Grain Silo Complex project w/Pictures 9/14/12

Awwww that's teasing!    Russ

I love these frame by frame shots. They really help me visualize the project (and come away with some ideas of my own).

Dougm

Thanks for your comments. Hope you get lots of ideas as the project moves along.

Some additional work on the brick facing.

Good Day Bill, 

What is the building going to be? I cannot figure out what.

Regards,

Frank 

Hi Frank, The Building is a platform for mounting some silos. The platform is also used as a loading/unloading building with tracks running inside. I will post another picture that maybe the tracks can be seen.

Bill,

That already looks impressive and I can hardly wait to see it finished.

The tall building among the silos reminded me of a similar building you shared with us some time ago that was made to hide a steel post. Am I correct or just imagining? If correct, is that thread still available, or that picture? Yes, I have a post to deal with!

Thanks -

Alex

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Alex, Try these links. I have posted pictures on both of them of the pole building. If you need more please let me know.

Bill

I take it that this is an addition to the power plant you were showing us earlier this year?  This structure just gets bigger and bigger.

Thanks for sharing.

Johnny,

The location of this project is right next to the Power Plant Complex. But it will be a seprate operation of a Grain Complex.

I like SILOS of all sizes and uses.

We find them all over the world performing many different services. Many small to medium silos can be found in the grain belt of Canada to the large industrial types.

 Below I have posted a sampling of the different configurations that have been used.

Hope ypu emjoy the pictures as much as I have.

Great project and prototype photos! Thanks!

What doors and windows did you use for the grain complex? I really like the roll up door!

Willbacker,

The windows are from Grandt Line. The door is scratch built using Evergreen Styrene Patterned sheets , a styrene 7/16" diameter pipe and two 3/32" styrene angles.

Alan Graziano

Al, Yes some of the silos are from the Buffalo area. Some are from Kellogg's. Ralstons and POST in Battle Creek MI.

CSX AL, These GREAT SILOs are also in the Niagra Falls/Bufflo area

Alan has been working on a make over of a MTH GRAINERY as shown below.

Bill,

(From the April 9 post)

Yes, that is the one I was looking for - the one that Alan Graziano made. I believe I will do something similar . . .

Thx!

Alex

Alex, I have thought many times how clever Alan was with his "POLE BUILDING". iT REALLY SOLVED A BIG PROBLEM FOR US.

I also like the lighted office building that Jim P frpm NY did.

Alex keep us posted on your progress.

Alan has made more progress on the Silo Complex as seen below.

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More progress on the Grain Silo Complex

More progress by Alan on the Grain Silo Complex. You can start to see the complex coming together. There will be another large silo group mounted to the left and higher than the center silo group.

looks amazing!!! what kind of pipe are you using for your structures?

Will, Alan Graziano is building the Grain Silo Complex for us. He posted the following on his Asphalt Plant thread.

"I use ABS plastic tubing.  I buy it from Plastruct. It is much more expensive than PVC pipe that you could buy in a hardware store. The PVC from a hardware store has many scratches in it.  You will see this when you paint, unless you do a lot of sanding.  ABS tubing is very smooth.  ABS sheet in thicknesses of .010-.080 can be purchased from Plasttruct and glued directly to the tubing.  If you use ABS with the PVC piping you will have to glue it with CA type glue.  Hope this helps."   Alan

thank you!

Will you are welcome.

Alan has made more progress on the Silo Complex as shown bwlow.

WOW!  This structure becomes more impressive everytime I see it.

Thanks Popssr for sharing.

Johnny, Thank you. Alan has made some very nice progress on this structure for us. Thanks again.

More progress on the Grain Silos

looks GREAT! who made those grain bins in the last photo?

Will Alan Graziano has made all the Silos

Nice..this reinforces the fact that I have a lot of company in liking and modeling grain

elevators.  I photo and model the old wooden ones, often metal clad, or even of brick or tile, and frequently found in ruins on abandoned roadbeds in this area, and all the way to the Rockies.  I have wondered if they weren't too large for a layout, but they are greatly overshadowed by the more recent concrete ones such as this.  There are a lot of pictures of them on the net, so there are a lot of us, there are calendars of them made, photos for sale on the net, and books on the subject including one on Indiana elevators that I have used to track down and take my own photos and consider for a model. 

It describes an elevator I have spent time in the Terre Haute area trying to find a photo of, that had a spiral, narrow and  rickety truck ramp that circled to the top where grain was dumped into the bin.    I am betting there are other books out there, maybe regional specific.  I have a half-built model of an unusual elevator burned in the '50's that has waited two years for a photo of the front of the structure to finish.

I have frequently seen photos of a concrete one described as the largest in the world,

I think located north of Wichita, Kansas, but somewhere in south central Ks., that I

am pretty sure an O scale model would take all my train space and then some, and

the one above is no slouch.  (I am thinking, that, as discussed on another thread,

yard engines servicing that Ks. one could have used cabooses, to go from one end of the building to the other)

More progress on another set of Silos dhown below

Just awesome Pops!

Cesar