The Central City 1899 Brick Depot in C&Sn3. A Bucket List Project.

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

OK Now on to the Depot Worksheets.

Note that on Page 1 of the Valuation Field Notes that it says "White Brick Trimmings".

Rick

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

[Rick Steele]

Since I drew this up for an article that ran in the Gazette

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I hand painted the one now in Silver Plume (along with the Station and Elevation Signs that are now there)

This ought to save you some work

[Rick Steele]

I hope that all this helps.

Rick

[Jim Courtney]

Wow, wow, wow, Rick!

Thanks so much, just about all the information one would need to rebuild the depot in 1:1 scale.

This will be so useful--exact platform dimensions (I'm going to used stained basswood instead of the printed platform).

And all the other details, especially the 1899 electric light fixtures. I'll have to figure out how to make them with 1.5 volt mini-bulbs. An interior is now essential. I'm especially relieved to find that I only have to apply 2,164 shingles to the depot roof.

Now I also have the dimensions and construction of the ash pit, and a wealth of detail about the section house and old depot. Even the depot privy dimensions are noted. It's going to take days to read and absorb all this information.

The icing on the cake is the C&S train bulletin sign--anyone here, who wishes to build any C&S depot, could use that detail.

If this project falls through and the model is never built (thermonuclear war could always interrupt construction), this thread is accumulating a wealth of information about the little depot for future reference, for any who might visit here, as long as the internet and Nabble exist. Thanks to all who are contributing . . .

[Dave Eggleston]

I add a big thank you and wow wow wow to go along with Jim's! Now I know that the original grounded boxcar (ex CCRR) was a sand shed, the other boxcar a tool shed, and have dimensions for each. The dirt-covered foundation behind what is called the bunk house (but we have always called the old brick section house) is a true cellar with verified dirt roof--we finally have confirmation! And the old brick depot is a section house at this point. We know the cinder pit dimensions. And on and on and on...

Thanks so much! This answers some really great questions for those of us interested in details beyond the new station.

[Chris Walker]

Does Rick have anything to add on the middle structure between the Sectionhouse and Ticketoffice at all?

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[Jim Courtney]

Dave noted:

Now I know that the original grounded boxcar (ex CCRR) was a sand shed, the other boxcar a tool shed, and have dimensions for each.


Explains this photo that I found in the Abbott/McCoy Gilpin Era book:




At the bottom center frame is the tool house, painted in a light color (perhaps the grey as on the Como depot??). It looks like a UP built 27 foot boxcar body, the spotting feature is the rectangular poling pocket / corner iron at the bottom of the right corner. Only a tiny bit of the end fascia is visible, but it has the typical UP built arch.  Edit: The work sheet shows a structure that is 24 feet long--the last group of CC 24' boxcars were built by the UP as well and also had these features.

The other boxcar body must be the sand house. Note the three rectangular cutouts on the roof (Abbott referred to this as the coal house); a car of locomotive sand could be spotted on the mainline and sand shoveled through the roof. I haven't yet identify the other structures from Rick's documents. The photo is some time in the first decade--the loaded coal car opposite the sand house is one of the 4 board St Charles coal cars of late 1898 order.

Chris, if there is a description of the building between the two brick section house / bunkhouses, it would be on the last tow images on the last page or the first image on this page. Could this be the coal house (for human use? would be a logical placement.

[Chris Walker]

While you're having at this, then you'd need an appropriate vehicle of the times

[Rich Rands]

Chris, where is the photo from? Would make a good kit.
Rich Rands
Berkshire Valley

[Jim Courtney]

Chris, where is the photo from? Would make a good kit.
Rich Rands
Berkshire Valley

It would make a great kit!! But please produce it in S scale as well, not just HO and O! The brick depot could use an Adams Express delivery wagon . . .