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Fire-damaged enginehouse M


A variety of commercial parts were used to make this HO model/Louis Gomes


ost of us, at one time or anoth- er,


have had the dreaded mishap of watching one of our


prize locomotives have a cornfield meet with the concrete floor. In my case, it was an outside frame 2-8-0 and it was devastating to say the least. After a few choice words and that psycho dance in the middle of the train room what do you do? You either carefully put it back together or find another use for it. Back in the early 1980s, I remembered an article in RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTS- MAN where George Sellios modeled a burned-down building. I had always wanted to build such a structure, but never had a use or a good reason to do so. However, when my wife suggested that I “put it in an enginehouse fire,” that past article came to mind. What a great way to display this locomotive. And, that sparked (pun intended) an interest! All the items needed were already in the workshop from past projects or waiting for a use someday. I used a Campbell Scale Models No. 810 Stone Sheet in HO scale for the foundation walls. It measures 5″×17″ and is made from a clear polyethylene terephtha- late plastic. A Chooch Enterprises No. 8304 Large Random Stone Wall was used for the rear wall and the front en- trance was made using a Chooch No. 8370 Double Random Stone Tunnel.


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The windows and door are from Design Preservation Models No. 30171 Street Level Wall Section and the wood beams and framing were made from an as- sortment of stripwood.


Stone walls, foundation and base


I started with a 4″×9″ piece of ¹⁄₈″ hardboard with the textured side fac- ing up–after painting it will look like a stone floor–and glued it down in the


RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award........


middle an Atlas 9″ track section. This is the enginehouse base. The front entrance was made from a


A minimum of $100 and a Dremel Rotary Tool Kit with a variable-speed Dremel 3000 rotary tool and acces- sories are awarded to the monthly winners of the RMC/DREMEL KITBASHING AWARD. Entries must consist of at least two photos (high-resolution digital pic- tures should be at least 3,000 pixels wide; color slides or 5″×7″ or 8″×10″ prints are also acceptable) and a short text. Models must use at least 50% commercial compo- nents; unused entries may be held future editorial use.


Chooch double-track tunnel portal. Two sections near the top of the portal were removed, and the pieces left were glued back together to make up the front entrance (see photo). The large random stone wall used for the rear of the enginehouse was cut to width, and the leftover piece was glued to the top of the wall to get the needed height. Since the back of the building is situated on the layout in such a way that it is not very noticeable, the rear wall was positioned with the cut stone facing inward and the other side of the wall was covered with a piece of Camp- bell’s stone sheet (the same material used on the foundation walls). After both the front and rear walls had the roof an- gles cut, they were glued to the base. Campbell stone sheet was contact ce- mented to both sides of a ¹⁄₁₆″×¹⁄₂″ piece of stripwood to form the foundation walls. These were glued down to the base between the front and rear walls with stripwood along the top as a sill.


Painting the stone material The stone sheet material is designed as stone, not red brick, therefore earthen colors were used. First, all four walls were given even coats of light gray oil


JUNE 2014


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