Got in a Nanton elevator by Altoona Model Works. This is not a cheap kit, but l got it for a VERY good price, maybe because instructions are only on the net?? Thanks to posters here, a friend printed me instructions. This is the last kit elevator l am aware of and did not have built. , and l have several scratch built ones, so real estate is at a premium and l need a fleet of boxcars with grain doors. (I do like grain elevators) l also got in another l, l think uncommon kit, a Suncoast coal tipple. It, too, was a good price, and l think there are only two other coal tipple kits, the one out of W. Va., and MAYBE the one south of York, although some of those kits are S scale only? SOME of the coal structures are in O. There is also a small tipple kit modeled on a mine in Illinois. My railroad is imagined as owned by a coal mining co. that went after logging, metal mining, and grain business also, as they were happy to cash anybody's check, and are located along the Front Range with coal mines west of Pueblo, metal mines and trees in the Rockiesd and a prairie of grain east to Kansas. Since l am stalled by a shortage of windows and doors on my caboose project, l don't know when l will get to building these two kits.
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