Two Stations and Two Scales

Two Stations and Two Scales are seen in this picture. 

The 4 mm scale (OO) Southern Railway station in Padstow, Cornwall, England is on the left. The track layout is for this station. The latest project is an ex-London and South Western now Southern Railway 10 Ton Diagram 1406 van at the lower left of the photo.  It is a Cambrian Model Railways kit. Getting the right Southern Railway brown led me after a lot of trials to Vallejo Model Color paints (not Vallejo Model Air paints) and of all things a color called German Camouflage Black Brown.

The train at the station platform is the 11:18 AM Padstow to Bodmin local via Wadebridge, Grogley and Nanstallon halts, diverging at  Boscarne Junction into the Bodmin (Central) SR station arriving about noon. The Great Western Railway also had a station at Bodmin and trackage rights from Boscarne Junction to Wadebridge. The GWR trackage diverged at Boscarne Junction to go to Bodmin (General) GWR station and then to Bodmin Road station on the GWR mainline to Penzance. You can ride today from Bodmin Road to Boscarne Junction on the preserved Bodmin and Wenford Railway. Often behind Southern Railway steam.

In my model world the GWR is allowed to continue to Padstow twice daily although this was not allowed until after nationalization of all British railways on January 1, 1948. My British side follows the common Ready to Run standard using 4 mm to the foot scale and HO 16.5 mm track gauge. 

The train at the platform consists of a Kernow/DJM Adams O2 0-4-4 and two of the new Hornby 1935 Maunsell rebuilds of LSWR non-corridor coaches. A clarification to Americans; English locomotives and passenger car classes usually include the name of the reigning Chief Mechanical Officer of the railway at the time the cars and engines are built. Hence Bulleid, Adams and Maunsell were all at one time CME's of the Southern Railway.  

The 3.5 mm scale (HO) Southern Pacific Walnut Creek station mock up is on the right. When in full Padstow mode, the long fish dock and loading sheds occupy this location. Progress on a full model of the Walnut Creek station is currently stalled until I find solutions for the Queen Anne architectural style details of the building.

In front of the SP station on the through track are a pair of (close enough) SP 60-CC-1 Chair Cars bashed from Model Power Harrimans.  I invested heavily in these inexpensive toy cars to give them an SP look with Star Brand SP-UP Olive paint, Microscale and Thinfilm decals, Prescision Scale seats and roof Globe vents, Walthers Pullman trucks, Cal-Scale UC brake sets and scratch built generators and battery boxes.