Cement plant--Try Walthers

Walthers has several cement plant kits. Click on the links below:

Valley Cement Plant (can be animated with revolving roaster): http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3098

Medusa cement silos: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3019

John

Ubiquitous

Medusa Cement. The default go-to cement plant. Used in one form or another on countless layouts.

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3019

forgot to mentionj that my

forgot to mentionj that my layout is n scale

N Medusa

http://www.wholesaletrains.com/Detail.asp?ID=200868048

http://wig-wag-trains-cart.com/Walthers/walthers-buildings

Also try setting a saved search on eBay.

Kits

The cement plants are good because cement plants tend to be built to a common plan. But also look at other types of silos and industrial buildings, because kits not labeled 'cement plant' can be assembled and combined into what you want. If you build every kit straight out of the box, your layout looks like Waltherville and Katotown, and doesn't have that individual stamp.

The HO  Medusa Cement Plant

Walthers made both N scale and HO scale models of Medusa Cement.  The HO  Medusa Cement Plant model could easily be modified into fairly accurate  N scale model of this cement distribution plant located in West Sacramento, CA.

What Kind of Plant?

Do you want a plant that produces cement from raw materials, or one that handles local distribution?

If the former, try my old blog post on a plant I kitbashed out of various components https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/ideal-cement-industry-on-the-8th-sub-12187513.

Out of the box, the Walthers Medusa kit is a local distribution facility, receiving hopper loads of already produced cement from elsewhere and storing them for future use in finished concrete.

i want ones that produce

i want ones that produce cement from raw materials..i will check out for blog

also i found this

http://www.cemex.co.uk/cement-production-process.aspx

very instructional

ones that produce

    N scale will be an advantage for modeling a cement plant as they are very large industries. Do you have a location in mind for your layout? I imagine plants look different in different parts of the country. I'd look on google earth or bing maps and view the aerial photos of plants in areas like you want to model. There is a closed plant at davenport ca. , a few miles along the coast north of Santa Cruz  and another plant along the UP  just east of Tehachapi ca. for starters. As for modeling a plant the part that interfaces with the railroad would be cement loading silos for product and maybe coal unloading facilities if the plant gets fuel coal by rail. Once the rail facilities are modeled the rest of the plant could be fit in as partial structures or backdrop photos or paintings depending on the space you have to work with. The older the era you want to model the smaller and less complicated the buildings and machinery would be, although old plants would likely have a larger smokestack to get the emissions up higher into the wind. Newer plants will have a tall scrubber structure like you can see in the davenport plant aerial photos....DaveBranum

I'm not on the USA, I see

I'm not on the USA, I see that as an advantage because i can select just the parts i want from several real plants and model that... I will also check some on google.

as the plant will be a mayor industry on the layout it will have considerable space compared to others industries...

the plant should be located at the right side, just a little above the turntable on the plan...the turntable and terminal is on high level, the plant on lower ground. grid have 12" squares...Nothing is build yet so i can accept more suggestions...

Nothing is build yet so i can accept more suggestions

 Since cement plants are usually out in the country near a source of raw product I might move the plant up to the higher area and move the loco facilities down to the low area. A run around track and a spur or two would be needed at the end of line  at the plant . Trains could bring the cement down to the town on the left side then you could work in some kind of interchange track or mainline to staging to get cars on and off the layout.Maybe the track under the bridge at the top right could  circle around and drop down to staging under the relocated cement plant or some similar way to get some staging. Is that a ship at dock on the left? If so it might be better to make the cement plant a cement distribution facility instead and make the right side part of a harbor switching terminal then you could stage it with a connection to a mainline railroad or with a car float operation. ..dave

10 years ago or so a cement

Mack Concrete

Akron OH

Bing Map

A Possible Plant for You

Model Railroader published an article on scratchbuilding a cement plant in the May 1998 issue on pages 68-75.  The article was titled "Consolidated Concrete" and included modeling ideas and drawings.  The information in the article could be used by any scale modeler.  I am building a modified version for my N scale road now only it has it's own peninsula.

Another idea is the large cement plant just west of Mojave, CA in Monolith.  If you use Google Earth and look up Monolith, CA you will get a good view of it.  Trains ran west out of Mojave yard to Monolith to drop off empties and pick up loads.  It passed my grade school every day at 10:00 am westbound and 2:00 pm eastbound.  This just happened to correspond with recess so I was able to go to the fence with a couple of friends to watch the train.  Most were at least 50 cars and some had 100 or more.  If the engineer was feeling generous he would blow his horn for some ecstatic little boys.