Sunday Scenic Showcase January 21, 2024

Alan, what is that structure in your photo? Is it an intricate coal loader?

Oh, I see, does it load stuff, maybe trailers. on boats? Maybe intermodal containers?

Scribing sidewalk lines on the "concrete" station platforms.....

It should hit the 50s midweek......warm enough to do some outdoor or “in garage" painting.

Have a great week.....

Peter

Here are a few pictures of a lumber yard structure that I am just completing.

This is a modified Cornerstone Walton & Sons Lumber Company kit. The biggest modification was the depth of the lumber shed, which I felt was too deep based on prototype photos. So I cut the building in half as illustrated by this side wall:

Of course, this also requires the roof and interior bracing to be cut in half, but it all cuts nicely in half so that no other modifications are required to assemble it.

I covered the upper walkway with strip wood and I also built wood floors for the upper level (the kit has no floor – just open spaces with a cross brace). Here is an upper floor under construction:

Without “products” to sell, this model is very naked. The kit does not come with any details. So I build piles of various building materials using scale lumber as shown in these pictures.

I added lighting and interior details to the office as shown in these "night time" photos looking through the front window:

When I find a place for this on my layout, I will add many more scenery details.

Thanks for looking.

Arnold, I believe that is called a Hulett loader.

Great work everyone, anyways a pleasure to see what everyone is building.

Arnold,

Jeff named it. A Hulett loader. I constructed the ship also. This picture was taken on my customers layout. They were used to load ships and barges with aggregate. New York City had two of them at one time to load garbage onto barges.

Matt,

Beautiful work on the lumber yard.

Peter,

I am hoping it will warm up also. I have a steel mill to paint and I hate seeing it sitting here unpainted.

@Matthew Jones- the Rabourn’s could have used your design for their lumber shed. For my legs were not long enough to stretch across the to upper cross members an braces ….was probably 13 when I worked there one summer. We unloaded the train car by hand.

I believe we all can get our fill of painting really soon.
I can see and understand how the Hulett works .  I’m curious how the aggregate is then removed from the hold as the ships reach their ports. I would think the Hulett was one of your difficult constructions Alan.

Really enjoyed the display today guys.

Actually it is a Hulett UNloader. As the Great Lakes ore boats arrived at the docks from Minnesota and Upper Michigan, the Hulett bucket was used to dive into the holds and extract the iron ore. Ore was then either dropped into waiting hoppers or stock piled for future use. Most docks along the lower Great Lakes had several working in conjunction to quickly unload the Lakers. Whiskey Island in Cleveland was the most famous for having 4 Huletts,  sadly they're dismantled,  after a long fight to keep them intact and designate them as a historical site.

@third rail posted:

Actually it is a Hulett UNloader. As the Great Lakes ore boats arrived at the docks from Minnesota and Upper Michigan, the Hulett bucket was used to dive into the holds and extract the iron ore. Ore was then either dropped into waiting hoppers or stock piled for future use. Most docks along the lower Great Lakes had several working in conjunction to quickly unload the Lakers. Whiskey Island in Cleveland was the most famous for having 4 Huletts,  sadly they're dismantled,  after a long fight to keep them intact and designate them as a historical site.

Fascinating Bill, and that looks like a beautiful model, Alan.

Working on another scene on the Richmond, Danville & Southern. This will be a canning factory. The building on the right is left over pieces of some Korbor models I had. The factory is a modified Model Tech Studios kit with scratch build docks and tanks.

One of my Card Stock Flats. I did add LED lighting.   This is from Clever models.  I have kitbashed most of what I have bought from them.

@ third rail thank you much for your input and explanation today

and Alan had actuality helped preserve the Hulett  Legscy and its operations

Nice work fellas!!     Here's a CPR portable station i've been working on and detailing the 'inards '.   The basic kit is by Monashee Laser Engineering, a company that does multi scale laser cut wood railroad buildings .   Rick makes a CNR station and a CPR number '5'station and sheds like this one.   I'll add a scale 16 ft by 32 ft wood platform out front as suggested by Rick, ( but not included in the kit.)    His CPR #5 station does come with a platform and basic ''upstairs '' details like beds, dressers and stairs !   A set of very complete instructions with photos are included with each kit and the photos are great reference to the printed instructions for aid in assembly.    I recommend checking out his site as he also does some 3D printed details like a potbelly stove and a thick bag of peel and stick cedar type shingles .