U.S. Mailboxes

One of the things missing from my layout are those characteristic US-style mailboxes.

Is there something available in N scale?

Michael

 

Don't feel bad; aside from outside the post offices, you can hardly find one anymore in the prototype world!

 

I have some of those mailboxes. Can't remember from what kit they came.

 

But in the 1980ies?

 

If you are referring to the blue mail collection boxes I believe they were part of a set put out by Model Power that included some green park benches, fire hydrants, and a few other items besides the mail boxes. Should be still available. There were also some rural mailboxes on a post once upon a time. Those were metal castings and either a Detail Associates or Sunrise cast part sold in small packs.

 

I do not refer to that set. I have no fire hydrants, unfortunately. The mailboxes were part of a kit with a house or shop, I think. I just can't remember what kit...

 

I remember that the blue mailboxes were part of a MP set.
And what about these?

http://www.sheryll.net/Ozzie/Mailboxes/Mailboxes_US_mailbox_b.jpg

 

I would like one of them too. But then for real, in my garden. :tb-biggrin:

 

The MP mailboxes don't look half bad actually... look over in the "Contest" MU thread and I've got one on the corner of the Winslow station. Like nearly everything, new paint fixes a lot of problems.

And they are still all over in my town at least.

As far as for the rural ones, if you got some Evergreen square styrene and file off the top edges and put on some stripwood, you'd be able to make them by the hundreds. Scale size they are no longer than about 24" even on the big ones.

 

I mean this mailbox (see picture).

 

My old station - Model power box, and other details........

 

I got one of those sets from Model Power years ago also and it came as stated earlier with a couple of Park Benches, I can't remember the label of the kit. Fit rite into a city scene.
I did a Google search
"Model Power Park Scene" they are still available
Good luck nice touch if possible

 

Is this what your looking for http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/490-1339

Ben

 

There is also this set with postal workers and a residential box:

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/490-1379

Detail Associates has a pewter cast drop box also:

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/229-8419

 

Looking at Puddington's station with its array of MP details got me to wondering. Sure, I remember those green garbage cans with the swinging lids--but I think they appeared in the 70's, right? For the life of me, I can't remember what we used for garbage cans in 1962. Obviously there weren't photographers out there documenting them for posterity, unless by accident--but I feel like no scene would be complete without at least one.

All I remember is a lot of oil barrels. Old, rusted oil barrels. But then I lived in the West.

Anyone else remember what we used for garbage cans back then?

 

A lot of places used a mesh cylinder about 40 inches tall, like an oversized wastepaper basket.

 

Or sometimes a wood slat cyliner kind of like a whiskey barrel, with a metal insert like a metal tube or mesh it depends.

 

Like this?

https://www.republiclocomotiveworks.com/show_item.php?ID=97

Mark

 

I wish it were that pretty. But no, it's something from an obscure plastic kit I think.