Derrick attached to drive machinery

I have completed finally the derrick for the drive machinery.  It took me a long time because I had to scratch build the pulleys along with the wiring and it was complex.   

The derrick is on a wood platform made with individual boards and the derrick beams are wood.  The pulleys are card stock sides with a short piece of wood dowel between them.  The hook is a commercial metal casting.  The wires are pieces of brass wire painted black.   

The rear view above shows a ladder leaning on the shed, a wood pallet and scenery on a piece of card stock.  

Derrick drive mechanism shed

 This shed contains machinery to operate a derrick.  It also has a work bench and some other details.  the machinery is from an SS Ltd kit.  The shed was made using scribed wood and wood strips.  

Above is a front view of the shed and machinery inside.  The roof was made using cardboard corrugated roof material supplied with the machinery kit.  

Above is a semi side view of the shed.

Above is a view of the shed interior taken before the other wall and roof were installed.  The "brass" wheels will be used for wires that will connect to the derrick for operation.  On the upper left is a control panel that connects to a buss bar on the roof. 

Next I will build a derrick for the to operate.  

Model A Ford station wagon model

 While trying to decide what structure to build next I decided to build one of my old vehicle kits.  This station wagon by Jordan Products was painful to build.  I mostly ignored the instructions and just built it using the drawings of what went where.  It came out OK and will be placed somewhere on my layout.

Behind the model is the cover of the box it came in which has a photo of their kit model.  

Railroad track side shed model

 This is a small shed owned by the railroad and used to store track maintenance materials and other things used by the maintenance crew.  The shed walls were built using individual board strips with only my ink/alcohol mixture for coloring.   The roof was made from card board with end cuts to simulate wood planks and "tarpaper" roofing cover.  The door is and old freight car door.  

I placed the shed on a piece of thin cardboard painted to simulate dirt and added some grass, real dirt and various details.  On the left above is a stack of ties.  At the right is a loco wheel.  One of the workers is standing at the door.  

At the right end of the shed is a rack with two oil barrels.  

Above is a view of the rear of the shed.  There is a small bush to the left, a ladder hanging on the back of the shed, and some junk and tools next to the stack of ties.

Bar model

This bar model was constructed to be next to the flophouse.  It was mostly constructed using card stock with paper brick sheet siding by SS Ltd which I bought many years ago.  The front window is a commercial plastic  product and the recessed front door was scratch built.  

The person sitting on the sidewalk looks like he had too much to drink.  

The beer and liquor signs were cut out of magazines years ago.  The sidewalk is a plastic commercial product.

Flophouse model

 A flophouse is a place that provides low cost lodging with a place to sleep and not much more.  It has a shared bathroom and provides no meals.  These originated in the early 1900s though I am not sure if they still exist today.  They had other names also, especially in  other countries.  The quarters inside were very small sometimes like an office cubicle.  The people who used these were mostly transient workers.  I think the modern version of these are called pods.

My model has commercial wood sides with a cast metal frame at the top of the front.  At the bottom is a simulated paper cement block base.  The front and side windows are commercial products by Tichy.  The front door and rear windows are scratch built.  There is a Flophouse sign over the door and some tobacco signs on the walls.  The smoke stack is a plastic commercial part.

In the rear view above you can see a small shed.   The right side is plain and there will be a small bar next to it.  That is what I will build next.  

Way station model

This is a railroad way station which is a small station along the railway between cities.  I named it North Station in memory of my late friend Gordon North.  It is mostly scratch built except the fence, the trash can,  the RPO stand and of course the figures and luggage.  

The model is on a plastic base which is carved to simulate cement sections.  To the left of the door is a mostly black time table.  

The RPO stand at the left has a mail bag that a railway post office car on a passenger train can easily grab as it slowly goes by.  I modified the RPO stand slightly and added the words U S Mail using a commercial dry transfer.  A friend of mine gave me one of those old RPO bags years ago as the postal service was getting rid of them.  I have it hanging on a wall in my basement.  The RPO ended many years ago.   I actually got to see the inside of one of those RPO cars at a railway museum. It had a row of mail bags hanging in the center of the car with town name labels on them and some sorting desks along the walls.  

And now to decide what to build next.