Walthers N Scale Service Station

[unclescott58]

Being in love with automobiles all of my life. And growing up in the 1960’s. I always loved the places where one could see a lot of automobiles back then. The automotive service/gas station. One of favorite toys growing up? My Marx Service Stations of course. And being into N scale trains, I naturally have to have an N scale service station or two, for my future N scale layout. 

Since I got fairly positive response to show my N scale Smokey’s Signal gas station here, I thought I’d share another one that built about two years ago. And that is my Walthers Cornerstone N scale Al’s Victory Service. I didn’t want to build as Al’s Victory Service as shown on the box. Instead I wanted to build something closer in looks to the Pure Oil stations my dad almost always bought his gas at. Using the alternative decals included with the kit, I built “North Shore” Gas. Almost perfect. Pretty close to looking like my my beloved Pure Oil stations. Plus living in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and loving the famous North Shore drive on Lake Superior, north of Duluth, MN. The name is near perfect.

This is a very nice kit. Besides the alternative decals (more than just Al’s or North Shore), you get three choices of of pumps styles to choose from. The 40’s-early 50’s globe pumps you see here. Late 50’s-early 60’s, and late 60’s-early 70’s style pumps too. 

Now if I knew at the time that someone made N scale Pure Oil station decals, my choice for the build may have been a little different. Guess what? Somebody does make N scale Pure Oil station decals. Using a third style N scale gas station kit, guess what I’m now building? The sign in last photo should give you a clue. 

[unclescott58]

Oh! I forgot to include a photo of the box the kit came in. It should give you some ideas of alternative builds one can do with the kit. 

 

[slusher]

Very nice..