Dave, The only problem with scratchbuilding is that I don't have time to build all the buildings I need for my layout....Scratch building, at least for me, thakes up too much of my time!!! I am really looking for some builder to do a laser kit that I can slap together! Ed Sauers
________________________________ From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} S Scale Workshop in Ottawa --- In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, Edward Sauers <ehsauers1@...> wrote: > I would appreciate any info on the icing station. That is a neat facility, we > need a nice icing station in S-scale!!!! I remember seeing them when I was a kid but the mechanical reefers soon put them out of business. I always thought they looked "cool" on hot days with their big blocks of ice up there on the platform. All the ones around here( central California) that I ever saw were much longer than that model, they could ice a long string of reefers at the same time. We had a union ice plant with spur here in Santa Cruz but it didn't have an icing platform in my day, maybe SP never iced cars on the branch and just sent them cold from Watsonville or maybe they had torn the platform down by the 50's. Should not be too hard to scratch build an icing station, just need a lot of strip wood for the platform and something to make the large ice house from. The most difficult part might be the chain that pulled the blocks of ice up onto the platform and along the top to the cars.Photos should be easy to find on railroad history or modeling websites.....DaveBranum
