The HO Scale Project From Hell

[Stuart]

Looks very similar to a railroad station that used to exist in Dragoon, Arizona.  Dragoon hardly exists any more but I had a friend who actually lived out there. He sent me a few photos of the station and asked that I extrapolate what I could and recreate a series of scaled drawings for him.  His intention was to build a scale model of it for an outdoor railroad he was building.
 
Stuart

[finescalerr]

The Goleta Depot is a rare, almost textbook example of a Southern Pacific Type 22 design. They built it in 1904 and added an additional freight door front and back a couple of decades later. No two Type 22s are exactly the same, though, depending on the whim of the builders; availability of doors, windows, shingles and siding; length of the top floor ... the list goes on. -- Russ

[Bernhard]

You've built a very nice model there, Russ. I especially like the different structures of the facades. Can you show us a picture of the prototype? I always find the comparison between prototype and model extremely interesting.

Bernhard

[finescalerr]

Here are the earliest photos I have, from 1913. -- Russ