Walthers N Scale Santa Fe Depot & Frieght House Quandry

[chuck geiger]

I am building the Walthers Cornerstone N scale Santa Fe depot and I swear it has most of the parts to
add the freight house, but not all of them, unless you buy the Freight House. It has the footprint, the
roof, and all of the doors and windows, but not the long sides, just one of the ends. Weird.
You have to buy the combo kit or the freight house separately.

[kiwi_al]

Oh crap, i bought one years ago - haven't built it yet. Thanks for the heads up

[chuck geiger]

Check this out KIWI.

This is most of the freight house, doors/windows, footprint, roof, and one side wall.






Footprint for Depot, the kit has all of the parts for a complete depot.

[kiwi_al]

Well at least I can build the depot but when I bought the kit like you I thought I was getting both. I'll have to find the box with it in and check. It looks pretty nice.

[chuck geiger]

it's a great kit, just confusing. Maybe another member can expound that has experience with WC kits that
have these dual representations.

Here it is almost complete.

[Lemosteam]

What does the back wall look like?  Is there a freight door on one end?  Looks looks to me that the station was half passenger and the other half freight, i.e., why two entry doors?

[chuck geiger]

No freight door on the depot, on the freight house attachment.

[Sokramiketes]

Maybe I'm not understanding, but yes, there are three versions from Walthers:

933-3803 Station Only
933-3804 Freight House Only
933-3805 Station and Freight House

Depending on how the molds worked out, you may get some component cross over in the frist two kits.  But unless you purchased the 3805 kit and it's missing pieces, that's how it should be. 

[pedro]

What does the back wall look like?  Is there a freight door on one end?  Looks looks to me that the station was half passenger and the other half freight, i.e., why two entry doors?

Not sure when that style of depot was built, but separate men’s and women’s waiting areas certainly was a 19th-century thing. Our local (C&NW) c.1884 small town depot was set up that way. Two doors with separate waiting areas, no freight door:

http://waynepreservationsociety.weebly.com

[thomasjmdavis]

Not sure when that style of depot was built, but separate men’s and women’s waiting areas certainly was a 19th-century thing. Our local (C&NW) c.1884 small town depot was set up that way. Two doors with separate waiting areas, no freight door:

http://waynepreservationsociety.weebly.com

I am not sure which ATSF station it is modeled on, but it was not uncommon in Texas, for a station to have racially segregated waiting rooms.  Note that the Texas Chief carried the only streamlined  "divided" coaches on the ATSF.  Ironically, when the Texas Chief was inaugurated after WWII, the divided coaches were the most modern cars on the train, the other coaches and sleepers being pre-war cars made available by re-equipping the Super Chief and El Capitan.

[chuck geiger]

Maybe I'm not understanding, but yes, there are three versions from Walthers:

933-3803 Station Only
933-3804 Freight House Only
933-3805 Station and Freight House

Depending on how the molds worked out, you may get some component cross over in the frist two kits.  But unless you purchased the 3805 kit and it's missing pieces, that's how it should be.

That's it!