Help identifying a MP Depot

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  • February 9, 2019 at 12:47 am #6215
    mopac
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    Does this depot look familiar to anyone? I am hoping to determine what MP depot this is a model of. It was scratch built by Joe Collias and I was told it was a depot in Kansas. Here’s hoping someone can help me.
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    Thanks,
    Gene Semon

    February 9, 2019 at 2:40 am #9286
    princessclyne69
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    Really wild guess: Hardtner.

    RG7

    February 10, 2019 at 2:45 pm #7048
    peggyrothschild
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    Gene
    It strongly resembles Bonair, Arkansas (page 119 in the Iron Mountain book) but the freight door doesn’t match. MP/IM apparently didn’t stay with the ‘V’ type bay window design very long as there aren’t many photos around of this type.

    I might be wrong but rather than scratch built I think this is one of Bill Hoss’ LJM kits that never reached production. The clue is the laser cut windows and trim pieces. This is obviously not to take away from Joe’s master building as he did scratch build a lot of brass locomotives, freight cars and structures.

    February 11, 2019 at 10:54 pm #9290
    mopac
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    Charlie,

    Thanks. I hadn’t thought to look in the IM book. It appears Joe could have used this as this depot as the basis for a model, just added some length to it. His Russellville depot appears to be a compressed version of the IM depot.

    Gene

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