Monday, November 4, 2024

Worcester Engine House Part 1

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.
 


Here is the engine house with an uncut section of roof.
The column for the sanding tower is also here

Here is the south end of the engine house. I accidently
broke off the center piece between the two doors 

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. 

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