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Anyone following this thread MUST enlarge the images. Most satisfactory. No wonder it took you a year to get back to us. Thank you for posting those inspirational photos. -- Russ

Well that's interesting. My original pictures are crystal clear but end up looking fuzzy when inserted to the posting, but if you click to enlarge they appear much clearer.

Anyway

If you ever lived in Northern or Central California between the 1920's and the 1960's you may remember a grocery store chain called PURITY STORES, The store chain is long gone now but some of their unique quonset hut style buildings still exist but have been repurposed.

I decided I needed one for my new town of Fields Landing so this is what I ended up with. The design had to be slightly modified to fit the space available but hopefully it looks close to the prototype.

An interesting side note; as I was researching this company I learned that in the 1920's one of the major stockholders in the Purity Stores was a man named Cummins who also owned a diesel engine building business that was really struggling to make it.
He came up with the idea of installing his engines in the Purity delivery trucks and as they say the rest is history.

Can't believe it has been a year since I last posted anything to this thread. I have been busy on the railroad and will try to include a couple of pictures.


The Fields Hotel, scratch built from 1/4 inch PVC board, Styrene and wood. I used commercial window frames and roof shingles.


Let's see how these pictures come out.

Wow, what an epic project!

Nice!

Cool! A very interesting project!

Bernhard, I showed a retired machinist/engineer friend parts of this thread and he was amazed at your work and envious of some of your equipment. 

So tell us, Bernhard, what did you do over your Thanksgiving vacation?

The size and complexity of those girders and supports are overwhelming, yet every detail is virtually perfect. This is an adequate project.

Russ

This gets more and more dizzying...   
But your work space is not bad either!

The next soldering jig is a little more complex. It is intended for the trusses on the outside of the cantilever and is half a meter long. It is also prepared so that I can solder a left and a right version.





But before I can start soldering, I first have to fit countless gusset plates and angles with embossed rivets.

Bernhard