My dad built this scratchbuilt station from a pattern by Ideal corp. It was cardboard and had printed doors and windows, with black lines to indicate the clapboard siding. He used clapboard wood and cut out all the windows and doors and faced them with 1/32" balsa. The door knobs were straight pins cut to size. It now is the focal point on a 6 x 12' layout in our clubhouse at an active adult community in Barnegat NJ. The Ideal station was named Prarie Crossing, but we named this one Barnegat Junction. Don't have a very high tech camera, but did the best I could with a digital Cannon. Check out the lady at the far right of the station in the phone booth. That shows how old it is, there are no phone booths around anymore. One of our train riders has fallen down on the station platform, not enough glue on his shoes. LOL Hope you like the job my dad on this scratch built station in 1960. It needed a new coat of paint, but otherwise it was in great shape. Al in Barnegat NJ
52 year old scratchbuilt station
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We've got one of the older members in my club that's been printing and making cardstock buildings for a long time. Builds the wall thickness up layer upon layer to give the window and door openings depth. Mostly does w/board structures and to make the boards stand out he cuts along the lines with a hobby knife held at a bit of an angle so it lifts the edge to create the impression of an overlap between upper and lower boards. His prototype is of course early Queensland in the "Queenslander" style (timber clad walls, corrugated galv iron roofing, raised on 6' high timber stumps and with wide verandahs around at least 2 sides). The roofing was made from thickish aluminum foil, cut to represent sheets and passed through a specially made scale roller to create the corrugations.
He always had a small stand at our annual show where he built his "kits" and gave away colored printed sheets of buildings to cut out, to entertain the kids and hopefully get some interested.
He always had a small stand at our annual show where he built his "kits" and gave away colored printed sheets of buildings to cut out, to entertain the kids and hopefully get some interested.
Actually the lamposts look as though they might be suffering the effects of "Sandy" (could be why that blokes lying down). A couple of the other passengers seem to be either leaning with the wind or bracing themselves against it, but the building is obviously made of sterner stuff. 
You're right, the bloke on the platform actually had too much to drink and as for the lamp posts, they were hit by a derailing train. We have a club member that has to run the train at 100 miles an hour, so derailments are enevitable. Makes for a lot of work when we have to fix up what we already have made, but that' life working on the railroad.
If it's an analog system, just put a voltage limiting resistor on the wires coming from the powerpack to the track. That will slow down Mario Andretti.
