Pasadena Train Station Model - Part 7

 

I finished my model this weekend. All that is left now is to complete the landscaping.

The Train Table

Here is the completed train table. My friend Yung made it for me using birch plywood, poplar, and douglas fir. It is perfect, almost too nice for a train table. 

I will be attaching the track directly to the wood and leaving the layout as a nice piece of furniture suitable for the living room. As for now though, it has a nice place in my studio, under a series of train station paintings from my collection.

Pasadena Train Station Model - Part 2

As I mentioned in previous posts, I have sketched the Pasadena Train Station for years. Many years ago I would stop by in the evenings with my boys and wait for the evening westbound Amtrak to arrive. It is a beautiful station. These photos were taken before the station was relocated, and refurbished. The bottom two images are of a beautiful HO scale model built by Rich Cobb which is currently at the Whistle Stop train store in Pasadena.