The house I grew up in

Started by bparrish, November 03, 2021, 02:49:34 PM

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Rail and Tie

Excellent work Bob! Love the window detail.
Darryl Jacobs
Inter-Action Hobbies
www.interactionhobbies.com

bparrish

So I got back to this project..........  recall I was interrupted by the school house project when the grand kids came for Christmas..

I had no idea when I started this that there would be so many glue steps and the need for yellow glue and super glue.  Yellow glue was needed for initial holding of stuff together and allowing for minor adjustments for square before setting aside.  Super glue was needed for simple strength as it would need to be handled so much during the steps of construction.

For whatever reasons in Chicago, there are google earth photos taken in the alleys so I had at least some recollection of what was there.  They have since replaced some of the railing with stuff that has a spacing.  I am building this as it was in 1950 so there are no spaces.

This will get de-fuzzed before painting.


The roof is to be removable so appearances from the top need to be maintained also.


There will be a 2x12 around the edge of the sliding roof so you cannot see under.

I would have liked to not use a 4x12 on the back edge to tie the verticals together but there was no enough strength otherwise.  It is not visible with the roof in place.


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Did you ever notice how many towns are named after their water towers ! ?

bparrish

So here is a look at the back porch from the alley.   




Other than the slats changed not much is different from 50+ years ago

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PRR Modeler

What a great project. It looks awesome.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
Freelanced PRR Bellevue Subdivision

GPdemayo

Great job on the porch framing Bob..... 8)
Gregory P. DeMayo
General Construction Superintendent Emeritus
St. Louis & Denver Railroad
Longwood, FL

Janbouli

looking good Bob , is that broken railing part of the plan  ;) or wasn't it broken when you lived there.
I love photo's, don't we all.

deemery

Looks like someone tried to put his head through the railing on the prototype photo....


dave
Modeling the Northeast in the 1890s - because the little voices told me to

Janbouli

Quote from: deemery on January 21, 2022, 02:04:38 PM
Looks like someone tried to put his head through the railing on the prototype photo....


dave

Would have been a small head , probably not Bob  ;) ;D
I love photo's, don't we all.

deemery

US building codes changed sometime in the last 15-20 years, to restrict the allowable space between railing posts.  That's apparently because some kid got his/her head stuck in between them.  We found that out the hard way when the home inspector pointed that out ot the people purchasing our previous house, and we were forced to redo them "to code."


dave
Modeling the Northeast in the 1890s - because the little voices told me to

postalkarl

Hey Bob:

Looking just great. Can't wait to see more.

Karl

bparrish

The railings were tongue and groove boards so they were closed as I have made them.  That spaced stuff was put there after 1983 when I took some photos while on a visit to Chicago. 


Thanx all


Bob
Did you ever notice how many towns are named after their water towers ! ?

bparrish

So I got the house sorta planted...... I still need to glue down the sidewalk and make up the flower boxes that were on the front of the house.   The mountings are still on the today photo but the boxes that were sandstone are long gone.

I'm modeling the house in 1950 so they will need to be there.   My grandfather was into petunias so every spring we would go down to Green Street (I couldn't begin to make that one up) and come home with two flats for the boxes.  I'll get that done soon.

For now..........here is a street level view of the house.



I did not have a lot of locations for this on my railroad as this structure has a large footprint.  It ended up along the trolley line in Boise.   I wish that I had lived this close to the tracks in while growing up in Chicago.  As it was, we practically "lived" in the Milwaukee Road yard at Cragin, about three blocks away.  This was in the last years of steam and the near retirement engineers would pull us up into the locomotive and let us ring the bell and blow the whistle.  Great times to grow up.


Then here is the back porch with some paint on it.



A view from a higher vantage point.



Here is a photo from Google earth today.


Did you ever notice how many towns are named after their water towers ! ?

Janbouli

That looks awesome , great job Bob.
I love photo's, don't we all.

Jim Donovan

Jan is right, that is a great model.

Jim D
Holland & Odessa Railroad

ReadingBob

Oh wow!  That's wonderful Bob.  What a great project and great addition to the layout.   :)
Bob Butts
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There's a fine line between Hobby and Mental Illness.

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