In cleaning out my desk drawer I came across an email I sent to artist Bill Bunch whose depot illustration was the inspiration for the styrene depot I built a few years ago. In his note he prvided this link, which shows the depot after it head been cut in half and moved to Leadwood, MO, from Rock Springs. If you click on Rock Springs in the site’s extensive menu, you’ll see his illo.
Other good stuff to see there too.
Here’s the link: http://missouridepots.com/
Very helpful and interesting.
Thanks for the link Joe!
Slightly OT, but definitely plan-like, I’ve been trying to locate imagery and or plans of the now-defunct Mapleton log loading facility in Lane County, OR. It is the present-day location of one of the very few wigwam/bee-hive sawdust burners around, and in its heyday was a hive of industry of the logging kind. I found a single overhead photograph taken sometime in the forties of the whole facility, busily occupied, that was hanging on the wall of the Florence Pie & Ear Museum. Sadly, it was located way too high for me the capture it on my camera, and the older lady docent was in no fit state to climb up a ladder and tek it down for some nosey furner like me.
With a busy road/rail interchange, standard gauge and 3ft - big steam and Shays, loads of buildings reflecting the range of activities undertaken there, cranes and log recovery from the Siuslaw River along whose northern bank it lay, it would make a truly wondrous model in any scale.
Any ideas about where to find any more details?
Best to all
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Mo’s Restaurant Clam Chowder boys
Hiya Joe- there sure are lots of depots on that site. Unless you’re looking for a particular place it’s a beast to navigate, though… I sure wish he had thumbnails there so a guy could search through all those images & find a depot by its looks. I just thought of something: Ha! ha!
Missouri, right? He should Show Me! 
It’s amazing to think there were over a thousand - I think he said 1300 and change, depots in just the one state!
Tac, I’m sure someone will chime in to help sooner or later. John, yeah, them’s a lotta depots. What I did was go through all the A-s, figuring I’d knock off a letter each night, or when I feel inspired, or when my wife isn’t around to catch me messing around with trains at which point she begins to badger me about my for-pay automotive writing assignments.
BTW, after checking those depots, many of which are alike, I found about two I liked and one which was really unusual, for those who like something different. Frankly, I don’t know why I continue to collect depot plans and ideas, as I have a dandy one representing what is probably the best modeling I’ve done, and don’t need any more. And as for all them depots in Missouri (or Missoura, as they say), I guess they just like trains.
Joe Rusz said:
… BTW, after checking those depots, many of which are alike, I found about two I liked and one which was really unusual, for those who like something different. …
Point me to 'em, Joe, please! I’m on dialup, so a thorough search would take me months. But don’t let this request keep you from your role as an inkstained wretch. Do you use that expression, meaning writer, Stateside? …
BTW, the curse of “All depots looking alike” is something we have to deal with here in Canada, too, Bigtime…
CN and CP both having hundreds and hundreds of their “standard” stations… not very interesting to modellers, IMHO. Single-storey structures are of no interest to me at this point.
I’m hoping the depots you found are, for a start, more than just single storey structures. I’m looking for an interesting larger thru station, and a modest- sized terminus as well.
Thanks for the link!
Umm, “inkstained wretch” is too classy an expression around these parts where the Queen’s English is routinely abused, dude. BTW, I know several Canadian automotive journalists from Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, dere. Jim Kenzie was at the Toronto Star, I think, but the only other name I can recall right now is Jacques Duval from you-know-where. Saw him at the LA Auto show last November. Another FC I know, but haven’t seen is Marc La Chapelle, who/whom we drove to practically insanity on a trip to Le Mans several years ago. Me and John Phillips fromCar and Driver kept immitating the “Swinging Czechoslovakian Bachelors,” a skit from “Saturday Night Live.” I guess Marc thought we sounded like French Canadians and that we were mocking them, so he says, “I’m getting a little tired of your 'Loopy De Loop” bit.’ And we said the only appropriate thing: “Oh, shut up Marc!” Actually, Marc saved our hide when we walked into this restaurant where nobody spoke English by using Le (la?) langue Francais to order food.
I will find you a suitable, multiple story depot, but only from the A-s, as I am supposed to be “scribing.” Umm, just read the rest of your note. Yes, there are larger stations, but I didn’t pay much atttention to them 'cause they’re not for me. No termini, though (Hey, this is Missouri!). Oh, oh! I can see the posts coming now. 
John Le Forestier said:
I’m hoping the depots you found are, for a start, more than just single storey structures. I’m looking for an interesting larger thru station, and a modest- sized terminus as well.
Thanks for the link!
John,
The two story station I like is the one at Thurmond, West Virginia.
Perhaps a bit more than modest size…
That’s pretty good, Bruce. Handsome, too. The pic as it came down the pike to my desktop shows more at the back than here on the webpage, which cuts everything off past about 800 px wide. Maybe one day there’ll be an auto reduction feature or a bottom scrollbar…
The depot has a really nice narrow footprint, which is perfect in my case. I’m saving this pic for future reference; it could be just what I’m looking for…
Thanks!
Joe Rusz said:
Jim Kenzie was at the Toronto Star, …
Jim was (and is still?) a very fine writer. His column was the only thing I would ever read in that otherwise dreadful rag he appeared in, and I always enjoyed his wisdom and his insightful commentary. I always wondered why of all places he worked there; the rest of the paper was bumwipe, still is…
Not familiar with the other guys. I did LeMans, though, back in 1966 or '7, As a Europe-roving 18-year-old… I remember being impressed by the local constabulary, and their attitude towards unwashed hitch-hiking young culture-hounds, as they encouraged me to go and visit the next town down the road, immediately…
John,
Very narrow is an understatement for that depot! It’s only 25’ deep…
Here’s a site complete with plans: http://www.wva-usa.com/newsite/www.wvrailroads.com/drawings/thurmond-depot/
John, here’s one of those two story depots from the Missouri Depots site, Alma. I tried to cut and paste in the address, but it got losted.
I’ll get you some others soon.
Joe that’s a little BEAUTY !!! I’ve saved that picture and I love it. I’m gonna have me some mighty nice depots one day soon! Thanks for the link, Joe. These stations are going to be my summer rainy day projects.
If anybody out there has a good small terminus, please let me know. Thanks
Bruce Chandler said:
John,
Very narrow is an understatement for that depot! It’s only 25’ deep…
Here’s a site complete with plans: http://www.wva-usa.com/newsite/www.wvrailroads.com/drawings/thurmond-depot/
Needs to fit between the tracks.
Here is a link to Southern Pacific Station plans and photos. WE have an SP Common # 25 Depot here in Pleasanton, CA. It’s now a restaurant but still very much recognizable as a RR Station. See link below.
Excellent links, guys. Thanks!
