Grain elevator progress (pics)

So size does matter!    Very nice!  Russ

That really looks nice. I like it.

Wow! Look nice!!!

Hi Chugman,

That looks great!!!!!

Alex

My favorite historical quote fits this nicely: "Quantity has its own unique quality," - Joseph Stalin.  

Your grain elevator fits that very well.  It looks really good and it does remind me of some of those massive ones I've seen in the midwest.  Excellent!

NICE JOB !

WOW!

Looks great! Its good to see you posting on the forums again. Im anxious to see your layout someday.

That has a great look!

Like it it reminds me of the one at Hershey PA. 

More, more, more!

Wow!  That looks like the world's largest that they have a post card of, in south

central Kansas.  Don't think you will find any larger models of them.

Nice work!

What did you use to cap the top of the silos?

Looks real nice.

Having a pesky six-year old inside me who often channels his bizarre ideas, I've thought of modeling an exploding grain silo. Unfortunately, I don't have any place to put a set of silos and elevator and all, but it would be cool and a nice emergency scene to model/play with.

 When I was a kid (1960s?) I saw one in western Kansas/eastern Colorado about a week after it had happened.  My grandfather was a local judge who had to go inspect and certify the damage or something and I went with him.  The grain dust inside a half-empty one had exploded - the silo looked like a ruptured firecracker - concrete rumble everywhere.  No one had been killed, but Wow!  Years later i saw a video of cirvil engineers trying to blow up an old grain elevator.  It defied their efforts with dynamite: Grain dust can be a powerful explosive - it tore the one I saw to pieces. .  

Chugman,

That is one serious grain elevator. 

Bill would have a field day with that one. He would want about a thousand lights on it.

Alan Graziano

WOW, is an understatement,

Looks like someone made a couple

trips to the plumbing supply house.

Now that's what I call a grain elevator complex. This is wonderful work, Art. Having been to your layout, this is a perfect use of the space. It makes an impressive difference.