Looking for Industry Ideas 4 this old wood box

That is starting pretty basic.  I could see using that as the support part of a box (paperboard) manufacturing company, in which the boxcars on a sideing were run into.

You could cover the whole outside with either styrene or milled (clapboard, board and

bat, etc.) siding, or a brick material.  Using it to frame a box company might always

remind you of its past.  I could also use that as the frame for a coal dealer, such as the KP (York, Pa.) kit where a truck (loaded from it) or hoppers could be run under it and unloaded into the bins overhead, with spouts on the sides to fill the trucks.  All

of this could be covered with siding and only you would know of its childhood past.

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PRR,

I will say a prayer for your Dad.

The idea I have would be a refrigerated warehouse. Make something like the Tropicana Orange Juice warehouse in Jersey City, NJ. You can cut in a couple of doors for the rail cars to pull inside. You can add vertical strips to the exterior of the box to look like pre-cast concrete panels. This should keep you busy for a while.

Alan Graziano

How about the base for the unloading / loading for a grain silo complex.  Russ

No help with ideas but I too shall say a prayer for your father. As a survivor of chronic kidney failure myself I can attest to your fathers struggles. God bless you and your family as your father fights towards recovery.

The idea I have would be a refrigerated warehouse. Make something like the Tropicana Orange Juice warehouse in Jersey City, NJ. You can cut in a couple of doors for the rail cars to pull inside. You can add vertical strips to the exterior of the box to look like pre-cast concrete panels. This should keep you busy for a while.

Alan Graziano

Do you mean like this?

How about the base for the unloading / loading for a grain silo complex.  Russ

Interesting as I do have a complete[but damaged] Korber Grain Siloh. The box seems too big for a "six pack" grain siloh.

Mark,

I had something like that in mind, but I thought you could actually bring the train cars inside the building with a big roll-up door on one or bith ends.

Alan Graziano

Best wishes to your dad and to your family.

I don't have a suggestion for what kind of building, but I do have a thought on how to approach it.   If it were me, I would make it a goal to have as much as possible of the box actually visible.  My approach to this would be to make the exterior walls from widely spaced vertical slat siding, kind of like this:

I would make the battens out of strips of basswood (or balsa for a more rustic look) butting two of them together to cover the rough corners.  I would then stain the whole thing with a brown I/A mixture. I think it could be made very handsome and realistic while still exposing a lot of the original box.

Grain Hopper loading shed at the end of a spur.

Cover the structure in crimped aluminum to simulate corrugated steel siding.

The grain hoppers go in and a long tube from the house on a top of three Concete Silos will deliver the grain.

Andrew

My prayers for your dad's recovery go out to you and your family.