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Tad Miyano

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Water plug is scratchbuilt from styrene and basswood.  Reference is Frary/Hayden's article
and plans which was published in RMC in the 1960's


I first built styrene cube as core and attached basswood strips around it.
Water pipe is 1.5mm (.060") nickel silver rod bent to shape, a brass pipe which is
attached in center of cube held it and rotate freely. Added a few details as Grandt hinges
on door and valve handle from HO brake wheel. I will put it in Lynwood on my Moody River RR.


Covered water tank is built from Sandy River Car Shops Cooper's Mill kit. I had built it in the
mid-1980's and painted buff/brown, but recently repainted to the Moody River color
scheme. It will be placed in Laurel on Tad's layout.



Wilson Bros Creamery Co. building is scratchbuilt from styrene with Grandt door/window castings.  Tad built it from Peter Barney's New England Creamery plans in his structure book.  Tad's deviated from the prototype, replacing the large vent on the roof with two smaller vents, because he prefer's the appearance.  The prototype structure, which still exists, was located along the SR&RL Railroad at Strong, ME.


The rear of the Wilson Bros Creamery Co.


Another view of the rear of the Creamery


 
 The two photos above are of an octagonal shed (hydrant shed) built from Evergreen siding
and leftover paper shingle from Banta kit. Tad referred to Phillips shed plans published in MR
several years ago. Eight walls were not cut individually, only one piece of siding
scored and bent.


 


Tad's Lynwood station is a model of the SR&RL Strong station.  Tad built the model from a Banta Models
S scale Phillips station kit.  The SR&RL's Phillips station was identical to the Strong Station but longer.
 So conversion to of the kit is represent Strong was straight forward.  Art Fahie made the same conversion.
Art described his conversion on the Sn2_Trains list and in S/Sn3 Modeling Guide volume 8, issue 4.


An aerial view showing the roof of the depot.


Another end shot of the station.


A front/plan view of Tad's Lynwood station.  One can only guess that "Lynwood" is play on words and
another tribute to Linwood Moody, author of The Maine Two-Footers.  For construction photos, follow
the links below to Tad's personal site (in Japanese)
http://home.catv.ne.jp/dd/tmiyano/lynwoodst01.html
http://home.catv.ne.jp/dd/tmiyano/lynwoodst02.html



Section house built from a Portland Locomotive Works Maplewood station.


The original Maplewood station was a flag stop on the SR&RL

 



One of Tad's ideas for a turntable for small Sn2 equipment is to use the Peco n-scale turntable.