O&S Scale Individual Pieces: Commercial Buildings (19)

Apartment Building

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

apartboxTHUMB

1907

ApartmentHouseBoxTHUMB

1963 (45963)

aptbldgthumb

45980

apartmenthousebuiltupboxTHUMB

45315 built-up

aaparttanwhiteTHUMB

1) Tan sides, white roof, maroon trim

aapartredbuffTHUMB

2) Red sides, buff roof & trim

nopic140x140

3) Brown sides, cream roof & trim

apartmenthouseTHUMB

4) Red sides, light gray roof & trim; silver doors, windows & antennae, brown roof access, yellow furniture (built-up)

Add-A-Floor

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

addafloorTHUMB

1503

addafloorTHUMB1

1) Tan sides, maroon trim

Motel, Motel With Autos, Motel With 3 Autos

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1957
  • Total Pieces: 9
  • Later motels (1971) did not have flowers
  • Motel may or may not have 3 autos

boxTHUMB

1621

a1913MotelBoxATHUMB

1913

MotelBoxTHUMB

45618

amotelwhsalTHUMB

1) White sides, salmon roof & trim

motelTHUMB

2) Salmon sides, white roof & trim

nopic140x3

3) Light pink, gray roof & trim

motelbluesidesthumb

4) Blue sides, white roof

motelwhitewallsthumb

5) White sides, blue roof

motelgraywallsthumb

6) Dark gray sides, dark salmon roof

motelsalmonwallsthumb

7) Dark salmon sides, dark gray roof

motelexplodedthumb

Exploded View

Airport Hangar

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1952
  • Total Pieces: 5
  • Included 2 jet planes in 1954, 4 jet planes in 1997 (variation #3)
  • No box produced with #1702

ap1boxTHUMB

AP-1

nopic140x2

1702

hangarTHUMB

45986

ahangerwjetsTHUMB

1) White sides, blue roof & red door

aorangeairporthangarTHUMB

2) White sides, orange roof & gray door

hangarTHUMB1

3) White sides, gray roof & door

specialhangerTHUMB

4) LCCA Special Edition

Airport Administration Building, Airport Terminal

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1954
  • Total Pieces: 19
  • No box produced with #1903

ad4airportadminTHUMB

AD-4

nopic140x4

1903

a45985AirportTerminalTHUMB

45985

aairportadminwhiteblueTHUMB

1) White sides, blue roof & trim

nopic140x5

2) White sides, gray roof & trim

1997-99 Series

alccaadminTHUMB

3) LCCA Special Edition

Drug Store

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1971
  • Total Pieces: 7
  • White background paper inserts

drugboxTHUMB

1853

a1853drugTHUMB

1) Tan front, white sides, gray roof

Hardware & Pharmacy Kit, Drug & Hardware Store, Drug Store

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1953
  • Total Pieces: 7
  • Color variation 2 is only found in the #1611 box

DH2blackpharmpartsboxTHUMB

DH-2

PharmacyboxTHUMB

1611

ablackpharmwboxTHUMB

1) Black front, tan sides, sliver-gray roof

ahpk1611frontdullgrayTHUMB

2) Black front, tan sides, dull-gray roof & doors

Chain Store, 5&10 Cent Store, 5&10 Cent Variety Store

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1953
  • Total Pieces: 8

cs5boxTHUMB

CS-5

nopic140x6

1612

acstanredTHUMB

1) Tan sides, red roof

Corner Store

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1960
  • Total Pieces: 9
  • Originally a Littletown piece that was re-introduced by Bachmann. Small window eliminated from Plasticville version.
  • Also see the King Distributing Series

storeboxTHUMB

1626

storewhiteTHUMB

1) White sides, gray roof

a1626storegrayTHUMB

2) Gray sides, white roof

Diner, Diner Kit

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1952
  • Total Pieces: 5
  • Chrome/silverized versions in 1954 and 1955 only.
  • Variation 5 is from the 1997-99 series.

de7boxTHUMB

DE-7

DinerBoxTHUMB

1500

DinerBoxTHUMB1

45605

asilverdinerTHUMB

1) Chrome sides, red roof & trim

achromedinerTHUMB

2) Chrome sides, yellow roof & trim

dinergrayredTHUMB

3) Gray sides, red roof & trim

ayellowdinerTHUMB

4) Gray sides, yellow roof & trim

dinerthumb

5) Silver sides, black roof & trim

Bank

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1955
  • Total Pieces: 9
  • Bank usually has red lights
  • Also see the King Distributing Series

bk1bankTHUMB

BK-1

BankBoxTHUMB

1801

boxandBankwithwhitelightsboxTHUMB

1960 (45960)

bankbuiltupboxTHUMB

45311 built-up

abankTHUMB

1) Gray sides, green roof & canopies

abluegraybankTHUMB

2) Blue-gray sides, green roof & canopies

boxandBankwithwhitelightsTHUMB

3) Gray sides, green roof, white lights

bankbuiltupfrontTHUMB

4) Gray sides, green roof & canopies; gold light bases with opaque white lights, windows painted rust color (built-up)

parts

Pieces

Factory

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1957
  • Total Pieces: 15
  • Colors on the canopy, roof & water tank match
  • Smoke stack, supports for water tank & water tank roof contrast with large roof color (gray roof will have a brown smoke stack, etc.)
  • Water tank may have a decal saying Plasticville Mfg. Co.

boxTHUMB1

1906

boxTHUMB2

1988

tangrayfactoryTHUMB

1) Tan sides, gray roof

tanbrownrearTHUMB

2) Tan sides, brown roof

atannologoTHUMB

3) Tan sides, gray roof, no logo

nopic140x7

4) Tan sides, brown roof, no logo

TV Station, TV Transmitting Station

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1957
  • Total Pieces: 11

boxTHUMB8

1618

boxTHUMB9

1964

awhitetvTHUMB

1) White sides, red roof

aredwhitetvTHUMB

2) Red sides, white roof

Frosty Bar

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1954
  • Total Pieces: 12
  • Frosty Bars from 1955 had a silverized/chrome counter. These can be found for each of the first four color combinations.
  • The last two color variations are from the 1997-99 series.

fb1boxtopTHUMB

FB-1

boxtopTHUMB

1401

FrostyBarBoxTHUMB

45606

frostysalmonwhiteTHUMB

1) Salmon sides, white base, roof & front

frostywhitesalmonTHUMB

2) White sides, salmon base, roof & front

frostyyellowTHUMB

3) Yellow sides, white base, roof & front

afrostywhiteyellowTHUMB

4) White sides, yellow base, roof & front

acreamsilversilverfrontTHUMB

5) Cream sides, silver base & roof

asilvercreamcreamfrontTHUMB

6) Silver sides, cream base & roof

Gas Station (small)

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1950
  • Total Pieces: 10
  • Variation #3 is likely from the 1980's issues

go21wboxTHUMB

GO-2

smallgaswhiterednolettersTHUMB

1962 (45962)

asmallgaswhiteredwhiteTHUMB

1) White sides, red roof, white insert

smallgaswhiteredblackTHUMB

2) White sides, red roof, black insert

smallgaswhiterednolettersTHUMB1

3) White sides, red roof, no colored letters

Gas Station (large), Gas Station With Auto

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1955
  • Total Pieces: 18

GO3LargeGasStationBoxTHUMB

GO-3

gaslargeTHUMB

1800

LargeGasStationBoxTHUMB

1909

nopic140x8

5800

alggaswboxTHUMB

1) White sides, red roof, with Plasticville logo

nopic140x10

2) White sides, red roof, no Plasticville logo

alggaswcheltenTHUMB

3) White sides, red roof, Cheltenham stickers

Super Market (small)

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1950
  • Total Pieces: 7
  • There were two different paper windows inserts made — one with dark background and one with light background
  • #SM-6 original box has two different sets of paper window inserts.

asm6boxTHUMB

SM-6

asm6whiteinsertsTHUMB

1) White sides, red roof, white inserts

sm6blackinsertsTHUMB

2) White sides, red roof, black inserts

Super Market (Large)

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1953
  • Total Pieces: 7

sm7boxTHUMB

SM-7

supermarketboxTHUMB

1613

alargesuperTHUMB

1) Green front, tan sides, brown roof, black letters

aredlgmarketwboxTHUMB

2) Green front, tan sides, red roof, red letters

Turnpike, Plasticville Turnpike Interchange

Catalog Numbers & Color Variations:

  • Year Introduced: 1956
  • Total Pieces: 25
  • Variation #2 is from the 1997-99 series

turnpikeTHUMB

1900

turnpikeInterchangeBoxTHUMB

45601

aturnpikeblueTHUMB

1) Blue sides, white roof

turnpikeinterchangethumb

2) Green sides, white roof