Model Railroading > Guadalupe Depot

I just finished modifying an AMB SP Type 22 depot kit to bring it closer to the Guadalupe depot as it was in 1954.  Modifications included adding a toilets extension to one end, shortening the length of the upper storey, adding double doors and removing the roof canopy overhang at the end of the freight house, different design of doors, different design of freight loading platform etc.  The loading platform apparently lost about 20 feet between 1953 (see lower picture on page 38 of Gilbertson's "California Rails 1950s") and the sixties, possibly due to an accident.  The freight house is a set of double doors short on either side, but I'm happy with the compromise.

Thanks for looking.

Brian Moore
Plymouth, UK

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Beautiful!

Regards, Jim Evans

FiveChime Wrote:
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> Beautiful!
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> Regards, Jim Evans

Amen!!! Nice job!

Bob

Nice Work!
TC

The Guadalupe station never looked so good...beautiful model.  Thanks for sharing Brian.

Kent in CArmel Valley

Very nice!

Javier Cervantes
Castle Rock , CO

By the end of the station's life, that loading dock was cut back to the ramp

WAF Wrote:
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> By the end of the station's life, that loading
> dock was cut back to the ramp
Thanks, WAF.  I've been using the excellent Charles Lange pictures from the early 70s as the primary source, and the loading dock is indeed a stump in comparison to the overhead 1953 Gilbertson picture.

Brian  

Tremendous job, certainly a signature piece for time and place.

bxmoore Wrote:
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> WAF Wrote:
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> > By the end of the station's life, that loading
> > dock was cut back to the ramp
> Thanks, WAF.  I've been using the excellent
> Charles Lange pictures from the early 70s as the
> primary source, and the loading dock is indeed a
> stump in comparison to the overhead 1953
> Gilbertson picture.
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> Brian  

Those are great pictures of Charlie's. Nice job on the depot. Sad it ended up a peeled, faded paint fire trap in the 70s

> Those are great pictures of Charlie's. Nice job on
> the depot. Sad it ended up a peeled, faded paint
> fire trap in the 70s

I'm doing Oceano next, almost a mirror image of Guadalupe, and thankfully still standing, so much easier to find pictures.  But the 70s track plan, I find, was altered slightly from that of 1954, the period I'm modelling.  The small run-around loop in the tracks on the other side of the main from the depot and on the 1972 SPINS diagram, was subsequently half-chopped in subsequent years, but it wasn't there at all in 1954.

Brian

I don't think the real Gaudalupe depot had that much green grass surrounding it.  Otherwise, very nice!

Excellent model.   Thanks for sharing the results/photos.
Casselton

Knew it was a SP station before reading the caption.  Beautiful.

Very nice. I can appreciate the work involved as have been there, done that. However, I'm wondering why, if you went to all that trouble, that you didn't add the second set of freight doors? Will you perhaps add them later?

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Very nice. I can appreciate the work involved as
> have been there, done that. However, I'm wondering
> why, if you went to all that trouble, that you
> didn't add the second set of freight doors? Will
> you perhaps add them later?
Good question. I prefer to use tile-effect styrene sheet for the roof, rather than the paper shingle supplied.   I also don't like to see visible joins on the roof, which I'm not able to disguise sufficiently when I try to stick tile-effect sheets together. The roof is therefore the length of the longest length of styrene available to me.  Also, I didn't want to have fashion extra side parts from scratch that wouldn't match the supplied sides. 

Brian

Super build Brian!

Regards, Bobby

I understand. And investing in resin modling supplies for just that would be expensive. My brother, who is a taxidermist, recently told me about a product he has that duplicates parts very well and is realtively less expensive than resin. He said it has the consistency of clay and you just make an impression from your master and cast from that. The next time I'm up there, I'm going to check it out and find out more.