Port Pacific Station

Served by two tourist railroads, Port Pacific needed a train depot for passenger service.

This project is a kit bash of the Lifelike Police Station - a kit that has showed up in all of my layouts in the past.   Modifications will be pretty basic, with just about one inch of building being cut off of the right hand side of the building to create room for the passenger platform on the side of the building.  In addition to the platform there will be a clock tower with a working clock on top.  Final detailing will include Port Pacific lettered on a large sign in front of the clock tower.

As always with my building projects the first step was to prepare the sub-foundation as a guideline for clearances and as a level building site for the removable building.  The foundation was then cut out of styrene using the sub-foundation as a template.

With the foundation as a guide I opened up the kit and got to work.  

I left the foundation in place in the part of the building that I removed.  It can then be used as part of the sidewalk at the end of the project once I shave off the tabs that the building walls would have attached to.

I cut a big side door into the building which will have a couple sets of doors for passengers, luggage, etc, to move in and out of the building.  The platforms will be where all of the action is with carts, lots of people, benches, etc.  What is a Bail Bondsman office in the Police Station kit will now be the Iron Horse Restaurant - a defunct restaurant I used to enjoy in Seattle that delivered your meal on O Gauge and Standard Gauge flatcars.  Walls from a coal tipple my dad bought at the auction following their closure function as some of the seawall on the edge of Metallikahmish Bay.

Finally, here is an "aerial" view of the south end of the layout.  The coffee cans will be painted and modified during the Shell tank farm construction.  Onceler's Thneeds - a TEPCO company - will fit in between the tank farm and the passenger station.  The vacant lot north of the slaughterhouse will be the home of Three Pirate Captains' Bar and Grill.  That construction along with the seawalls on the south side of the bay will complete the south side of the layout.

All for now.  Will come back to this building (and the others) for additional detailing.  For now I'm moving to the other side of the bay to do some more work over there.

Next Time:  Sabbatical Reset