Looking for Suggestions--Kit Bash Morton Salt Factory or Structures

Foam board works for large walls.  I use 1/2 x 1/2 wood strips in the corners to increase the square inches of glue for a good contact.

Great idea!! Welcome to the world of scratch building.  You will find out that you can make a factory for pennies compared to what RTR costs. Also you make the building for the space allocated as opposed to ripping up and repositioning tracks. If you have access to a table saw and/or a mitre saw, you can make your own structural members for the framework,  a lot cheaper than buying beams and girders. I'm trying to model a steel mill layout in my basement.  All of the buildings are made from hardboard and foamcore glued together with MDF framing I cut myself.

All of them are huge by O gauge layout standards. Foamcore is covered with corrugated cardboard to simulate ribbed iron sheathing.

With the exception of the store bought windows,  I built each factory mill building for less than  $20.

If you really want to go crazy, you can build an 8 foot great lakes ore boat for about  $100.

My layout is far from complete.  I still need at least 3 more mill buildings,  a forge (18 X24 inches), an open hearth furnace  (6+ feet long by 30 inches wide) and the blast furnace (24X60 inches).

@bulldog405 posted:

I missed my opportunity to buy the Menards Salt Factory--so i would like to build my own---any suggestions or ideas from those of you who might have built your own buildings?  Thanks in Advance!

Have you seen this thread (https://ogrforum.com/...tory-let-s-see-yours)?  The paint color is also specified.  I got my Mernards Salt Factory a few weeks ago after I bought my Morton Salt SW-1 Switcher.  I also have a small army of the latest MTH Morton Salt Hoppers including custom run variants with the girl in a red dress.  (The font they used for the Road #'s is dead wrong by the way.)

Anthony

Built with styrene - customer using it as a quarry mill

You could model the collapse of the Morton Salt storage facility:

Bulldog, there’s a Morton’s Salt for sale in the for sale part of this Vlog.

Check it out!

Thank you very much---sent the seller an email!

Were you able to purchase?

I was!  thank you all for the heads up and the information

Glad you got it. Still listed, though.

Joe, fantastic quarry mill.

Tom

Thanks everyone for the tips and letting me know of the Morton Salt Factory offered by another member---it arrived safe and sound and will be giving it a new home!!  Thanks everyone

Great news, Glad you got one. They are really neat.

Tom