We Are Considering a Model And We Need
Your Thoughts
We
are considering two potential MCRR depots to be
offered as our next
NYCSHS structure
model and we need your help in deciding
which one to
offer.
The kit will be based on the depot that still exists at West Branch,
Michigan on Michigan Central’s Bay City to Mackinaw City line now
operated by the Lake States Railway. The prototype depot is a
combination depot with separate sections for passenger waiting room,
operator’s office complete with bay window and baggage section.
The depot is constructed of wood and features board and baton siding
with a gabled roof and is trimmed with Victorian era accents.
Other Michigan Central depots of the same style were located at Decatur,
Eden, Francisco, Irving, Jones, Roscommon, Sherwood, Vandalia and West
Branch, Michigan; Chrisman and South Bend, Indiana; as well as Buxton,
Chippawa, LaSallette, Mull, Oil City, Stevensville and Victoria Park,
Ontario Canada.
These depots were located along the Buffalo to Chicago via Detroit
Mainline as well as the Fort Erie, Grand Rapids, Mackinaw, Michigan Air
Line, Niagara, Oil City, Saginaw and St Joseph Branches.
The second option would be this MCRR
station produced in HO-scale by The N-Scale Architect who produced our
NYC LS&MS Lines West brick and stone depot kit a couple of years
ago. It will be a wood laser cut kit. The kits would be un-assembled
and would be built and painted by the modeler.
The kit will be based on the depot that still exists at Derby
(Stevensville), Michigan on Michigan Central’s St Joseph Branch which
ran between South Bend, Indiana and St Joseph, Michigan. The prototype
depot is a combination depot with separate sections for passenger
waiting room, operator’s office complete with bay window and baggage
section. The depot is constructed of wood and features shiplap siding
with a hip roof. There were many examples of this style of depot spread
across the Michigan Central and Canada Southern Railways.
While there were many different sizes of this style of depot as well as
door and window arrangements, they all shared the same design elements.
However two common variations occurred on these depots. The first
variation was the siding. Some depots were entirely sided with shiplap
siding from foundation to the soffit; other depots had a piece of
horizontal trim that encircled the depot at the top of the windows.
Vertical tongue and groove siding was then installed between this trim
and the roof’s soffits. The second variation was a ground levelor raised
baggage section. The raised baggage sections allowed parcels to be slid
directly from the raised floor to a cart and to the train with out even
lifting. Depots with raised floors have a baggage room door with no
windows, while low floored baggage rooms have a transom windows above
the baggage door. It is hoped that the kit will include these options to
allow the modeler to customize the kit allowing for four different
versions of the kit to be built without kitbashing.
Other Michigan Central depots of the same style were located at Auburn,
Bach, Baroda, Chester, Derby, Eckford, Glendora, Glenwood, Midland,
Munger, Rives Junction, Thomas, Utica, Vanderbilt and Wahjamega Michigan
as well as Charing Cross, Hagersville, Iona and St Davids Ontario,
Canada.
These Michigan Central depots were located along the Buffalo to Chicago
via Detroit Mainline as well as the Bay City, Caro, Grand Rapids,
Mackinaw, Midland, Moscow, Niagara, Saginaw and St Joseph Branches.
A minimum of fifty (50) reservations is needed
to make either of these kits a reality.
We will only produce one of these two
as our next offering. Help us decide
which one to offer.
Will it be the West Branch, MI Depot??
or the
Derby Depot, Stevensville, MI Depot??
Cast Your Vote
Email Your Choice to Seth Lakin at:
