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Post by milgentrains on Nov 24, 2014 13:26:11 GMT -8
Hello all,
Is the Atlas Trainman #718 Branchline station kit patterned after an Pennsylvania prototype?
Steve
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2014 8:04:02 GMT -8
I am an unusual modeler in the fact that I have a wall full of railroad depots that I have built over the years. I like them more than E units and cabooses. New and accurate kits of depots end up on my workbench. Obsessed.....
The Atlas #718 looks a lot like a midwestern stucco-type of structure......I wish I could pin down the prototype. It might be a fantasy or an "artists concept".
The 718 looks a lot like a Wabash or possibly some other road from Ohio-Indiana-Illinois-Missouri. I have had one here for years and I was going to re-do the windows at some point. It is a neat kit that I wish I knew more about the possible prototype. I think that's why it is one kit I have never finished.
Keith Turley
Monrovia, California
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Post by riogrande on Nov 25, 2014 8:28:03 GMT -8
I used to see a lot of stucco in California where I grew up - it was everywhere, but since I moved to the Midwest and east, not so much. I assumed that stucco doesn't hold up in bad/cold/icy conditions, but I don't know for sure.
Jim
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2014 8:55:38 GMT -8
Stucco is not very common in the Midwest.....but, there were some structures built with it in the area. Railroad and non-railroad. Some of these were a stucco-type (think concrete with wire mesh) that looked like stucco.
I was born and raised around St. Louis and we had some on our farm and the neighbors and railroad did also as well. I helped construct and repair some of these buildings.
Keith Turley
Monrovia, California
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Post by edwardsutorik on Nov 25, 2014 9:43:00 GMT -8
The Official Home of the stucco depot is the Santa Fe. And all of the small stucco Santa Fe stations I found had a parapet roof (no overhang).
What someone, somewhere, could have done is take a typical wood station (which 718 looks like), staple some chicken wire and building paper over the walls, and apply stucco. It's a dumb idea, but I've seen it done to a building. Perhaps that happened on your (model) railroad.
I'm tending to think the model is a fake.
Ed
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Post by lajrmdlr on Nov 25, 2014 20:58:59 GMT -8
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Post by lvrr325 on Nov 26, 2014 3:51:09 GMT -8
Believe it or not that kit's tooling pre-dates Atlas. But who or when I've yet to find out. Someone on another board got one that is vintage, shiny plastic with the main walls a dark brown color and suspected it was Airfix, although that seems unlikely. Chances are if you can track down who originally offered it, you can then figure out if it's based on anything.
Most of Atlas's newer building kits are actually old, some of it stuff that was spun off at some point after Walthers bought Life-Like - the drive-through bank, car wash, fruit market, and contemporary diner were all LL kits. I just bought the bank for $8 at a show. And the other station they offer (Rural Station?), the one that somewhat resembles a DL&W wood station, has been offered as an IHC kit and before that an AHM kit. Picked up an IHC issue last year, sealed, for a whopping $5.
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Post by Christian on Nov 26, 2014 6:31:45 GMT -8
Believe it or not that kit's tooling pre-dates Atlas. But who or when I've yet to find out. Possibly Pola which made a /lot/ of easy to build kits imported way back when. Atlas still has some Pola kits. This station might be a European prototype that is "close enough" for the North American market. Just guessing, but isn't that why there is an internet?  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 7:15:03 GMT -8
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Post by alcoc430 on Nov 26, 2014 12:20:00 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 16:03:01 GMT -8
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Post by Amboy Secondary on Nov 27, 2014 11:21:18 GMT -8
Not for nothing, the OP was referring to the #718 model number station. Maywood, is #720 a Master Line model. Maywood station is on the Suzie Q. Another Atlas Master Line station, is the familiar # 706 which has been a staple on layout(s) for years.There is also a # 716 Rural station, in their Trainman line in addition to the # 718, Branchline Station.. I cannot find photos of the Trainman line of Structures on the Atlas Web site. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2014 12:24:10 GMT -8
Not for nothing, the OP was referring to the #718 model number station. Maywood, is #720 a Master Line model. Maywood station is on the Suzie Q. Another Atlas Master Line station, is the familiar # 706 which has been a staple on layout(s) for years.There is also a # 716 Rural station, in their Trainman line in addition to the # 718, Branchline Station.. I cannot find photos of the Trainman line of Structures on the Atlas Web site. My point was that the Trainman station which appears to be a stucco structure does not necessarily pin point a possible location. The Maywood station got stucco and I've seen stucco on stations near Chicago. Whether there is an exact prototype for the Trainman station is up for debate. www.ebay.com/itm/Atlas-Trainman-HO-KIT-Trainman-Branch-Line-Station-/151480381208?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2344ef2f18 |
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