Show us your Korber kits W/Layout Pic's

Some very interesting and detailed kitbashing!  I hope you don't have to order all that

through the mail.  I showed my brewery complex and sugar beet factory on here some

time ago, both built from kitbashed early Korber kits, and have an kitbashed "new Korber" office building for my creosote plant, that needs scenicing and piping.  Wonder

if any LHS (or website) carries the full Plastruct line? Hobbylinc does not.

Bill, you continue to amaze with the new additions for your layout. Love the power plant.

Here are some pics from the old layout circa 1999-2000. I can see 4 different Korber buildings in these pics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter

Pobsrr,

 

Just send that power station on down here to Tennessee. I will stick "TVA"on it

 

Here are my Kobrer buildings.

 

 

 

Let me know when that Power station is on the way. Be sure and pack it well.

 

Take care and have a good weekend.

 

Richard Gonzales

I lit my roundhouse, put a smoke unit in and finished the inside walls.  Don

 

 

 

 

 

Don,

What kind of smoke unit did you use to get this effect ??

Korber 304 house, added 4th stall, custom roof, with gutters.  Click on the underlined phrase to link the Korber website.















Korber #927 signal tower.

Korber 308 Quincy Mining Company, Machine Shop, front lower left.

coloradohirailer

Thank you for your comments, Hope you will add some of your items to this tgread.

 

PTC

Thank you for your nice words. Hope you will post a lot of your new upgrafes in a single thread soon.

 

Peter

Very nice Kohber models. I am sure thouse pictures bring back a lot of great memories. Thanks for sharing with us.

A few on the layout:

 

Richard

I thought maybe you would put MLG&W logo on the power plant and install it down on Presidents Island next to the old Thomas Allen plant  

Alan Graziano did a very nice job on the Kohber kits and the additional supporting items he included in the build.

 

 

 

 

Pobsrr,

 

Just send that power station on down here to Tennessee. I will stick "TVA"on it

 

Here are my Kobrer buildings.

 

 

Popsrr Bill,

 

 You said there are generators added inside the Power Plan. Any pictures of these? I am going to use the plastic packaging from energy efficient light bulbs because they look like generators recessed into the floor. I was also thinking of using a HO overhead crane. I have not figured out a good set of boilers or coal feed conveyor system yet. Any photos of your interior would be very useful and appreciated. Thanks, Paul Goodness

Roger, I used a old MTH smoke unit I got on E-bay. I ran a brass pipe up through the roof and spit it to let the smoke cover the entire inside of the engine house. It works very well. Don

Bill, I still think the Korber roundhouse is one of the neatest looking buildings to have on a layout.  Here is mine.  Don, I've got a smoke unit for my roundhouse also that I'm going to try and fabricate it so that smoke comes out of all the chimneys (one of these days!).

 

Everyone have a nice weekend.  Hot in Nebraska today.

 

Ken

Don

Very nice!! The finished inside  and smoke unit effect look VERY NICE. Thanks for sharing with us.

 

Mike CT

Another GREAT ROUNDHOUSE. Thank you for sharing.

 

WBG PETE

WOW ANOTHER GREAT ROUNDHOUSE!! Your other buildings also look bery nice. Thanks for sharing.

 

KEN

WOW Another GREAT ROUNDHOUSE!!! These Roundhouses look WONDERFUL GUY'S!!! Ken thanks for sharing.

WBG Pete:

 

Your layout is fabulous. You need to show us more.

Paul I don't have a cut away shot of the inside but I do have some showing some of the inside. When you look at the pictures from the outside of the building through the windows notice how the yellow color will show up through the windows.

 

I hope Alex Graziano who built the power plant for me will chime in and help you with youe questions.

 

Looks like he lined the inside 3 walls to help the viewing from the front of the window.

 

I have tried to show the conveyor system from the coal mine to the power plant.

 

 

 

Here's my lionel train factory I built around 1996 it is not on my layout right now but will in the near future .

 

Guy

Hey Bill....I see that your last photo above is a picture of my Korber power station!!

 

Alan

Popsrr,

 

Well, you remember a lot about Memphis. Memphis Light Gas and Water(better knon as Memphis Light Gas and Robbery these days)  had the Allen Steam plant built and turned it over to TVA. I was out there a while back bidding on some work at the new Electrolux plant down the road form the Allen Steam Plant. The Pland has started burning a lot more natural gas. The small yard that always held empty and loaded coal hoppers did not have a single hopper car in it.

 

Take care,

 

RG

Alan

Sorrow about that but my poor eye sight sometime does not help me at all. I have trouble sometime telling the content of pictures when they are small in the photo album.

Richard, I did know that the Thomas H. Allen plant had gone to TVA at one point. I am not surprised that they are moving away from coal. I am sure a lot of Generating plants will be multi fuel fired as we go forwaed with the restrictions on coal and the fracking impact on natural gas and oil.

I will have to go down by the river again someday and stand on the INDIAN MOUNDS South of the old bridges and see if I can see out towards Presidents Island. I use to water ski in that area L O N G  A G O.

Paul,

I constructed  boilers inside the power plant. It was not large enough to construct a generator room. The boilers are either coal or oil fired. They would provide the power to run the generator to create electric.

 

Alan Graziano

Alan thanks for commenting on your Power Plant build.Paul must be thinking about doing some internal work on his power plant. I only had the external pictures looking down inside for him the see. Thanks again Alan.

Rich

I know we have a lot of the roundhouses pictured here in the thread but do you plan any up gardes to those kits? Thanks, Bill

Bill and Alan,

 

Thank you for your replies. They are very helpful! Yes, I am going to detail the interior of my Korber power plant. I figured that the main building will have three coal fired boilers fed by an inside conveyor system and the generators would be located in the smaller attached annex. I have already made a distribution yard with transformers that will have wires to some HO high tension towers. I also have the office building which I have already added interior floors but no detail yet. I have been taking YEARS to get this project done as I move at a snails pace.

 

Thank you for posting the wonderful pictures of your power plant. Paul Goodness

Paul good luck and keep us posted as to your progress.

Wow Guys,

 

Just some outstanding work here!  Super job on some of those kits.

 

Bill,

 

We have relaunched the 304 roundhouse, and made several upgrades.  First we wrote, with the help of several forum members, the instructions with color photos to assist int he build.  We also added laser cut windows that are much nicer and also laser cut wood doors as an upgrade over the earlier kits.

 

In addition we now cast the walls in a brick color.  This removes the layer of paint that was being used, and more detail shows through from the molded walls.

 

The new instructions for the kits are available for free down load from our site.

Korber 304 assembly instructions. (Revised)  Click on the underlined phrase.

  Mike