Hi, everyone. Blair Line has announced a beautiful kit for a Santa Fe section house in HO scale. An N scale version may be produced if there is enough interest. Check out the link to the Blair Line web site for photos: http://www.blairline.com/atsf6room/ Near the bottom of the page is a link to email Blair Line in support of an N scale version. If you would purchase one or more N scale kits, please take a minute to send a quick email to them. I know I need several of these for my layout! atsf
It looks like older East Coast beach houses or rural town house with front screened in porch. I've put in my request for one!
I don't remember any section houses looking like this in or around Barstow, CA. Doesn't mean there wasn't...I just don't remember any. Perhaps this would be more fitting in Arizona, Texas, Colorado and or New Mexico. Anyway it looks good so add me to the list of: I wants one...if the price is right.
Blair Line Kit Hi to the forum, I am new to the site having left the hobby about 18 months ago after selling all of my HO stuff. That was a mistake I can tell you I missed the hobby and the camradarie terribly. I have since gotten back into it and moved down to N scale, in size, not quality and hopefully not quantity either. Having scratchbuilt this structure for my HO railroad about three years ago I can tell you that it is an exact match for the Operators House at Summit on Cajon Pass (which is what I used to model on a 30 X 15 foot modular layout that I took to shows here in Aussie). The model is based on one of the operators houses that I think were finally replaced in about 1958. Don't quote me on that as I have none of my references here with me at the moment. But that is definately the prototype for the kit. Bit of a shame they didn't think to put the ends of the rafter tails in the N scale version as they are quite distinctive on the prototype and will be missed on the kit. I have ordered one and will be adding the tails with small strips of styrene. Even if it means thinning down the edges of the plywood roof to do so.
These look almost identical to the four I have seen in Arizona (except no chimneys in the desert!) Door and windows vary a bit on the real ones, but that is the basic design. Looks good, IMHO.
Lots of houses like that ...especially up here in the mountains of Arizona....screened front porch...or "Arizona room" as we call it...to keep the misquitoes out an a nice cool summmer evening. And a chiminey for the fireplace...in the winters. I like it !
Looks to me like it could also be used as a residence. My grandmother who use to live in Maywood, Ca., had an old frame house that was very similar to this one.
What popped into my mind when I first saw this was a "summer cottage" down by the lake. Looks like I might have to use a different roofing material, but maybe not.
