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Yep - definitely the same proportions and functionality, Jim. If I don't like what I end up with, I could start over.
While I was watching baseball last night I mostly finished two of the four sides. I still need to figure out some rafter supports - I may resort to some plastic there.
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10-09-2025, 04:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2025, 04:42 PM by jim currie.)
sounds like you got some time on your hands try this link and type in what type of railroad structure you want. Looks like a good start could never build anything out of paper we have a silverfish infestation.
Jim
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A Silverfish invasion would certainly be bad news for my layout.
I've been working on a 8-mm VCR over the last couple of days - trying to make the thing operational by buying a parts machine. Trouble is, you never know if the parts you want are still in good shape. In this case? 2 days of futility and I've come to the realization that 30-year-old plastic parts just aren't going to hold up much longer. Sony doesn't stock the parts and the leftovers are cracking too. Time to junk her. Another refugee of the disposable goods economy.
After that frustration, I got back to some building of the White Haven LVRR station. The four exterior walls have been completed aside from some detail work and foundation adds on three of the sides. In preparation for the roof, I built one of 32 of the rafter trusses (equilateral triangle-shaped truss in the center of the photo) that will support the extended roofline on each long side of the building. Each truss is made from six pieces of sliced paper siding glued back to back. Tedium x 32!
Several loading docks and steps from the doorways will also have to be built, and all of the corners will get corner trim after assembly. The roof fascia boards on the prototype have scalloped edges. I don't think I want to drive myself nuts doing that, but I may....
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Installed some of the detail trim and joined the four sides together. Next, I'll be reinforcing the structure internally to take some of the bow out of the middle before making those rafter trusses and installing some corner trim followed by the roof construction.
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looking like a good build, did at one time have some car kits that had cardstock printed sides like 60 years ago if memory serves me right, they were made by red ball don't know where they went.
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Haven't heard of Red Ball, Jim. I ran into Clever Models quite by accident. I was thumbing through an old Walthers catalog a few years ago looking for an engine house and saw a section devoted to their products and took a look. I've been hooked ever since. As long as I can print to my inkjet printer, I'm in business. The big plus for me is that you buy the designs and can print as many as you want - in the case of this particular project, I've drawn from 6 different models to pull in details that I'm using, and I've rescaled some other portions of files to produce individual components. When all is said and done, if you don't include glue, cardstock and ink, I paid about $2 for this station.
The marathon production of roof trusses is finally finished to include doing all of the edge work on each of these 30 rafter trusses. Ready for roof construction! I did put the corner details in and added internal reinforcement at the base and at the ceiling level. The sporadic roofline supports will give me something to glue the roof to. I may get to some of that tonight, but the next few days are full with visiting kids and grandkid as well as dear old dad being pulled into a prospective home inspection for my other son. Things should settle down by Monday night.
