Building a Yardmaster's Office

摘要

For many years, I've wanted to create a small building that would serve as a Yardmaster's Office for the Cimarron & Tall Timbers Railroad engine facility. While I'm calling it a Yardmaster's Office, there really isn't much of a yard located there. The little building serves as a meeting place, where car shop, engine house, and coaling tower crewmen can congregate and catch up on company business. The building started as a paper mock-up to see what size looked best in the location between the large wooden coaling tower and sand house along one of the leads to the two-stall engine house. I ended up scratchbuilding a small wooden structure that is a scale 32 feet wide by 22 feet, 4 inches deep, and 16 feet tall.