known to man at the Skunk Works refurbing and bashing the buildings for my brother.

#14

Thanks Mike. I think I have a tube of Weldon 16 in stock.

#15

That won’t be near as messy as my cement and it won’t dry BLUE!

#16

I’m resurrecting this old thread from 2011.

Up to now, none of these buildings ever made it out of storage placement on the Indoor layout. I thought they were too European as-is and I haven’t been motivated to change that. I also was never very excited about structures in the garden.

That all changed this spring with the addition of an Engine House and a derelict station. Now I kinda like the look of having a few buildings around.

So - last night I did a quick and dirty restoration job on the large station and church, gluing on parts that had fallen off using 3M Gasket and Weatherstrip adhesive which is a thick contact cement. This morning I was off from work, so I placed them in the garden at Coal Dump Curve. I’ll take and post some new photos this evening.

#17

Glad the look of buildings is growing on ya Jon. They are great to have because they bring everything to life especially when trains are not running. Throw some lights inside and it will add life to the railroad on those long winter nights, unless everything is buried in snow.

#18

OK - Got out there and took a bunch of pictures. Here’s the best 7.

Front view looking toward the track just above at Coal Dump Curve. On the large station I clipped off the funky signal mast making it into a vent and took the German station name off the sign board. The church bell support was pretty busted up, so I just eliminated the exposed bell…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/post4/Buildings_07-17-14_01.JPG)

Looking downgrade from Indian Hill…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/post4/Buildings_07-17-14_02.JPG)

Looking upgrade from around Wall Station…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/post4/Buildings_07-17-14_03.JPG)

Back across the track at Coal Dump Curve. Missing tiles from some of the peaks on this side was replaced with burgundy vinyl. The hole for a missing chimney was covered with flat black vinyl…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/post4/Buildings_07-17-14_04.JPG)

The base under the chuch was cut from 6mm Black PVC board…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/post4/Buildings_07-17-14_05.JPG)

Front view at ground level. The base was made from a piece of 10mm Coroplast painted with gray primer…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/post4/Buildings_07-17-14_06.JPG)

I really like how these fit into the existing trees and ground cover…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/post4/Buildings_07-17-14_07.JPG)

Thanks for looking!

#19

Nice! Looks like they belong there, and have been there forever.

#20

Those buildings look great, Jon. They fit in really well with their surroundings.

-Kevin.