Scratch Building a Pennsylvania Rail Road Flag Stop Station

This is a little project I set myself as I want a dissused, but preserved Flag Stop Station on my layout. I did have the option of buying a kit, but it was going to cost around the $27.00 USD, plus postage !

I know that I have a lot of materials in my scratch building box, so a quick search for the materials and I was under way...

Materials used are :
Evergreen Styrene V-Groove sheet (#2060) 1.5mm spacing and 0.5mm thick
Evergreen styrene sheet 0.5mm thick (I used clear as I had no white)
North Eastern Scale Lumber - 3" x 3", 3" x 4", 4" x 4", 4' x 6"
P1200 wet & dry paper
Superglue

I also obtained a plan and a photo from an online source.

So, a picture of what I scratch built.

and the plan...

A mock up drawing with all the measurements was drawn up. All the scale measurements were converted to mm to make life easier as I do not own a HO scale rule.

These measurements were transferred to the V-groove sheet (cladding) and cut out. I actually made a mistake here and cut off the verandah support walls... Never mind, I can attach little triangles to make up for the loss...

All the necessary North Eastern Lumber (lets call it wood) was cut to size and superglued to the walls as per the plan. Notches were cut out of the cladding for the roof beams. From the plans you can see that the main frame is 4" x 4", the lower noggins are 3" x 4".

In typical fashion, I used Lego bricks as a square to marry the walls together.

The roof beams (4" x 6") were placed into the slots and superglued, followed the end barge boards/joists, again 4" x 6" was used heer and all four pieces had to have a notch filed into them so they can sit correctly over the frame.

3" x 3" wood was cut to size and glued into position to support the roof material. The roof is the 0.5mm thick styrene sheet.

Once set, I trimmed some 1200 wet & dry to 10mm wide strips and starting at the bottom, gluing them to the styrene roof. Each sheet overlapped the one below, forming the tar paper roof. A ridge cap was the same width sheet simply folded long ways and glued into position.

Next up I will construct the floor and small platform, then get onto the painting and weathering.

Cheers, Gary.

 

Knocked up a platform for the building using North Eastern Scale Lumber scribed sheet. The sheet resembles 3" wide floor boards. The piece was cut to size and batterns were glued underneath to raise it off the ground. These are just 3mm thick balsa strips cut to approximately 1mm wide, in essence 10" x 4". In true PRR fashion, the front section was designed with a 5-10% fall towards the tracks, which I replicated by adding another small strips of wood under the level platform section. This was subsequently weathered (no paint) and the station building was also painted up in PRR colour scheme.

Now I just need to finish off the scenery in the area this will be planted...

Cheers, Gary.

 

I have to say that it was Pete who said I can scratch build the station. I can say that early on I was going to take the easy way out and buy a kit, but in the end common sense prevailed and I saved some cash !

Thanks Pete !

Cheers, Gary.