Apparently there are several types of siding covering materials. My
family home also had JM slate sliding. It was rigid and broke fairly
easily via baseballs. It might have been 10 x 18". Some local versions
had a wavy pattern on the bottom edge.
However, the material that many stations had was more of a wraping and
yes many lower end homes were done that way. I know you could likely
push on the material and it would move under slight pressure because
there was probably clapboard under it with all it's ridges.
Bob Werre
On 3/12/12 8:31 PM, Luther wrote:
I lived in a 2 story/basement/full attic house from 1946 till 1958
that was covered with the faux brick panels. as I recall they were
about 1/2 inch thick, possibly asbestos mixed with something else,
similar in composition to ceiling tile. The house was heated with a
coal furnace, coal was delivered by Hessler Bros via a dump truck with
a chute thru the basement window into a wood coal bin. Dad finally put
in a stoker so we didn't have to hand feed the beast. Our train room
was in the attic, insulated, no a/c. This was not a shack but the
largest house in our block, slate roof and 3 car 2 story garage/barn
in the back yard. Dad had an oval of hand laid track and a dockside,
kinsman box car, S scale, and I had an af layout started till I
decided to go H-O. This took place in Scotia NY. Dad was a steam
engineer working at ALCO in Schenectady till he was riffed when
diesels took over.
That's my story,
Luther "S"tephens
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
"Robert Boring" <borore@...> wrote:
>
> Bob, I remember seeing that asphalt brick covering on some older
homes (read shacks) out here in Oregon shortly after the war. I would
guess it was in about 2x3 foot sheets and put on much like three tab
shingles are now. Haven't seen it in a long time.
>
> Bob Boring
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Werre
> To: [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List}old structures/new structures
>
>
>
> There is a wonderful book out that contains mostly smaller Canadian
grain elevators. It's a fairly recent book so many were painted bright
colors. It's a celebration of the passing of that era when elevators
dotted the tracks at every water stop and sometimes between. I don't
have it here and don't recall it's name--maybe tomorrow.
>
> I have viewed the video that Pieter had posted on this list a few
times. That elevator is right along with what the Dakotas' had. What
was somewhat foreign to me, was the elevator that Building and
Structure Company put out in laser cut styrene some years ago. It had
outside horizontal bracing that I had never seen before. However on
the way to the Denver convention I stopped and photographed a medium
sized unit with such bracing. So 500 miles between the Dakotas and
Colorado with similar growing seasons and weather conditions brought
out different construction techniques.
>
> Before I wrap this up, I'll mention another thing that was common,
and probably just down the road from the Zeiska residence. If one were
to view a model of a Soo Line station the judges might give it a bad
review because of sloppy application of brickwork. Actually it wasn't
brick at all. Many older homes and railroad stations that were hard to
heat were covered with an asphalt wrapper embossed with a brick
pattern. So if one were to take some brick paper and wrap your station
without taking into consideration how it lined up or if the wrapper
actually went around the corner you would be following what really was
done. I have photos of a couple of Soo Line combination stations with
living quarters above with such treatment. Unfortunately, I'm not
certain how this stuff was applied and what sizes the stuff was sold in.
>
> Bob Werre
> PhotoTraxx
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>
>
> On 3/12/12 1:13 PM, Daniel McConnachie wrote:
>
>
> This is true in Canada as well, but as someone else pointed out
there were significant differences between Eastern and Western grain
elevators and barns. Size and roof construction being the biggest
difference. So there are some regional influences. One other note,
most house construction in Canada is usually brick with some stone in
parts of Ontario. Here as well there are exceptions. Wood is the
preferred material in Canada's Maritimes.
>
> Daniel McConnachie
> Retired Head of Music
> Stouffville District Secondary School
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