Building a coach yard

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

The coach yard is looking good. Great to see it coming together. One day, maybe, I'll get around to mine.

Tom 

[nycjeff]

Hello Tom, it's nice to hear from you. I'm looking forward to your coach yard as well.

[nycjeff]

Continuing on...

Another look at the back platform. I didn't put many detail castings on the long platforms because they won't be seen after the passenger cars are put back in place.



A drone view of the coach yard with all of the pipes and platform details.



A ground level view of the coach yard



A closer look. There are more details on the front platform because this will be seen all the time. Many of the detail castings came from Details West. The quality of these castings is very high- there was little to none flash to clean up before painting.



The cross track pipe rack was built with material from my styrene parts stash. I put it together with super glue and then painted it with a rattle can dark camo color and then weathered it with some pastel chalks. The bend in the red pipe is the flexible part of the drinking straw and the smaller pipe bend is a piece of plastic sprue painted to match the wood dowels.

[Keep It Rusty]

Looking fantastic, Jeff!

[nycjeff]

Hello Craig, thanks for looking in and for the kind words.

[nycjeff]

A closer look at the cross tracks pipe rack. I didn't want to continue the overhead pipes all the way to the engine service area boilerhouse, so I scratchbuilt a little structure with the pipes coming into the roof as if the rest of the pipes were underground. I don't know how prototypical this is but I'm applying Rule #1 here.



Here is the front platform with passenger cars backed in. I'm glad that I shortened the height of the pipe stands, I think everything looks better with the pipes just above the roofs of the cars.



A drone view of the coach yard with the cars. I'm very happy with how my coach yard came out. The area is still a storage place for my extra passenger cars on the layout where they can be seen and now the area has some purpose.



Another look from above. The car roofs are more dusty than weathered, but to my mind they look good.



A ground level look across the top of the coach yard. A final shot, I'm very happy with my coach yard. It's a nice addition to my layout and it's one that you don't see very often. Thanks again to Cliff Powers for the inspiration.

[craftsmankits]

That came out really nice.  Might have to try that one day.

[GPdemayo]

Looks great Jeff.....

[nycjeff]

Hello Mark and Greg, thank you for taking the time to comment on my coach yard project thread. It was a lot of fun to build and once again, I have to thank the amazing Cliff Powers for the inspiration.

[Jerry]

Beautiful work!!  Great coloring on those pipes.

Jerry

[nycjeff]

Hello jerry, thanks for looking in and for the kind words. The pipes in my coach yard were flexible drinking straws and wooden skewers. I used rattle can flat red and grey primers as a base coat and then dry brushed several rust colors for the final look.