Show us your industries

I bashed a beet sugar plant to look like one of  the Great Western ones in NE Colorado, and not so unusual, have built a LOT of grain elevators.  Also not unusual, have built 2-3 metal mining stamp mills.l

Major League Baseball in the 1950s:

Yankee Stadium:

Polo Grounds:

Arnold

DPM modules and kits.  Storage tanks are pint bottles extended with card stock cylinders.  Piping between buildings are trimmed sprues.  John

My little area ......

I'm all about the industrial modeling.  Here is one unique industry in progress - Boston rail served fishing industry at Fish Pier.

Lots of great industrial scenes!

Rattler, I'm not sure I've (personally) seen a milk industry done yet, very nicely done!

i currently have 4 industries on my layout:

pacemaker warehouse and shipping 80% done

sugar beet refinery 95% done

old time intermodal with seatrain 75% done

cement plant 50% done

more to be built!

my wife always wants to know why i can’t finish at least one. hmmm i never have a good answer  lol.

Here’s a little area of the yard from I-R  in Phillipsburg , NJ. That’s where these real box cabs were.

Scene on my portable modules.

Pete

A better picture of the box cabs. I-R provided the diesel engines.

The Reading providing service to the BS plant and the Sunoco refinery. Note the new MTH Bethlehem Steel hoppers just received from the TCA.

Cement block plant.

Small town COOP

Fuel Terminal (right / front) Gas well with tank battery (left )

Warehouse.

Local cement plant. There used to be a lot of these in the Lehigh Valley. Not any more. We didn’t have to lime our lawns years ago. It was nice to have a garage for your car though.

@wbg pete you not only have so many nice industrial scenes but lots of beautiful detail surrounding them as well! Out of curiosity, what is the industry with the coal unload station and red hopper?

@stubbygda posted:

i currently have 4 industries on my layout:

pacemaker warehouse and shipping 80% done

sugar beet refinery 95% done

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more to be built!

my wife always wants to know why i can’t finish at least one. hmmm i never have a good answer  lol.

What is incomplete about the pacemaker warehouse and the sugar beet refinery? They look great! What future industries do you have in mind?

You all have tons of great scenes and unique industry ideas! "Old-time" intermodal, sugar beet refinery, cement block plant, there are plenty here I would never have thought of! Please keep them coming!

Now for some bonus questions: did you have a source of inspiration for the industries you built? Did you research historic designs and photos or freelance the construction?

@stubbygda posted:

i currently have 4 industries on my layout:

pacemaker warehouse and shipping 80% done

sugar beet refinery 95% done

old time intermodal with seatrain 75% done

cement plant 50% done

more to be built!

my wife always wants to know why i can’t finish at least one. hmmm i never have a good answer  lol.

OUTSTANDING!

Dave

Nut, bolt and screw factory. Raw material is shipped in. Finished product goes out. Main structure is clapboard wood. A Korber building was added later.

thanks guys.

o-gauge cj, i still have some finish work on the ground cover/ landscaping. i have some fiber optic’s in my trucks i haven’t hooked yet to light source. mostly little stuff but the devil is in the details.

i still have about a 1/3 of the layout i haven’t started. one future industry i found interesting is a fish meal plant. so we will see if i can make that work somewhere lol. others idk yet.

almost all my buildings are scratch built and i spend stupid amounts of time detailing the inside before covering it up with a building. i spend lots of time researching stuff on internet.   i find something that looks fun to build and go from there. i usually model the buildings as an aggregate of things i find. sometimes i design and build the inside and then design a building around it. this is what i am doing on the ball mill building on my cement plant layout.

for example here is a picture thru window in the sugar beet refinery

here is a picture of the inside of the sugar beet refinery before i covered it up with a building  

thanks for your interest  

Dave C,

Nice industry and photos. Would love to see more of the layout.

Dave

@stubbygda posted:

i currently have 4 industries on my layout:!

my wife always wants to know why i can’t finish at least one. hmmm i never have a good answer  lol.

Just  amazing industry models stubbygda!  And, I never "finish" anything either.  I always work on one model then move to another when I lose momentum or want to think more about how I want to finish the next step.

@stubbygda posted:

i currently have 4 industries on my layout:

pacemaker warehouse and shipping 80% done

Can you tell us more about this structure? Was it built with dpm parts?

And that small "gard shack"/tower? in the front. How did you make that? Have any more pics of these structures?

@wbg pete posted:

Ok Pete, can uou elaborate more on this Blue Diamond Mfg. Co? It appears to be korber flats cut into some sort of concrete framework. How did you achieve this?

Although no layout yet, here are some of my industries:

I saw a similar building on Norm C's layout, I fell in love with it and added the working turbine vents and window vent above the dock.

All photos by me.

@0-Gauge CJ posted:

Now for some bonus questions: did you have a source of inspiration for the industries you built? Did you research historic designs and photos or freelance the construction?

Great question!  I either model industries that I have worked in (as a manufacturing engineer) or prominent industries in areas I am modeling (like Boston).

Taking it a step further, as I build my world I am designing it with specific products and input/output.  As in, I will have an automotive plant and an associated dealer in the city as well as a brewery that serves beer to all the drinking establishments.  This is my 20+ year plan...

I like to think of the railroad as a fully contained system of industries and customers and the transit systems that serve them.  I may have visited too many museums as a kid

@prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Although no layout yet, here are some of my industries:

I am enjoying building industries so much I'm not sure if I'll ever get back to building a layout...

With the price of gas what it is, it's a great time to be in the oil business!

Structure by Berkshire Valley and pumpjack by Lionel.

A pumpjack is also called a beam pump, walking beam pump, horsehead pump, nodding donkey pump (donkey pumper), rocking horse pump, grasshopper pump, sucker rod pump, dinosaur pump, Big Texan pump, thirsty bird pump, or just pumping unit.

HOW ABOUT A PAPER RECYCLING PLANT THAT TAKES OLD PAPER TO A RECYCLING PLANT AND TURNS IT INTO TOILET PAPER.  THE ENTIRE PLANT IS CONSTRUCED FROM POLYSTYRENE. THE CONVEYER BELT IS RUN WITH 2 MICROWAVE MOTORS.

A BOX CAR OF USED PAPER IS DROPED AT THE RECYCLEING CENTER AND IS MOVED TO PLANT #2 THEN SENT TO THE TOILET PAPER DISTRIBUTION CENTER AND DELIVERED TO ALL THOSE EMPTY STORE SHELVES.

My layout features a mythical one industry town, Sueher City, and its Sueher Pipe Organ Builders, NLC factory. While I had once worked in the pipe organ business, it was my wife who suggested I have a factory that builds pipe organs featuring pipes made of terra cotta. The city and business names conveniently derive from their founder, Adolph Bernhard Sueher.

I find it ironic that just as I was about to post photos of my pipe organ factory, Richard posts pics of his pipe organ factory!  I'm guessing that this is an industry that is not well represented in our hobby, and here we are with two examples back-to-back in this thread.  By the way, nice work Richard

Tom

@0-Gauge CJ posted:

Lots of great industrial scenes!

Rattler, I'm not sure I've (personally) seen a milk industry done yet, very nicely done!

Thank you.  The vertical standpipes between the building and track are my interpretation of pipe for incoming milk delivered by rail.  John

I discovered an interesting kit from a company I had never heard from before, ITLA, from Canada.  I thought their factory looked interesting, so I bought it.  Here are some photos of the result on my New York and New England Railroad layout.  It is a well designed kit made of laser etched masonite board with lots of details.   The design is such that it can be built in a number of different configurations.  The directions are easy to follow.  The name "Lion Brand Yarns" was taken from the yarn my wife uses for her crochet projects.

Jack Smith

JSmith, nice looking build. Big fan of New England based fall sceniced layouts. I have checked out ITLA models in the past. Nice kits and some great detail items. Wish they offered more in O.

Thanks Dave.  I agree, they have mostly HO and N scale.  I think this is the only O scale kit they make.  It was a pleasure to build.

Jack

Very nicely done.  I particularly like the covered stairway going to the basement and the sheet steel roof on it.

Thank you.  The covered stairway was originally supposed to go on the roof, but I thought there was enough detail already on the roof.  I thought the basement entrance would be a good alternate use.

Jack,

I really like what you have done with your ITLA building. I configured it as a flat but have not yet detailed it. Your photos have given me some ideas. Unfortunately, you are correct that they do not offer any other O Scale structures. However, they do offer some wall sections that you can use for an addition or to scratch build.

Dave

@Norton posted:

Scene on my portable modules.

Pete

Pete,

Is Ampzilla  a reference to the high end stereo gear of the same name?

@Guitarmike posted:

Pete,

Is Ampzilla  a reference to the high end stereo gear of the same name?

Mike, Its what I named the transformer I built for the club. The train transformers are limited by UL to ten amps per output which don't always handle the number of trains we sometimes run on the layout. This 500 watt commercial transformer is capable of a full 25 amps. In practice fast fuses are placed in line to limit the current to whatever is required, typically 15 amps.

The photo was actually taken in the black hall at York where our modular layout was setup.

http://fctt-hirailers.com

Pete