Lionel Large Scale Buildings

 

Lionel's foray in the G-Scale realm between late 80s to early 90s, produced a few buildings. In fact 4 buildings were produced and they were near duplicates of kits that were produced for the O scale line. These are really fine looking models and the difference between them and their O scale counterparts is they are wood kits and include a bit more details including some brass on the doors of the engine house and shingles and window glazing, . The watchmen's shanty in O did include a figure and a dog  but all the O scale kits were plastic. I would enjoy assembling one of these kits.

Like their O scale little brothers, these are sadly out of production and have been so for a long time. They occasional show up on Ebay and I suspect you may find them in some old stock at a hobby shop that has not sold off its old Lionel dead stock. Scale Model Supply in St. Paul, MN comes to mind but I am sure there are others disbursed across America.

I actually have 3 of the O-scale versions. The engine house and passenger station are on my layout and the watchman's shanty has yet to be assembled. I have written about the Lionel O scale structure kits before. I think that Lionel may have rented the tooling from Pola or Piko. I am not sure who would have been tasked with making the wooden Large scale kits but could have been one those 2 manufacturers too. 

Prior to Lionel reshuffling their support pages recently, you could find the instructions for these Large Scale buildings in their support documents that included detailed diagrams. If you were a craftsman, you could have created the buildings based on the diagrams with a little effort.

8-82104 Water Tower

8-82105 Engine House (40 1/2" L, 10 1/2" W, 13 1/4" H) 

8-82106 Watchman Shanty

8-82107 Passenger and Freight Station (21 1/2" L, 11 1/2" W, 9 1/2" H)