Building the Cranberry Depot

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Cranberry Depot, Cranberry, NC

Our garden railway, the Cranberry and Linville River Railroad was started in 2000. For almost 20 years I have been planning or at least planning on building the Cranberry depot. The photo above is the depot before the freight section was extended. We are modelling the longer version, albeit with the freight section compressed.

We are using expanded PVC board with .250×250″ styrene interior bracing and battens for the walls. The roof is also PVC with styrene representing the ribs on the roof. The windows were drawn in Sketch Up by my son, Zach and printed by Shapeways. The trim, office door and freight doors are styrene. The loading platforms are PVC sheet with styrene bracing and clad in redwood strips cut on my table saw. Zach also drew the chimney and my daughter printed it using her new 3D printer. Zach did the painting on the chimney. The styrene is glued to the PVC using Weld-On 1802.

The numbers…
129 Battens
59 Roof ribs
248 Wood planks for platforms
114 Rafter tails

Sides and ends.

Progress photo, sides before the battens were applied.
Test fit of the long section of roof. Check out the 3D printed chimney.

Progress Photo – Partially completed bay window section and platform.
The platforms are completed. The substructure is pvc sheet and styrene bracing. I ripped redwood on my table saw to make 2X6s and 2X10s.
The sides painted in ET&WNC colors. The baggage doors need to be glued in before the roof can be installed.

The roof completed and test fitted.
The completed depot installed. The roof was painted with red primer and sealed with Vallejo matte varnish.

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