Courtright Station, Canada Southern, New York Central, Michigan Central Railroad
A recent project of mine is to build a model of the Courtright Train Station. I have acquired a few photograph’s from John Riley that he had taken of the station in the 1960’s in order to build an HO scale model. Those of us interested in the railroads are fortunate that people like John have taken these photograph’s and given us a glimpse of what railroads were like in the past. I intend to make a 1/24 scale model of the station for my out door Garden Railroad. I would also like to get some drawings made so any one can recreate the station in the scale they model in. I remember this station from when I was a child. The station was a turned into a location for a ferry crossing for automobiles. Our family had crossed there a few times to visit realitives state-side before it was closed down. I am always looking for information and photo’s of the stations in Lambton County so, if you know of any please contact me.
This is a station I’m interested in as well (for modelling purposes), I’d be very interested in drawings of it, or at the very least some dimensions I could work with!
Do you know of any photos and/or track diagrams of Courtright Junction, where the CASO and PM crossed? As I understand, there was also an interchange there at some point?
Thanks!
I have a few more photos of this station which I will post asap. I was able to count the boards in the photos on the east side and south end of the building. The south end (small window) had 24 boards and the east side (large window and freight door) was 55 boards, not including the freight door which I estimate to be 72″ wide by 84″ high. I used measurements from the frieght doors on the Oil Springs station at the Oil Museum of Canada for the dimensions of that door. The building could be approximately 22 to 24 ft. wide by 54 to 60 ft. long if the boards were 12 inches wide, than it was probably 24 by 60 which is what I will try first. The reason I believe the boards to be 12 inches wide is that I was able to measure the original Courtright sign which is 6.5 ft. wide by 12 inches high, and in the photo from the south end it covers six and a half boards. The entry door on the Oil Springs station measures 35 inches wide by 91 inches high. I am not sure if that is a standard dimension for a station that size or not, again I counted boards in a photo and that seems to be about the correct size so that is what I am using. I have estimated the base of the large windows to be about 12 ft. wide . In some photos a couple of the boards look narrower than others so you may want to go with a 10 inch board to compensate. My scale is 1/24 for a Garden scale Railway. As I start to assemble this I am sure I will have to make some adjustments such as the length to get the correct proportion. The roof is going to be trial and error, the roof over freight section of the building is lower than the main section of the station. John Riley did tell me that it was fifteen feet to the bottom of soffits. I will post more when I get to that point. I hope you find this useful. Thank You for checking out my web page.
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