I’ve begun planning my first major building for the In-ko-pah Railroad. It’s a station for the town of Dos Manos, on the lower level of the layout. This depot will be one of the focal points of the railroad.

So far I’m still in the design stage. I used an old 3D modeling program to create these images of the proposed design.

The textures are intended to give a rough approximation of the materials that will be used: Cut stone for the lower part of the building, and random stone for the rest. Some details have not yet been added, and others are still being finalized.

The depot must fit into a narrow space between two tracks. The main building will be eight inches square and two stories tall. The shaded platform will extend eight inches out from the side.

The exact size, positions, and appearance of the doors and windows remains to be determined. For now they are shown as simple dark rectangles.

The next step will be to build a full-scale mockup out of foam core board. This will be used to check clearances and to determine how well the structure fits into its surroundings.

For this structure, I wanted to capture the “flavor” of a typical small, Western mining town. I also decided to use some elements of Mission Revival architecture, to give it a southwestern appearance. This type of architecture was popular during the early part of the century, and influenced depots in many southwestern locations, including Kingman, Arizona and the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada.

October 2008: Due to the complexity of the design, I’ve decided to hold off on constructing the depot until I’ve built a couple smaller, simpler buildings.

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