Standard Two Story Combination Depot 1887, 20x64 - HO

The Great Northern Railway Historical Society Company Store is pleased to offer an HO scale kit of  the 20’ x 64’ two-story 1887 standard plan combination passenger and freight depot. Using blueprints from our archives at Jackson Street Roundhouse, the kit is custom made for you by Hidden River Manufacturing. The St. Paul & Pacific built its first two story-depot as early as 1872. Great Northern predecessor St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba built several depots to this design during 1887, the only year they were built. Subsequent two-story designs were 24 feet wide. Researcher Harold Hall has located 35 two-story depots at 36 locations across the system. These depots were placed at locations then on the fringe of civilization where housing for the station agent and his family was not likely to be available. The vast majority were built in Dakota Territory, with some in Minnesota. The Assiniboine, Montana, depot was moved to Box Elder, Montana, in 1911. This kit features: exterio