Cornwall Railroad Company Yardmasters Office

In between 1916 and 1923, the Cornwall Railroad Company constructed a two story brick structure. I'm currently in the process of drawing this building up in CAD. Once I have the drawings completed, I will be starting the build.

I came across this specification sheet for the building while doing research at the Lebanon County Historical Society. It gave me a good overall idea on the buildings footprint and size and materials used.

Photos of the office building: Taken in the 70's by Nick Kulp

These photos along with my drawing should be able to get a decent model of the building. Will post photos of the model being built.

Cad Drawing in progress:

Mock up model is completed. 

Another Ore car project. Cornwall Railroad Wooden Gondola's

Last year (2017), I started a project for a good friend and fellow Cornwall modeler Mark Cain. He model's Cornwall Railroad circa 1907. He always wanted to have models of the wooden ore cars used in his time period.  In order to gain car building knowledge, I am scratch build some prototypes of these cars (series 100-250) in HO scale (1:87.1). Mark had drawn a preliminary drawing, so I volunteered to build the prototypes and make the masters and molds. These wooden gondola were wood with iron hardware construction. They lasted into the early twenties and were retired in the late twenties. 

Regular type gondola Donaghmore Yard just south of the interchange with the Lebanon Valley RR (Reading) in Lebanon Pa. 

Hopper type gondola next to Ore Roasters. Cornwall Pa.

The cars are going to be constructed of styrene sheet material. Here are some photos of the models in process.

July 2017. There is a small mark on the metal square. I used this setup to make sure I had the correct height for the car. 

July 2017. You can see these cars sat very high. As a matter of fact we found an error on the drawing. This car is about seven scale inches too high.  

July 2017. Drawing and paper pattern installed for Hopper.

May 2018. Hopper needs doors applied. Currently trying to figure out brake rigging before adding the sides to the top. 

May 2018. Side Board for hopper type left. Side board for regular gondola right. Stakes for sideboard and stake pockets also shown.