Restoring Ken Brunt's Hesperus station

[rmccown-admin (Bob McCown (Admin))]

I was lucky enough to get two stations from Ken Brunt’s Estate. This one is his Hesperus station. I found some mention of it here (in his Dolores station build from 2009) but the pictures are long-gone since his domains have expired.

It’s sturdy, but needs a bit of care. I’ve reattached various corner supports. The roof will get a new coat of paint and weathering. I might build some light boxes for some of the windows.

And I’m building a large platform for it to sit on. It will end up at Williamsport.

I’m printing up some station signs for it.

I hope to have this in place this weekend.

[ctown2 (Craig Townsend)]

What’s the core made out of? PVC?

[rmccown-admin (Bob McCown (Admin))]

Coroplast and 1/8 acrylic. The building would be incredibly light, but he added a few pieces of 1x6 PVC as a base to act as weight.

[Rooster]

That’s awesome…Thank you!

[rmccown-admin (Bob McCown (Admin))]

These will work nicely.

[JRad (Jon Radder)]

So glad this station will live on at your RR. I still have “Radder’s Mill” outdoors on my severed main line. It no longer lights up as I removed to power supply a few weeks ago. For lighting I simply coated the underside of the roof with some orange and yellow vinyl then pointed a cool white LED at it to reflect the color.

Ken’s buildings were built pretty simply, but look great.

[rmccown-admin (Bob McCown (Admin))]

Station signage in place. Still need to find some replacement advertising posters.

And sitting in place on the frame for the station platforms. I need to spend some quality time with the table saw and some cedar boards.