In 1953 the New Haven Railroad constructed a new diesel engine house, while eliminating the roundhouse and turntable in Worchester. Because the NH and the Boston and Maine shared the engine facility, the NH loaned the B&M RS-3's to cover some of there trains to completely eliminate steam using the facility. The new engingene house has two through stalls and a shorter annex on one side for various workshops and such. It was located on the Providence and Worcester leg of the yard, which is triangular shape. The building itself is a steel frames building covered with corrugated metal for the siding and roof. On the north end of the building, a new sanding tower was constructed to service two tracks.
I am using the Walthers rolling mill from there steel mill series. The kit is a very large structure and will leave me lots of material left over for other kitbasing projects. The sanding tower is also from Walthers. It is a very close match to the one the NH installed. The prototype is mounted on 4 to 6 foot tall concrete piers.
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| Here is the engine house with an uncut section of roof. The column for the sanding tower is also here |
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| Here is the south end of the engine house. I accidently broke off the center piece between the two doors |
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| The north end with the column for the sanding tower. I am thinking of making the building more narrow by removing a portion of the one story annex. I also still need to add openings for the windows and doors. |
I had built a cardboard mock up, but I wanted to at least get the building started to see if I could determine exactly the space it will take up and plan out the rest of the yard.
