Page 14 - All Scale Rails Magazine Issue 13 March April 2017

www.AllScaleRails.com

View 2

The O scale layout that is housed there the baggage room for the station where an
today is actually the third variation of the extended portion of the layout now resides.
Milwaukee Union Terminal Railway, the But we will come to that later. The aisle
first having been a portable layout before around this portion of the main room layout
acquiring this location and the other that narrows and you find yourself sandwiched
survived until the major renovation of 1950. between two segments of history: the vintage
But that’s a story for another day. layout to your left and the historical station on
When you first walk into the station, you your right.
are instantly transported to another time and
place. The ceiling of the main room is cov-
ered in original tin ceiling tiles. In the cen-
ter of the room, you can still see the stairs
that passengers used to climb to get to the
platform on the tracks above the station.
Bricks glazed and fired to look like shiny
white tiles line the walls of the stairwell that
is now closed off to all foot traffic.
Off to your right is the ticket window
and, behind it, the room that now serves as
an office for the club. Just past the ticket View 3 Allis Station
window is a doorway into what was once

14 All Scale Rails