This is an outstanding kit by Atlas. One of the things I love about it is how good the roof looks. The shingles were really sculpted with care. I know that sounds strange, but let's face it, we're usually looking down on the layout, so the roof is super-important! The little details included, like the luggage cart and benches are great. As an added bonus, the side platform extension is a totally separate model, meaning you can put it on either end of the main building or even between two tracks in front of it. The ample roof overhang leaves great space for putting LEDs for night lighting.

This is a great kit from Atlas. It represents a very nice, generic passenger station that looks like many other railroad stations that use to be all over America. With some modifications, it can even fit into the modern era very easily. Even though I have not started building this kit, yet, I have inspected the parts and instructions. The parts are all of very excellent molding, with well defined details and no imperfections. As other reviewers noted, the roof is exceptionally detailed, and the structure as a whole would be a focal point of any layout with just a coat of paint and little else.There is also room for super-detailers and kit-bashers to customize the structure as they see fit, and even make it into something it's not (such as a small town store, or the HQ of a small short line railroad). The instructions are pretty good, but can be kind of confusing with how it's laid out. All steps are listed on the back of the single sheet, and some reference illustrations that are somewhat separated from the step (such as Fig. 1- listed on the front of the sheet) However, if a person studies it closely, they should have little problems. Overall, this a highly detailed kit and I recommend it to anyone looking for a railroad station, a MOW depot, or any number of other uses.

I acquired one of these a few months ago and slowly built it. Just before gluing on the dormers, I got an idea and bought a string of tiny led lights powered by three AA batteries. I drilled a 1/8 inch hole in the roof part behind each dormer and ran a light through each one taping the wire down on the inside of the roof. I then pushed the rest of the lights and light control inside of the main building. Each evening at 5, the lights come on inside the station and go off at 11:00. It looks really neat on our Christmas Tree/Railroad track display.