Monday, 31 December 2018

Structures for my Hanley Spur Layout

As I complete structures for my HO scale Hanley Spur home layout, I'll post images here, along with links to the construction posts for each one!

So far, I have the Grand Trunk/CN Outer Station:

Added the breezeway connecting the original 1856 limestone station to the 1895 addition:
Millard & Lumb, at Wellington Street at Place d'Armes:

Revitalized signage:
 Anglin's coal, oil and lumber business at Bay & Wellington Streets and around Kingston:
The limestone Imperial Oil warehouse at North Street:





Structure flats - MacCosham Movers at left, Weston's Bakeries at right:
 Weston's Bakeries:
A typical Swamp Ward house (pre-layout) 
Wellington Street at Bay St - The Bajus Brewery:
Cataraqui Street - the National Grocers warehouse:
 Next-door neighbour - the Bailey broom factory:
Across the tracks on Cataraqui Street - reworked Woolen Mill structural flat:
C.E. Macpherson metal works: 
CN Express freight shed at the Outer Station:


The City (Steam) Laundry at 294 Wellington Street:

A Montreal Street garage - Provincial Tire
The Kingston Whig-Standard newsprint warehouse on Rideau Street just south of Cataraqui St: 
Ramshackle remnants - CN toolsheds at the top of the Hanley Spur just east of the Outer Station:
Dyeco at River and Orchard Streets. A little-known dye and chemical industry that's still operating!
A much-reduced footprint (bootprint?) for the Davis Tannery:
And a short time later, a re-do of the foreground tannery building
A deconstructed ex-industry, one of Kingston's modern-day brownfield sites:
K-D Manufacuring on Montreal Street:.
The so-called Commandant's House, overlooking the Inner Harbour:
The S. Anglin Co. office building - Bay and Wellington Streets.
Rideau Street School/King's Town School. This will probably end up as its circa 1970 Warren plumbing supply, as it was during my modelled era.
Structural flat representing Presland Iron and Steel, originally Reliance Moulding.


4 comments:

  1. Eric, you're doing a great job of capturing recollections along the spur. Mine go back 50 years, and my photographic record is full of holes that you're filling in. Love the CN toolsheds and Millard & Lumb, and your outer station looks much better than what's left of the original.
    John.

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  2. Thanks very much for your comment, John. I'm doing my best, just remember these may not be architecturally-correct structure models, but they fill holes on my layout and give the trains reasons to call on each industry's spur. My recollections, like yours, miss most of the heyday of many of these buildings in their original form, but it's sure enjoyable to look back and wallow in nostalgia!

    Eric

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  3. I am enjoying recollections of my childhood. I am 78 and grew up on Rideau st. Thank you for your hard work

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  4. A., great to hear from you. I am learning about where you grew up - it only took me a few decades to catch up! Thanks for your comment,
    Eric

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