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Nos. 16001-18500 O SCALE/PROTO 48 • Kit #124/124-P … $49.95 •Based on 1917 prototype built by Mt. Vernon Car Co. •Double sheath with Dreadnought ends •Steel underframe •Andrews trucks •Kit includes couplers and decals Also available – SACRAMENTO NORTHERN Boxcar Nos. 2301-2350 Kit #125/125-P … $49.95 Coming soon – SP Sugar Beet Gondola 42 • O Scale Trains - July/August ’07
There are a large number of small line-side structures that you can add to your layout that can add detail and interest. Years ago, milk was transported by rail in a vast array of specialized reefer or milk cars. Along branchlines there would be small sheltered platforms for farmers to set out their daily collection of filled milk cans. These were picked up and transported into larger centers for combined processing and further shipping throughout the nation. These small milk stations can add an interest point, and also give you an excuse for making a brief stop to pick up a few milk cans off your rural branch line for transport into the nearest town. I had seen that CMA made a styrene kit for a milk station in HO, based on an O&W prototype. However, this is a wooden structure. To my eye, nothing takes paint and stain and weathering like wood. Also, being an O Scale modeler, an HO kit can only serve as a starting point to build my version of this structure, board-by-board. This turned out to be a relatively easy build. It could be simplified by using commercial siding and decking, but that might sacrifice the <strong>scale</strong> wall-thickness along with the look of exposed framing. I started by building the platform and set the dimensions to be 10’ x 20’. I made the 20’ front and back sills from 1/4” x 3/32” dimension lumber (Figure 1). The 9-1/4’ ends are 1/4” x 1/8” dimension lumber, while the rest of the 9-1/4’ platform joists were fashioned from 1/4” x 3/32” dimension lumber. The frame was assembled using Walthers Goo to hold it together until the deck was installed. The decking was made Building a Simple Line-Side Structure: Milk Station Martin Brechbiel from one of my favorite sources of rough lumber, wooden coffee stirrers, which were CA’d to the platform frame leaving the excess to be trimmed off later with a sharp utility knife. I smoothed the ends off with my belt sander, but you could use a sanding block just as easily. Twelve posts (each five feet long) for the platform were cut on the bandsaw from HO 10” x 22” stock. More often than not, everyone just glues these underneath onto the inside surface of the joists. This time I cut a mortise out of each leg on the band saw (mind the fingers), to accept the joists so that they would actually rest on the posts. Then I CA’d them into place. Diagonal bracing, made of HO 3" x 10", was added front-to-back on both sides of each row of posts. They were added across the front and back as well. I dressed these up a bit by adding Grandt Line #23 nut-bolt-washer castings at every joint to complete the platform. The station was built using 2x4 and 4x4 framing. There were two sidewalls (Figure 2) built on an eight-foot long 2x4 sill with 4x4 ends; one end was eight feet high while the other was ten feet high. The ten-foot long 4x4 was doubled inside the wall with a 2x4 that served to support the 2x4 cap. There were three 2x4 studs, each eight feet long, in the wall. All of these were assembled using Walthers Goo. Next, the interior surface (there is a left and a right as these were built as mirror images (Figure 3)) of the ten-foot long 4x4 was doubled with an 8’-2” long 2x4 that started flush with the sill base. I left a four-inch gap above this 2x4, then added another piece of 2x4 leaving yet another four-inch gap between that board and the top of the 4x4. These two gaps were left to inset two 4x4 boards that would connect the two sidewalls. The 12’ back wall (Figure 2) was framed entirely of 2x4 studs set on 24” centers. Seven rafters were made from rough scrap (approximately 2” x 12”). Each is 11-3/4’ long, beveled on each end, and mortised to set down onto the framing of the sides (Figure 2). The structure was assembled by CA’ing the right side of the framing to the back. This assembly was, in turn, glued to the left side. Remember to make sure that the interiors of the July/August ’07- O Scale Trains • 43
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