I'm looking for examples of railroad rolling stock displayed under a roof (not in a building). I've included an example of what I'm looking for below (thank you steamlocomotive.com).

If you know of something, can you please let me know so I can track down some pictures? I'm trying to build an 'idea file' for this type of display method. If anyone has some ideas on 'best practices' for designing one of these, I'm all ears for that information too.

Thanks,
Paul

Paul Krueger
Secretary
Cascade Rail Foundation
"Remembering the Milwaukee Road in Washington"
http://www.milwelectric.org

Antigo, WI.
Simple, durable design. Doesn't detract much from the exhibit, and gives a good view of equipment on display. Also has a style that captures the look of an old train station shelter.

The Fake Chicago & North Western by jterry618, on Flickr

Paul -

If you're going to be designing and building one of these shelters from scratch, try not to build one like that covering Georgia Northern 2-8-2 #105. The posts are too close to the locomotive for photography. It's okay to keep them close on one side (for visitors to get next to the engine), but try to move them back from the loco on the other. The Antigo, Wisconsin shelter is much better, but the posts are still too close on one side and blocks the locomotive from decent "wedge" photos. Yes, I know that moving the posts back means increased costs, but if you're going to build such a structure, do it right the first time. My opinion only of course.

Les

Whatever style you choose, I would recommend a smooth finished surface under the roof to prevent birds from nesting.

Alan Maples

B&M 494 at White River Jct.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopi ... x?id=84127

Here's, um, two.

Hey Robert, whats with the guy in dreadlocks peering at us from the cab of the little electric?

That's the host of the TV show Overhaulin'. Pretty appropriate considering the work being done.

Taylor

Besides detracting from photography, how much protection from the elements is there when the roof ends so close to the locomotive? For that matter how protective are roofs at all, presuming a location that goes through full four seasons?

Steve

I don't have any pictures of it myself but at the Monticello Railway Museum in Monticello Illinois we have a really nice looking train shed near the depot.

Dave H.

Here are a few more examples. The first in Abingdon, VA and the other in Nashville. I hear the Stripe in Nashville has been cleaned up a bit since.

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, has a beautiful CNR Pacific under a shed, screened from the roof to underground with chain link fence. Almost impossible to photograph her, but it keeps the "rats" out.

Then there's this extreme, which keeps El Paso & Southwestern 1 out of the heat and sun to some extent:


http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/1c6521/

nkp 779

Camilla, GA
Good looking shelter. I like the I-beams a lot. But the silver chain-link fencing is a major distraction, and is not attractive. Choose fence material that is black.


Camilla Georgia Railroad Steam Engine Locomotive Albany and Northern No. 9, a Baldwin 2-8-2 by georgiabees.blogspot.com John Pluta, on Flickr