Nickel Plate Road - Telegraph Office

This is a telegraph office taken from standard designs and plans for the Nickel Plate Road. Dozens of these little shanties were placed across the NKP system, and similar designs showed up on other lines all across America.

The building is very simple; a telegrapher's desk was in one corner of a room, and a waiting area in another. The little building was heated with an oil-burning stove. The oil storage was in a little offshoot closet. For this model, that closet has been repurposed to carry