Hi all, Does anyone out there have any photos or information on the cheyenne Depot. I am going to kitbash this and make it out of Hydrocal. any help would be thankfull. Go GO Nscale
The building is a museum. Boy, you have a real task in front of you! :teeth: http://www.cheyennedepotmuseum.org/index.asp The depot was recently refurbished. I bet they have plans somewhere...
cheyenne depot i lived in cheyenne for a short time and got a grand tour before the restoration its quite a building fireplaces in the restrooms and such. I am hopeing to get as much photographic info as i can so i can lay it out and start a mold.
DNRGW74, I am also planning to scratch-build the Cheyenne Depot. I have been there a number of times, most recently July '07. I have taken many pictures of the building, and taken some measurements of the exterior. The building is approximately 350 feet long and 54 feet wide. I have been to the museum four times since it opened, and taken pictures of the original plans for the building. I managed to make copies of the plans and blow them up to exact N-scale dimensions. I belong to the Cheyenne Depot Museum Society, and they have many activities there all the time. If you get a chance to get back there you should go and see it. Send me your mailing address and I will send you copies of the plans that I have made. I have also been in touch with Evans Designs and sent them many digital pictures of the Depot. They may eventually make available software of the stonework, windows, doors, etc. of the building. Another excellent source of information about Cheyenne is the book "The History of the UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD IN CHEYENNE' by Robert Darwin. Buzz Lenander lenanderjrs@msn.com
I'm a little over an hour away from Cheyenne in northern Colorado, model the U.P., and have been working on the preliminaries for such a scratch project this year. I had asked about a year ago if anybody had ever made a kit of this depot, but nobody has it seems. This is one of my first scratch building projects and an ambitious one I'll admit. I don't expect it to be perfect, but rather a close-enough replica of the structure that along with the other yard buildings I've collected including the turntable, roundhouse, shops, coal bunker, etc., will make it clearly resemble Cheyenne yard. My plan was to do it in styrene or card stock. I've started some CAD templates on my computer to use as jigs for cutting out the basic walls with doors and window holes. I was then going to build up the various archways and glue them onto the walls. I have not found an appropriate stone pattern in either card stock or styrene from the various manufacturers. Again, I'm not looking for perfect, just cut stone of nearly the right dimensions to look about right. I hadn't considered plaster and making my own stone pattern. Any ideas on how to produce this pattern or which manufacturer makes such a pattern in any material would be very helpful.
