Wayside station

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winced36
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Wayside station

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Between outdoor house maintenance projects, I found time to build another of Hal Carstens' "cut-out" features from Toy Trains magazine, this the wayside station included in the March 1952 issue. It reminds me a lot of the Baltimore Transit Company shelters along its streetcar line through Catonsville, Maryland:

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Not too complicated, should be a simple matter of cutting it out and pasting the components on some matt-board, then assembling. However, I made a number of changes along the way, including cutting the framing from balsa strips, papering the roof to look like rolled-roofing, and adding some internal bits to help get it nice and square and help with gluing it to a base. Gave it "PATAPSCO" signage, a semi-generic locale that would work almost anywhere on the west side of the Baltimore suburbs.

Might try to make a putz version some day.
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