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Glenarm Station |
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I used to live not far from Glenarm, long after the M&P rails were pulled up in 1958, though. I was always fascinated with the little station there.
This is in no way a scale model of the prototype, but it catches some of the flavor, and that's really what I was after.
The building is built completely from scratch, including the windows. The signs were printed out on the computer. The timetable on the wall is the actual schedule for the station in 1952. |
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I store my structure indoors so I don't worry too much about them being weather-proof. The floor is cut from a 1x12, and the walls are 1/4 birch bead-board paneling I had left over from a redecorating project. The roof is 3/8" plywood with cedar shakes glued on. The trim boards are 1/4" x 1/2" redwood, ripped from tomato stakes purchased in bulk at Wal-Mart. The windows are constructed of Evergreen strip styrene, and painted white. Whaddya know? Scale Vinyl Replacement Windows! The building sits on a bed of stone, which keeps the moisture down under it for those long summer days. I did leave it out one night, and found that a big wood beetle had moved in. He was evicted, and the buildings are faithfully put away in the garage after each operating session. |
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Here's the interior. The furniture is courtesy of Dollar Tree, and the clock, scale and type-writer come from a doll house supplier. The hogsheads came from Ben Franklin.
My Dad installed the flooring and trim, and painted the interior.
Our little station agent is working on a set of flimsies to hand up to the engineer when the Baltimore Mail comes through in a few hours. If you were in a hurry, you didn't ride the M&P! |
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Here's our little dude hard at work again. Once I posted this I realized he had achieved the true "paperless" office. He also needs a candlestick phone to keep in touch with the dispatcher downtown, and the other agents along the line. The Ma & Pa was not noted for it's high-tech signaling systems, although they were among the first railroads in the nation to sport an automatic flashing grade crossing, which was not far from Glenarm. |
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