Exquisite. Now that you've got the (almost) ends of the country covered, can you be gently persuaded to do something a little close to the centre? There's a late-1980s board-and-batten GTR design that's fairly common in Ontario, with a number still in existence (Newmarket, Aurora, Maple, Milton, and others). I have drawings in an old CNRHA drawings package, and a metric buttload of photographs of the Newmarket station, both overall and details from various angles. There are also other standard-pattern stations across the prairies that could be popular with the tiny population of CN Z-scale modellers. Grain elevators...? Are you planning to do such things in the larger scales as well? Demand should be much higher.
My Brookfield station is available in N scale as well as Z. The Fort Langley Station is made in N, TT and HO by another company, so I will only be doing it in Z. Grain elevators are something I have not thought about, I'll have to explore that idea. I don't suppose the Newmarket plans you mentioned are in a electronic format?
Oh man, grain elevators would be nice! Some of us like to not deal with all the "fiber" models out there.
As of today, here is the list of available MTL laser kits at Micro-Trains ... your favorite dealers may have more than this available https://www.micro-trains.com/index.php?_route_=z-scale/kit-structures-1523649696 The 'contact dealer' means that MTL no longer has it in stock ... and dealers may have more stock than what is listed.
Hi, Frank. As a z scale dealer have you heard/did I miss if MTL or Miller Engineering will ever offer new buildings? Both had great kits but haven't had anything new in the building kits offerings in a long time. The MTL offerings of logging/waterfront buildings has dwindled down to remaining inventory. Any chance they will offer another round of buildings? Miller seems to be concentrating on the Lightworks line. Some new kits would be well received, I'm sure. Jim
I have already asked both ... not MTL recently, but definitely many communications with Miller. Both are not showing their cards in the discussions; just listening to my requests for new kits. For you and anyone else reading this and wanting their kits again - I think it is best to hit both of these manufacturers as end users ... it is always good to send them messages asking them to enter the market again. The more people reaching out to them, the more interested they may become in doing something about it. If we sit here in message boards wondering when it will happen, it will not send the same message as a direct communication.
The drawings that I have are paper only, part of a CNRHA package (lots of other standard structures as well) and specifically for the Milton station. I've not done a detailed comparison between that and the others mentioned, but, with the exception of Newmarket, they should be identical save for some minor cosmetic style differences. Newmarket had the baggage area extended many years ago. I have lots of photographs of Newmarket (film) and could either scan those or possibly take another batch digitally, but there may be a chain link fence along the track side now. Aurora and Maple should be easy enough to photograph, and I don't think that Milton would be too hard to find - it's been moved to a park or something similar. I've also got a full set of blueprints (directly from NSC many years ago) for the NSC 413000-413199 boxcars, as modelled by Atlas, plus simplified H0 three-view drawings of that and the CP version, and can lend a set of 1/29 scale resin body and roof castings for the CN version if you wanted to try rolling stock. It might take me a while to find the blueprints and drawings, however. They could be at the wrong end of a twenty-foot sea container, and I'll not be emptying that out for at least a year. I'm still hunting for decent photographs of all four sides of the Newmarket freight shed. I may have those soon.
Here's a station I would like to do, the old Belleville Grand Trunk station. Built with cut stone walls:
First build of the Fort Langley station nearly complete. Just need to add the shingles the the chimneys.
The Belleville station would be a good choice. The Kingston Outer Station (now just a sad, sad ruin) http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2013/02/cns-kingston-outer-station-part-1.html is similar, but not identical. I can take photographs and basic measurements if you need them, as I pass buy there fairly frequently.
The grain elevators where made for MTL by Robert Ray. Rob just retired (from corporate work) and will re-opening his laser business January next year, in a BIG way.
Kit contents (8 pieces) walls, 3 roof sections, platform, back doorstep and 2 chimneys. Not shown - roofing sheet.
I photographed Belleville Station on Saturday, and measured its length and width. I neglected to measure the roof overhang, but should be able to get that tomorrow on my way home if I can leave early enough. PM me your e-mail address and I'll send the photographs. The fake owl on the northwest corner of the roof is not going to show up well in this scale. I did not even notice it until I was looking at the photographs.
