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Modeling the Wild West Soft Cover Old Cheyenne Gila Bend Pemberton SF Depot
Modeling the Wild West
Soft Cover
80 pages
Copyright 2003
Old Cheyenne Gila Bend Pemberton Georgetown Gold Mine Trestle Stock yard Grain Mill Depot Coaling station Water tower old Views
CONTENTS
Introduction
Palace Car Life
1855 Rock Island Wooden Trestle 1870 Santa Fe Coaling Station 1870 Santa Fe Water Tower
1871 Santa Fe Depot
1880 Gila Bend, Arizona
1880 Georgetown, Colorado
1870 Cheyenne, Wyoming
1862 Pemberton, Colorado Snowsheds
Early Windmill
Santa Fe Stock Yard
Old Water Mill
1874 Georgetown, CO., Fire House 1900 Dodge City, Kansas, Grain Mill 1957 Bumble Bee Photographs Cripple Creek, Colorado, Gold Mine
Scenes in Webber Canyon
Introduction
One of the most popular structure series ever run in RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN was the group of western articles by the late Lloyd Giebner and even after the many years since they were printed, we still receive requests for information and data on this series. This book gathers into one handy package the western railroad structure articles created by Lloyd, with minimal updating as to technique. Supplementing the Giebner articles are pieces by Earl Cochrane and C. Langdon Campbell III. We've also added photos of old mining scenes as they were and as they appear today, along with other recent western views and old pen and ink drawings from The Pacific Tourist of 1873.
At the time Giebner built his models, there were very few super detail parts available to the modeler. Today the modeler has a wide array of such materials, many of them available through local hobby shops. Where not available locally, they can be ordered from many suppliers in RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN. Countless hours can be saved using such parts, even if a 100% match can't be obtained. Grandt Line, for example, offers a wide selection of door and window castings molded in plastic which probably have better detail than most modelers could do themselves. The commercial parts are available today in most scales from a number of manufacturers. Campbell Scale Models offers roof shingles in roll form that have more detail than the printed sheets which were once almost standard for most modelers. Similarly, Victorian Gingerbread trim is available in a number of forms and can add a great deal to any model for which it is called. Many of the older style structures found in this book have all but disappeared from the railroad scene. Coaling stations have all but vanished although occasionally concrete foundations can still be found. Many depots have been torn down, as have most water towers. Roundhouses, where they have not disappeared, have become diesel servicing facilities of one type or another so that many details have changed. Giebner's drawings would today probably be redrawn for publication in Railroad Model Craftsman. We have left them as they were and the modeler will find them easy drawings from which to make a model.
We mentioned that commercial parts can save hours of construction time. See your dealer for plastic or cast metal windows and doors, stairways, chimneys, stacks, ladders, water spouts, chain, lights, lamps, and other parts.
Giebner usually used wood siding and this is still highly recommended. Some modelers today prefer styrene, and others use Strathmore board, plastic siding especially for bricks, or even hydrocal for stone and brick. Use the material you like best. Modelers working in N or Z scale might prefer using Strathmore board for many parts.
Model cement is fast drying and usually holds well but it is no longer the only adhesive used by modelers. See your dealer for other adhesives useful in attaching small metal parts, or materials that work better with other cements.
All pictures are of the actual item. There may be reflection from the lights in some photos. We try to take photos of any damage. If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad. Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. Thank you for buying from us.
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