what does this structure look like to you?

The first photo looks like a steam powered cement mixer road roller of some type. 

Hey Roger!

How's the holiday layout coming along?

I would venture a guess that the second photo is a way to load debris into a truck or wagon. The left side looks like an excavator cab within boom range of the base of the conveyor. Looks like rubble is already there. The chute controls the flow off of the conveyor into box the with diaphragms to slow the speed of the debris and direct it to the right.

Something was in the way of the railroad.

Hi Carl!
The 5th annual Train display opens this weekend! I still used a version of the layout you designed for us, and changed up the opposite side of the room. I 'll post some photos and video of the layout.
Here are the rest of the photos from the same stack...

This photo was taken across the street from the milk plant. I have to assume it is a track boss or foreman group of some kind.

This photo shows what I assume is the crew responsible for the construction work on the milk plant. About 1917 the Western Reserve Condensed Milk Company was purchased by Rieck-McJunkin of Pittsburgh. They expanded the building and production. They shipped one car of sweetened condensed milk and just under 1000 gallons of cream to Pittsburgh per day.

The middle portion of this photo is the boiler house. Here they are raising the third smoke stack for the boiler upgrades. They are widening the boiler house, and will build a water plant building attached to the right side.

Here is the pre-1917 building. You will notice the two smoke stacks, and the boiler house is on the end. During the 1917 construction in the above photo, they added the water plant building which contained all the plumbing, piping, and pumps to operate the boilers, the milk condensing pans, and the steam piping to clean and sanitize the milk cans when the farmers brought in their shipment. If you look close, you can see the silver milk cans sitting on the loading dock.

The railroad siding next the milk plant. The closest set of loading docks lead into the sugar house. Cane sugar was shipped in by boxcar in 100 lbs sacks. I believe the car on the siding is actually a glass lined milk car getting loaded with sweetened condensed milk

A local farmer leaving with his steam cleaned empty milk cans. He would make this trip daily. Look under the roof at the dock, you will see another wagon off loading the days milk.

I built a scale model of the building for our Train Display in our Town Hall. If a picture is worth 1000 words, image a scale building that people can actually see.

I like this Slanted/ Pitched Loading/Unloading dock!

It's really different and adds character to the structure should you build it!

I will, looks like there are three of them. I'm running out of time, we open Saturday!