Building a Yardmaster Tower

[GPdemayo]

Looking good Jeff.....

[nycjeff]

You're modelling up a storm there, Jeff.

Great progress.

Cheers, Mark.

Looking good Jeff.....

Hello Mark and Greg, I appreciate your looking in to my little build. I had a great time doing this scratchbuild. This is a structure that just looks railroady.

[nycjeff]

Here is a closer look at the second and third level landings with the stairs installed. You also get a good look at the awnings.

Next will be views of the four sides of the tower before it gets placed on the layout.









I am really pleased with my yardmaster tower. Again, I want to thank Jim Kelly for the inspiration coming from the fine article in the magazine that I referenced at the beginning of this thread.
I hope you like my scratchbuilt structure. Next will be some pictures of the tower on my layout.

[S&S RR]

Very nice work!

[nycjeff]

Hello John, thank you for looking in and for the kind words.

[nycjeff]

I'm going to finish up this build thread with a few pictures of the tower after it was placed on my layout





The tower has been placed at the end of my classification yard tracks and the entrance to the engine service are tracks





This is a good shot of the stairways and landings, I'm really pleased with how they came out. I think that they make the structure.

[nycjeff]

Hope that everyone has enjoyed my tower build thread. It's nice to be able to share on the forum again. Thanks to all who looked in and commented.

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

What a cool structure and it looks great on the layout. I like the last photo, at track level, with all the cabeese! Great job.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

Looks perfect Jeff.....well done. 

[Mark Dalrymple]

Really nice, Jeff.

Those awnings look terrific.  Its quite the eye catcher with its steel beam supports and those delicate stairways all the way to the third floor. 

Cheers, Mark.

[Keep It Rusty]

Really great result, Jeff. Oozes character. Love the steel supports, too.

[nycjeff]

Jeff,

What a cool structure and it looks great on the layout. I like the last photo, at track level, with all the cabeese! Great job.

Tom

Hello Tom, thanks for the kind words. I like the track level view as well and who doesn't like pictures of cabeese

Looks perfect Jeff.....well done. 

hello Greg, thank you.

Really nice, Jeff.

Those awnings look terrific.  Its quite the eye catcher with its steel beam supports and those delicate stairways all the way to the third floor. 

Cheers, Mark.

Hi there Mark, the features that you mentioned are the very ones that made me like this model so much. I'm pleased with the final result'

Really great result, Jeff. Oozes character. Love the steel supports, too.

hello Craig. The road that I model- the Big Four section of the New York Central had several towers on steel support frames like this tower.

Thanks to everyone who looked in. I appreciate the interest in my build thread. Till the next one.

[Janbouli]

What a great looking tower , love the awnings and the stairs came out very well.

[nycjeff]

Hello Jan, thanks for looking in and for the kind words. The awnings were a little tricky to get started but once I figured out the pattern they went pretty easily. The stairs came together by my use of the jig that I mentioned earlier in the thread.

[Jim Donovan]

Very, vey impressive, thank you for sharing the methods and results. I've mark this build to print out and build a version based on your work. Really nice.

Jim