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Office Building Made From Card Or Foam Core Board
There are all kinds of ways to approach the construction of this model railroad office building structure. The first thing is to decide what scale you want to use. The plan is in PDF format which you print on your home printer, so you just scale it to meet your needs – HO scale, OO gauge, N scale etc.
The next thing is to decide if you want to assemble it in full 3D with all sides visible. The other option is to make it as a low relief building for positioning against a wall on a backdrop. That way you could just construct the building frontage (1 side), or maybe construct the frontage and part of 2 sides and part of the roof.
The third thing to consider is what construction method you prefer. The building can be made very strong by just using card such as an old cornflakes pack. You can strengthen the corners if you wish, but it is optional. The other method is to use foam core board or core flute board, both of which are very rigid and available cheaply from a hardware DIY store.
This plan is available from http://www.modelbuildings.org/office-building-B424.html
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Pete, maybe your best bet is to choose a large railroad and get a book on the history of it. My own interest is in Conrail diesels through the years, from the older Penn Central and Erie Lackawanna to what Conrail had on its roster when the merger was made with CSX and Norfolk Southern. You can also check the railroad rosters online and see what they had, and then check The Diesel Shop online to see when a certain diesel was released.
John