Wild West railroad engine shed for steam locomotives MOC - real world WIP

[Murdoch17]

This railway engine shed was mostly inspired by user @lightningtiger, who designed the basic Technic frame on his own smaller shed for his town in 2018, and I ran with the technique to create this wooden western-style steam locomotive shed. It is also slightly inspired by by the shed used to store the replica Union Pacific "119" and Central Pacific "Jupiter" 4-4-0 steam locomotive's over at the Golden Spike National Historic Park. (link is to Wikipedia article on the site) located at Promontory Summit, Utah.

The shed is 3 1/2 tracks long with a total of 56 studs from back wall to the leading edge of the baseplate. (I ordered 3D printed half-track segments for the model, which aren't in LDD. The model shown uses a full length straight instead, and is thus much longer than it will actually be when finished.) The building also features a cow skull on the front between the locomotive stalls, just to give it that Wild West flair.

The roof of the shed is not removable, but it can fold open a bit on clips on either side. The model neatly fits both 4-4-0's I recently made that were inspired by 7597. (These loco's also are heavily inspired by 119 and Jupiter, in case you couldn't tell!)

The rear of the shed features a personnel door for workers. Up on the roof, you may have noticed those round black things: they are the vents for smoke and soot from steam engines to exit the building.

Slight update to train shed as of 7/14/22: The 3D printed half-track pieces I bought didn't want to attach to the baseplate properly, so they have been removed. Also, the 8x16 bricks were hitting the side-rods of the steam locomotives, so they were replaced with a multitude of 6x8 plates to lower the platform to a height where they wouldn't collide.

...And that's all I have done for now. More real world WIP pictures will comes as soon as possible.

As usual, comments, complaints, and suggestions on this model welcome!

Edited July 14, 2022 by Murdoch17

[garmsey]

I think the shed really fits with the engines. I look forward to seeing your progress.

[Murdoch17]

On 6/29/2022 at 2:41 PM, garmsey said:

I think the shed really fits with the engines. I look forward to seeing your progress.

@garmsey Well, to honest, the project has been pushed back to at least November, but don't despair! It's parts have been ordered, it's just I can't quite build it yet. (I'll have more info to add around then... it's complicated.)

[Murdoch17]

Slight update to train shed as of 7/14/22:

The 3D printed half-track pieces I bought didn't want to attach to the baseplate properly, so they have been removed. Also, the 8x16 bricks were hitting the side-rods of the steam locomotives, so they were replaced with a multitude of 6x8 plates to lower the platform to a height where they wouldn't collide.