What's your favorite industrial setting you feature

  I like progressive stages of production; i.e. processing and delivery to consumers. Natural gas or maybe coal mining fit there for me. Logging trail too. But I associate those things with an east coast perception. A South west view might include more chemical production or just plain more oil.(?).

  Anything involved with a nice sized crane, yeilds area, or two, to settle your brain; yard, construction, ditch, destruction; high, or low, heavy or light, any shape would surely be right with a crane

My layout is only 10 1/2' x 12'.  I have several distinct areas including residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial.  Each area is depicted with a few buildings, vehicles and people/animals.  Scenery divides the areas so things don't look crammed into the available space.

My industrial area uses three buildings, scenery and a backdrop to depict manufacturing and warehousing on the outskirts of a large city.  A small rail yard is part of this area.

The industrial branch coming off the main line.  There are three sidings on this branch to service the industrial area and a couple of agri-businesses.

Warehouse and manufacturing buildings.  Vehicles and people make the scene come to life.

The backdrop makes the scene appear much larger than it actually is.

The RR tracks wrap around the industrial area, disappearing behind some buildings.

What would an industrial area be without an illegal dump?

An overall view of my industrial area.  The manufacturing/warehouse area is to the left with the rail yard on the right.  Again, the backdrop makes the scene appear much larger than it actually is.

Tom

Of couse it is the brewery

My favorite industrial area on my very small layout (48" by 76") is a custom made tank farm made by Joseph Fauty.

Steel!!!!  (What else?   

Here are two mills from Panhandle 1.0, now extinct.

The Blooming Mill (left) will be extended and moved to Panhandle 2.0 (under construction).  The Open Hearth (right) is being re-built to be more prototypical.  The highway overpass (Crawford's Crossing) will be completed as well.

Here's the backdrop for the Weirton Steel area on Panhandle 2.0.

George

I have 2 of them  the steel mill under construction and my power plant 

fl9turbo2 posted:

I have 2 of them  the steel mill under construction and my power plant 

That's nice work!  

George

Being from the home of grain and milling, I've dedicated nearly 40' to it. It's a work in progress, but you'll get the idea.

This is modeled after a real place in south Minneapolis.

All the structures will be scratch built. This is the start of one of the mill walls, done with Masonite. The photo in the lower right corner was captured from Google Earth.

I have too many water mills, almost as many grain elevators, and fewer mining stamp mills (l know what l like).  The two industries that hog the most space are the sugar beet plant, and the creosote plant.  Unlikely there will be room for a visualized truck and railcar plant, that specializes in caboose and doodlebug repair/restoration.

I kept my industrial, factory-type modeling to one area, which is a mixture of several vaguely-purposed structures and businesses... and their attendant work areas, emphasizing a worn and grimy look, but to also let visitors to the trainroom use their imaginations to decide what they were looking at. The colors were kept within a certain range to provide some unity, so that all the businesses would appear to belong in the same kind of "industrial park" acreage I have seen in some communities.

The entire neighborhood is adjacent to a railroad service yard, to make the whole area seem that it belonged together, not too far from the workers' homes.... (just like throughout the entire metropolitan area of my hometown near Pittsburgh during the 40's & 50's) and, hopefully, appear more believable as realistic.

FrankM

I have mostly kept mine to two.......

Both those vignettes look very nice, Gandydancer. I especially like how well you integrated the old Lionel coal-tipple into the coal company scene. Clever. It looks like it belongs right there, with purpose and function.

FrankM

I like scratchbuilding and Steel Mills, almost everything in the picture is scratchbuilt you just treat every part as a small model and then put it together to make a large model.

Roo.

WoW, Roo, WoW, and WOW. Did I say wow? Yup. Wowowoweee! That's talent, man!

FrankM

Roo posted:

I like scratchbuilding and Steel Mills, almost everything in the picture is scratchbuilt you just treat every part as a small model and then put it together to make a large model.

Roo.

 

FANTASTIC , great thing is you have something unique rather than out of the box building everyone has and the satisfaction of doing it yourself which is  the best part of model railroading

Scratchbuilder1-48 posted:

Roo posted:

I like scratchbuilding and Steel Mills, almost everything in the picture is scratchbuilt you just treat every part as a small model and then put it together to make a large model.

Roo.

 

FANTASTIC , great thing is you have something unique rather than out of the box building everyone has and the satisfaction of doing it yourself which is  the best part of model railroading

Absolutely!  There is nothing quite the like the feeling of creating a unique (and sometimes prototypical) building or structure.

George

JackieJr, Spectacular AND cool!

FrankM

Here are my waterfront meat packing facility 

jackiejr posted:

Creative and clever use of the #97 coal loader.

Keystone posted:

jackiejr posted:

Creative and clever use of the #97 coal loader.

Oh, wow, I totally missed that! You have a sharp eye for details, Keystone! And you are right, of course, JackieJr was clever and talented in what he crafted there.

FrankM

Coaling Tower and environs....

First thank you for the kind remarks.

Where I live (West Australia) there is no O scale items for sale. so sometimes you have to work out a compromise and use HO scale kits here are two examples that have been "updated" to O scale. The crane is not finished and needs painting when the weather gets warmer.

Those are K-Line Coil cars in the lower photo a great model, to bad K-Line went out of business. Roo.

For me....it's Max Foods....

Here's Max helping me design it.....

Peter

Handsome, Peter, the building and the dog !

FrankM

Turned my house into an oil production industrial facility:

LOL, Arnold

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Turned my house into an oil production industrial facility:

LOL, Arnold

Nice, Arnold!  You did file all the environmental paperwork for that, right?     

George

My largest complex is an oil refinery.  It is a combination of cracking towers by Joe Fauty, old Kibri HO tanks, Lionel storage tanks, Lionel oil towers and a scratch built loading platform.  Since I really like the appearance of refineries at night, I added lots of lights.

Wow! There is some very impressive handi work on display here. I’d gladly take any of the areas pictured for my layout. 

Beautiful setups everyone, thanks for the pics.

SIRT posted:

I do like the grass growing between the rails on the spur lines. Nice touch!

Roo, I've got to get over to the 2 Rail Scale forum to check up on the your progress on the steel mill. It's one of my favorites.

I'm still in the process of building a few of the industries on my layout, but for me my favourite has to be the as yet un-named lumber merchant:

Putnam Division posted:

For me....it's Max Foods....

Here's Max helping me design it.....

Peter

Like your structures, love Max.

     Scale 54", 480 pound raw cotton bales and finished denim rolls.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Below:   Fuzzy photos of the White Oak Denim Mill in a corner of my 9x16 attic operation. Unfortunately far from complete due to being tackled for a loss by health issues. Finding scale cotton bales was interesting--a lady made them (accurately) as a handout at a National Cotton Council meeting in Memphis and I lucked out. Model Structures boss was a major help with buildings. 

Hi Dewey, You have some interesting configurations and handsome structures, here, so I hope you will keep us posted as you make your progress with this area.

FrankM

Really like all these industrial scenes.   Just found this thread.  Maybe because on the 20th my Surgeon was doing a little "Harakiri" on me.

Ron

I found all these very inspiring.  My next layout will have to include a scrapyard,  I'm going to use steel wool for piles of machine shop turnings (MST), strips of alum foil for the plated steel pieces left over from appliance manufacturing, (Tin pile) of course misc gears, etc., and junked cars, an aluminum pile for old light poles - that were traffic casualties,  and the list goes on & on !