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The centerpiece of Livingston Manor, this house was built by A.P. Dubois, a local businessman who owned the local general store and coal dealer. This was the prototype for the Branchline laser kit. This building still stands today. |
Across the street from his house was old A.P.'s store. By the 1950's it was Rudy Fuhrer's drug store. This building too became part of the Branchline Laser-Art line. The drug store sign was recreated on my computer from an old photo of the original. Looks like the painters stepped inside for one of Rudy's famous Ice cream sodas! |
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Livingston Manor Freight House/Wilfred Smith Feeds This building started was built as the Livingston Manor freight station, but was later purchased by Wilfred Smith and used as his feed store. On the platform is one of the only Coke machines in town. Built from drawings developed from photos field measurements of the original (This the only major O&W structure in the Manor still standing... but only just).
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Rockland Fuel This building was scratch built based on photos loaned to me by several members of the O&W society. The towers once held fine British ales - they're (empty) beer cans covered in sheet styrene! |
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Although not one of the, ummm.... more architecturally interesting buildings in town, the lumber company did a rather brisk business with the O&W over the years. On the layout this structure also serves a useful purpose - the back is open and it is used to store track cleaning supplies, spikes and un-coupling sticks - all useful stuff during an operating session! |
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The ten pin mill produced Royal bowling pins as well as Spaulding baseball bats and other wood products. The original was along shed with two ventilators on the roof. On my model the back half has fallen off the edge of the world - the proximity of edge of the benchwork meant that I could only model the front half. |
Water Tower The Livingston Manor Water Tower is a collaborative effort between myself and Mal Houck. Mal provided me with a resin cast roof and wood veneered section of PVC pipe. He then announced I had no more excuses for not having the water tank in place. Well, he was right. Some scratch built legs and details later, here she is. |
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High up on the tank some enterprising kid has scrawled his initials and that of his sweet heart. Amazingly enough, they match those of myself and my long suffering wife. Coincidence? I don't think so.... |
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Station The station was built from copies of original drawings reproduced in the NYO&W Historical Societies "Observer" To the right of the station is Heller's fed mill based on information supplied by Wil Sipple of the Roscoe O&W Museum. |
Heller's Feed Mill A close up of the feed mill. The building just to the left and behind the mill today houses the Roscoe O&W Museum. All the rest is now gone... |
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Built from O&W society blueprints the ice house is a standard O&W design used in several locations on the system. The tool house next to it is also scratch built to standard O&W plans. A laser-cut version of this building is also part of the Branchline Laser-Art line . |
Creamery The Roscoe creamery model is scratch built using parts cut on our laser at work. Its fun to have toys.....! |
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