Building structures for the Deer Creek & Susquehanna Railroad may very well be my favorite part of this hobby. This probably goes back to my early college years when I was an architecture major. There is just something about taking a box full of parts; doors, windows, siding, trim, detail parts, etc., and turning them into an interesting model that serves an important purpose to the railroad and surrounding scene. Structures give the trains somewhere to go, somewhere to stop and deliver cargo or people, a purpose. Some of the structures on my current model railroad where salvaged from my previous railroad and reused or repurposed as whole structures or cut up and used as background buildings or for kit bashing projects. The structures that I have built have been made of a variety of materials, such as wood, plastic, styrene and plaster, with wood being my favorite medium. There are a variety of manufacturers represented in my models, including Branchline Trains, Woodland Scenics, Bar Mills, American Model Builders, The N Scale Architect, Micro Trains, Blair Line, Monroe Models, Micro-Scale Models, (I am sure that I am missing a few) and a couple of scratch built structures. As manufacturers get better at designing and producing interesting kits, the possibilities seem endless.
