Skykomish Depot - HO

Skykomish Depot The Company Store is proud to offer an HO-scale, laser-cut kit of the 24’ x 106’ Great Northern Skykomish depot as it was in the 1950’s. The wooden station platforms and interior walls are included. This structure was built in 1898 as a 24 x 60 depot and was located south of the main track which was south of the yard. Also in 1898, the Skykomish Lumber Company was established and soon built a mill beside the main track along the curve west of the yard. In 1906 the lumber company began a logging railroad that ran south of the GN for about a mile and crossed the railroad and the Skykomish River on a wooden Howe Truss bridge just east of the GN wye. The company, its mill, and logging railroad, was acquired by Blodell-Donovan in 1917. The depot was relocated to the north side of the main line and rebuilt to its final 24 x 106 size in 1922 to clear the ground for the addition of three additional yard tracks and to improve public access to the depot since the bulk of the town