W.W.&F. Discussion Forum
WW&F Railway Museum Discussion => Museum Discussion => Topic started by: Jock Ellis on September 26, 2009, 03:44:01 PM
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Will the museum be selling plans for the reproduction shack that was placed in the tourist promotional place at Wiscasset? Also, what about licensing some laser-cut wood model manufacturer to make the buildings at Alna in various scales?
Jock Ellis
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We do have some laser cut buildings available. See the gift shop section of the Museum web site.
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Thanks, Mike. Are there any plans by the maker for other buildings besides Alna Station?
Jock Ellis
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I don't know that one.
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There are four or five manufacturers of WW&F Building kits - and the models available include Sheepscot/Alna Center Station, Head Tide Station, Weeks Mills Station, Water Tank, & Palermo Potato House - and probably others - see ads in M2FQ magazine and on M2FQ Discussion Forum among others.
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Allen,
I'm embarrassed to admit this but I've never heard of M2FQ. Are these kits in HO or, since lasercut can make any size, are there any bigger?
Also, back to my original question, what about full-size plans for the reproduction building you put in Wiscasset at the tourist center? I'd love to put one of those babies in my backyard.
Incidentally, the newsletter was outstanding, I thought. Will the attic of the enginehouse be insulated? If you used it as a meeting room, as close as you are to Canada, you could get Red Green to come down and lead the opening prayer, "I'm a two-foot railroader, but I can change if I have to. I guess."
Jock Ellis
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Jock,
M2FQ is Maine Two Foot Quarterly magazine, put out by Gary Kohler, with frequent articles by Chris McChesney - the same fellows that brought us the "Narrow Gauge in the Sheepscot Valley" series. The magazine is primarily on modeling Maine two-foot gauge (in HOn30 or On30, I think, but I don't pay much attention to the modeling articles).
As for the repro flag stop building, I'm sure for the right price Steve Z. would be willing to build you one. ;D
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Jock,
I'm glad you enjoyed the newsletter. I always feel a little guilty, as if I'm padding the newsletter, when I put in lots of pictures, but there always seem to be several favorable comments when there are lots of pictures, so maybe I shouldn't feel guilty. I haven't yet figured out whether a picture takes the same amount of space as 1000 words. ;)
John
Editor
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Steve might not mind building me one, but I doubt that he'd want to tote it down to Georgia. He couldn't ship it because down here, they use the unconventional 4-foot, eight and a half inch gauge.
What is the exterior of that building made of? Cedar shakes?
I'm glad photographs are put in the bulletin. I just hope some of them make it to the area newspapers for their use. The museum needs to get all the publicity it can garner to make the Maine locals want to ride.
The president of our Georgia Association of Railroad Passengers, an affiliate of NARP, manages to get quoted very often as a transportation expert. That gets our name in front of the public. Maybe the WW&F board members or president should write letters on transportation to the people who write about transportation in Maine and get quoted.
Jock Ellis
In a Georgia county which has no railroad tracks