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Based on an Ogle design, the Walthers Cornerstone Modern Coaling Tower will be a focal point in any engine terminal. As larger engines entered service, many railroads found their older coaling towers couldn't handle the increased demand. By the 1920s, railroads began contracting with outside firms to build new coaling towers. Concrete was the material of choice as it was easy to use, affordable, fireproof and weatherproof. Towers like this were built in yards at servicing facilities as well as along the mainline to refuel engines on the road. This plastic model features realistic concrete walls plus detailed chutes and mechanisms. Like the prototype, it can serve three tracks at once, making it an ideal choice for maximizing service in minimum space. The same sturdy construction that made these towers appealing to railroads also made them hard to demolish. With its metal parts removed for scrap, the Modern Coaling Tower could still be standing in a contemporary scene, a reminder of how things used to be. Based on a typical North American railroad structure Serves three tracks Includes coal delivery shed Loaded with separate details Includes decals signs Molded in appropriate colors  Measures: Tower: 8-5/8 x 8-3/4 x 12-1/4" or 21.5 x 21.8 x 30.6cm Dumphouse: 8-5/8 x 1-3/8 x 1-3/8" or 21.5 x 3.4 x 3.4cm

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The Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale City Station harks back to the time when the depot was an indicator of a community's success. Railroads built large, elaborate stations at more important towns that generated a lot of freight and passenger business for the line. Others, such as the county seat, were of local importance. And in some, competition from other railroads led to the building of a bigger and better station facility. The focal point of your city scene, this depot is based on a prototype structure at Wausau, Wisconsin, but is typical of larger, fancier stations built throughout the US. In addition to standard features like the agent's bay window and waiting room, this handsome building boasts a covered end platform and an attached baggage room. Perfect for serving steam-era heavyweights or diesel-era streamliners, you can complete your station with the Wood Station Shed and Platform (933-3188) sold separately. The City Station is one of a wide variety of Cornerstone HO Scale railroad buildings.  Classic brick passenger station - similar designs used by many railroads Fits early 1900s to the present Prototype still stands in Wausau, Wisconsin Covered end platform Attached baggage room Easy-to-build plastic kit Molded in appropriate colors plus clear glazing The City Station measures: 17-5/8 x 5-7/8 x 4-3/8" or 44.8 x 14.9 x 11.1cm

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Back when an order for "sinkers and suds" brought you donuts and coffee, gleaming stainless steel restaurants like the Walthers Cornerstone Miss Bettie's Diner sprang up from coast to coast. Resembling railroad dining cars, these structures became hallmarks of the streamline era. Miss Bettie's Diner brings the glitz of those days to the streets of your layout. It's a natural on Main Street or just outside of town along a busy highway. Like the prototypes, this detailed, easy-to-build plastic kit (the prototypes were kits too!) includes streamlined fluted sides, large windows and a complete interior with tables, stools and counter, plus a small outdoor refrigerator shed and colorful signs. Streamlined diner for 1930s to the present layouts Fluted sides, large windows Complete interior Colorful signs Easy-to-build plastic kit Molded in appropriate colors Measures: Diner: 6 x 2-7/8 x 1-5/8" or 15 x 7.1 x 4cm, Refrigerator Shed: 1-1/8 x 1-1/8 x 1-3/4" or 2.8 x 2.8 x 4.3cm

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A Trackside Business for Every EraThe Walthers Cornerstone Clayton County Lumber is a model of one of the most common trackside businesses. From tiny town to big city, small trackside warehouses are used by companies of every size and kind because they provide a handy place to store and protect merchandise shipped or delivered by rail. This versatile kit features four separate corrugated-metal buildings that are perfect for your steam or diesel-era railroad. Split them up and use them in several places along your railroad, or combine them into larger facilities. One building has an angled end wall to fit inside or outside a curved siding so it can be used in odd-shaped spaces. Signs for several businesses are also included in the Clayton County Lumber kit.  Four corrugated-metal buildings with positionable doors One building with an angled wall allows easy placement along curved sidings Signs for several businesses Molded in appropriate colors Easy-to-build plastic kit   Building 1: 4 x 4-1/2 x 3" or 10 x 11.2 x 7.5cm, Building 2: 9 x 4-1/4 x 3-1/2" or 22.5 x 10.6 x 8.7cm, Building 3: 5-3/4 x 3-1/4 x 2-5/8" or 14.3 x 8.1 x 6.5cm, Building 4: 5-3/4 x 3-3/8 x 3-1/2" or 14.3 x 8.4 x 8.7cm

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The prototypes for Walthers Cornerstone State Line Farm Supply offer farm implements, repair services and more. During the steam era, many of these businesses received machinery by rail in boxcars or on flatcars; the pieces were usually unloaded at a nearby trackside ramp. In the modern era, as urban areas crept further outward, these buildings found new occupants like auto dealers, mechanics, garden centers and more, in distinctly suburban areas. This versatile barrel-roofed building features a detailed, decorative brick facade and garage doors - perfect for any auto or equipment dealer needing work space. Also included are a trackside unloading ramp and oil and fuel tanks. The two supplied rear walls allow you a choice of large doors or windows, and decals with a variety of business names make customizing easy! Drive through any town (or suburb) today and you'll still see plenty of similar structures, so State Line Farm Supply will look at home on your post-1920s layout.  Perfect for your layout's rural towns or modern suburbs Customize with either of two different rear walls Includes trackside unloading ramp Realistic decal signs for several businesses Fits steam or diesel eras Easy-to-build plastic kit Molded in appropriate base colors plus clear glazing The finished structures measure: Building: 7-1/4 x 5-3/8 x 3" Ramp: 7-7/8 x 2 x 5/8" Fuel Tank: 1-1/8 x 1 x 1-5/8" Heating Oil Tank: 7/8 x 3/8 x 3/4"

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Bakeries are dependent on railroads for raw materials and the Walthers Cornerstone Magic Pan Commercial Bakery is no exception. This easy-to-build plastic kit is a great, unique industry for your post-1960s HO Scale railroad. The kit includes a main building with truck loading doors, four storage silos with piping and more. At the real plants, flour and sugar arrive in Airslide(R) or other kinds of covered hoppers and vegetable oil and corn syrup in tank cars, while finished bakery goods are shipped by truck. The Magic Pan Commercial Bakery buildings are easily arranged to fit your available space. You'll also find this kit great for other businesses such as a plastic molding plants or chemical distributors. This is just one of many Cornerstone industrial buildings. Great for 1960s and later HO layouts Arrange structures to fit available space Realistic bulk storage silos with realistic piping Truck dock doors with weather diaphragms Realistic office entrance Decal signs Molded in appropriate colors As shown Magic Pan Commercial Bakery measures 16 x 8 x 3-1/2" or 40.6 x 20.3 x 8.8cm.

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This Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Diesel House model is patterned after structures used by railroads across the continent. At many yards, the diesel house is a hotbed of activity. Arriving locomotives are run through the structure where mechanics check them over and make light repairs and adjustments. If major defects are noted, the units are bad ordered and shipped off to the road's backshop for further work. Perfect for use alongside other Walthers engine servicing facility structures, this kit includes realistic interior inspection walkways and below-track inspection pits. There's even room inside for adding the Overhead Traveling Crane, 933-3102 (sold separately) for more authenticity. The building holds diesels up to 17" long on three tracks - perfect for classic or modern diesels. Buildings like this are still in use across the land, so the Diesel House will look at home on your 1950s or later pike. The Diesel House is one of many Cornerstone HO Scale railroad buildings.  Based on a must-have diesel servicing structure Interior Inspection Pits, Platforms and Craneway Use with classic or modern power Hold locos up to 17" 43.1cm long Molded in appropriate colors with clear plastic window glazing Kit - 9-1/4 x 16-7/8 x 6-1/2" or 23.5 x 42.8 x 16.4cm

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The Walthers Cornerstone Lakeville Modern-Style Warehouse brings a general-use warehouse to your 1960s and later industrial parks. Based on a structure with a concrete-block foundation and corrugated metal superstructure, buildings like this can be found across the continent. This kit is a welcome addition to any industrial park. Use it as a destination for boxcars and trucks as well as for light manufacturing. This kit includes multiple truck doors, a railcar door for cars to be unloaded inside and a wall section with windows to simulate a small office.   Fits layouts from the 1960s to the present Block foundation with metal upper structure Can be built in multiple configurations Includes alternate doors and windows Correct height truck and railcar loading docks with weather bellows-seals Customize in minutes with molded cut lines, expand with additional kits or build bigger with add-on accessories available separately Great trackside customer by itself or serving a larger industry Separate doors and windows Molded in multiple colors and clear plastic As shown, Lakeville Modern-Style Warehouse measures: 12 x 19 x 4" or 30.5 x 48.3 x 10.2cm

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Cornerstone Series Open-Air Transload Building Combines Style And FunctionThe Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Open-Air Transload Building makes it easy for customers to add a typical post-War freight transfer facility near their yard or team track. By the 1950s many railroads had outgrown freight houses and other facilities constructed in the early 1900s. The move to larger trucks for final cargo delivery also dictated a purpose-built transload. The kit features a large concrete loading dock, enclosed staging warehouse and sheltered dock. It's patterned after a Santa Fe prototype but is similar to others used across the continent and is a great destination for boxcars and flatcars. It's a natural for detailing with pallets, drums, sacks and forklifts (sold separately) and makes a great stop for way freights and switchers if you're into prototype operations. Use the Open-Air Transload Building among other Cornerstone HO Scale railroad buildings.  Easy-to-build plastic kit Fits any North American steam or diesel-era railroad from the 1950s to the 1990s Includes ramps, docks and canopies Molded in appropriate colors As shown the Open-Air Transload Building measures: 25 x 5-1/4 x 3" or 63.5 x 13.3 x 7.6cm

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Based on a typical two-track design, the Walthers Cornerstone Wood Coaling Tower will be a focal point in any engine terminal. Towers like this were built in yards at servicing facilities as well as along the mainlines and branchlines to refuel engines on the road. This easy-to-build plastic model features a realistic coal bunker plus detailed chutes and mechanisms. A hopper unloading shed sits along one side for receiving coal. Like the prototype, it can serve two tracks at once, making it an ideal choice for maximizing service in minimum space. Place it in the vicinity of a roundhouse or engine shed, turntable, water tank and sand tower and you'll have a complete engine servicing facility for your railroad. The Wood Coaling Tower could still be standing in a late-steam or early-diesel era scene, a reminder of how things used to be. Based on a typical North American railroad structure Serves two tracks Includes coal delivery shed Loaded with separate details Includes decal signs Molded in appropriate colors  Servicing track centers are 2-1/2" 6.4cm Hoist track is 3-1/2" 8.9cm from centerline of track under the tower.

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  Keep your HO diesel fleet ready for the road with the Cornerstone 130' Brick Diesel House. Typical of purpose-built facilities that began appearing in the 1930s and are still used today, this detailed structure kit features: Based on a Milwaukee Road prototype - similar facilities used by many railroads Fits layouts from the 1930s to the present day Must-have structure for engine terminals and shops Easily adapted to other types of industries Separate office can be installed on left or right side Slotted base accepts popular rail sizes (rail sold separately) Modeler-installed under track inspection pits Separate windows, doors, roof vents and downspouts Molded in three colors Measures: Main Building: 18-1/2 x 8-1/4 x 4-3/4" or 47 x 21 x 12cm Track Centers: 3-1/4" or 8.2cm Office: 7-3/16 x 3-11/32 x 2-13/16" or 8.5 x 18.3 x 7.1cm

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Build Scrap Metal Traffic on Your Railroad The old sayings "everything old is new again" and "one man's trash is another's treasure" certainly applies to salvage businesses like the Walthers Cornerstone Washington Salvage Yard. Today, the range of man-made materials being recycled into new products is growing and includes all kinds of metals, rubber, plastics, paper and more. Combining office and a large work area into one structure, Washington Salvage is typical of the main buildings at many businesses, especially today's materials recycling facilities found in many communities. And, this combination of brick office and steel garage structure has been common since the 1960s, so your model could also serve as a county or city highway department garage, bus barn for a local mass transit authority, construction company offices, a railroad maintenance vehicle garage, truck or farm equipment dealership or any one of hundreds of similar businesses. Scrap yards, the steel industry and economic markets are closely linked. The demand, and the price paid for scrap governs how long a yard will store or how quickly it sells its scrap. If demand or prices are low for any product, volumes for that product build up and the piles get high. When demand and prices rise, stored volumes are sold off quickly to generate a profit. Washington Salvage Scrap Yard is actually two businesses - an auto salvage business and a scrap business. Washington Salvage Scrap Yard models include easy-to-build plastic kits like the main garage and office, as well as cast-resin ready-to-use scenery details like junk auto piles. Check out all of the Washington Salvage Scrap Yard and related kits!  Great headquarters building for metal processors or industries handling scrap steel Corrugated metal garage with brick office annex Great for use as a maintenance garage for railroad or industrial vehicles Easy-to-build plastic kit Molded in appropriate base colors Main Building: 8-3/8 x 9-1/4 x 3-1/2" or 21.2 x 23.4 x 8.8cm Scale: 8-5/8 x 1-7/8" 21.9 x 4.7cm

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