The freight depot, like the rest of the Cedar Key terminal, stood on wooden pilings. The floor and loading platform of the freight depot sat higher than the dock, on a level with freight car floors. I used 1/8 inch dowels for the pilings, and 1/16 inch square strip wood for the beams. The pilings under the freight depot are 1 3/16 inch long, while the pilings under the dock will be 1 inch. I assembled sets of pilings for the under-structure of the freight depot using a jig I made.
A rail spur ran along the side of the fright depot, also on pilings, and open on the opposite side. I made sets of 1 inch long pilings to support the track that would be attached to the main under-structure..
I then added the spur supports to the depot under-structure. I made 13 of these assemblies. One assembly was modified to accommodate the lower end of a ramp from the loading platform to the dock.
The floor of the depot and loading platform is 1/16 inch sheet wood, covered with N-scale 8 inch wood planking from Clever Models printed on 20 lb. paper. The notch in one corner is where the ramp will go.
The assembled under-structure is 4 inches wide and just under 9 1/2 inches long. I miscalculated how far out the track needed to be from the edge of the loading platform, so I added a 1/8 inch square wood strip along the outside with supporting 7/8 inch long pilings. This had the benefit of looking more like the prototype.
I will build the freight depot in my next post.