Excelsior minerals wharf

This series of fotos is about building a minerals processing facility served by a railroad .

These three fotos show the wharf " as finished".I will follow these with  a series of fotos from the benchwork up.

Charley

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Micheal , fellows.

It is what it is...thank you for the help . I do not see this as a final work of art un sullied . It is a show of whot I am doing in the attic . Hopefully it will inspire others to go into the shop and enjoy the hobby. more fotos , benchwork and right on through chronological .

Charley

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These silos represent { to me!.} an older  time ."Brick" printed paper wrapped around plastic pipe. the roof is pink foam paved with Plastruct "tile" sheet

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Mill building on bench for details

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Cross yard conveyor structure underway , city water pipes installed . roof top tank not needed anymore..!.

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Crane bridge built , Barnhart loader fitted with clamshell is used to unload barges from across the water.It either dumps into conveyor system directly or to stockpile .

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It's all coming together!

I am impressed with this succession of photos and your rapid evolution as a blogger! Great job with both

Thanks for posting these sequentially - as I looked at the first couple of photos I thought to myself "hmm, that polygonal piece of foam looks familiar" and sure enough, it was what you'd shared in pictures previously. This time I could make sense of it all and was really interested in your varied and stylistic approach to modelling this waterfront industry. You have some very good talent. 

Your layout must have a number of gem-like locales to it and I'm excited to see more of them in detail.  

Blog success ,

Herman ,

Thank you ,

The model railroad is starting to have some areas which are somewhat beyond "just enough done".This Model was intended from the start to be a show piece as one comes in the door.In time as i can concentrate on specific areas there will be more of the layout done to this level . The Palms tower scene which I enjoy alot is next to float "A" . The bridge across the river is right there and on the other side is pine trees , A long bridge ?.

Neat shadow .

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The Conveyor to the bags loading building silo.That is the last of the EXMINCORP wharf series.

Car tugger

I took and am showing these fotos to illustrate the use of mechanical car movers.This truck  / rail loading ramp is in Luning Nevada .

An engineer friend tells me that freight cars have a hook under each bolster end to  use of these sorts of car movers.

Very nice presentation

Very nice presentation Charley!! I like the way you placed all the photos in order of construction. Make more scene and the photos alone tell the story along with your comments Very Nice. Your going to make the rest of us look bad LOL.

Dan

Nice Job

Nice Job Charley.. I really enjoyed seeing that waterfront appear out of nothing..

Chris

Looks

RG Dan , Chris ,

I found the right click  and the "preview" which made the job alot easier . I am happy with the result . Dan said I will run out of fotos.., It could thin out fast.. I need look and see what the standard of showing is.I expect the standard goes down as the stock goes down. I do build stuff which can be shown.The latest project is up to "sort of" done enough . The fishes dock is done up to a acceptable level .  I have not found enthusiasm to finish it up in detail. in time the muse will be there . It can stand as it is for now.

The fishes dock may become something else in time . I am not so excited about it being that . So it sits moribund. I had envisioned Reefer cuts loading fishes for the trip to the big city. That seems a bit dry to me today .

I have found that I can mix up 20 minute drywall mud and smoosh it between the tracks  to level the surface with the tracks . The rail base,not the tops of the rails . This seems quite effective . I used that at the EXMINCORP wharf to good effect. By using a cheap brush as it dries a nice effect can be had . The flangeways can be made by running a skewer along the inside base of the  rail as it dries too .

WM Hoppers

Fellows ,

I built this string of eight WM 70 T 40' hoppers when the "interstate railway " interchange was done . I built ten when they arrived . I did not have room for these eight on the layout  . I bought 18 of these one shot off HOYARDSALE , a yahoo group for buying and selling personal HO scale items.I found last night , er remembered buying  four more Roundhouse kits of these in "Virginia rly" paint . These bought at the annual local train show for $3 per each .

Two nice shots

Fellows

These are two nice fotos One is the Tidewater yard with a FM H 10 4 4 and the caboose track next to "Palms tower"

The next is the corner of the Gummint pier and the main line crossing . I like the tower . It is a minikits {AHM?} one which is closer to "S" scale than  HO I gave it to an "S" scaler and have since bought another kit . Another show deal , $3.00 or so.

Ouch!

Experiencing..............Sensory overload............Foto madness..........Just how big IS this railroad of yours, Cholly?

RAH

Zephyrus

Floater , Micheal, fellows..

The attic space is 33' x 12 'for the further half of it's length  and 33' x 10'..for the near to the door half of it.

I like those hoppers too. There is alot to the "placing" of buildings . I do not have a studied , learned sense.I seem to do what I like and others think that is neat too.Good for me I guess.Another BIG point is I am willing to change things . Keith Pattison was just here and we discussed the re-model of the whole North east {actual } corner of the layout . He made some suggestions which were right on track and will be incorporated.He is mentioned as well for his service to mankind , humanity and etc. He printed a new backdrop for me and brought it over . This is seen in one of the shots to be included. more of it will be seen as time goes on.It is a fabulous thing . I have not quite grasped the import of it quite yet . Takes  bit for this stuff to settle in for me.The backdrop is from fotos I took in Portland Oregon. They are of the east side of the Willamette river , from  the west side...Keith cropped some stuff , edited it and made a very wonderful show of it..thank you Keith.

Zephyr rounds at the "Interstate Railway " interchange with  the new backdrop i .

This is Limestone . The breaker on right is the coal loader with barge crane behind . Everything to the right of the hoppers string is slated for re building .

Float "A" in foreground , Bridge over the river why approach .

Bridge over the . Float "A" in left rear

This is the Zephyr track on the edge of the Tidewater yard diesel house .

Uuuuum Apologies

Fellows..

I was vague and in accurate in responding to the floaters question .This attic is 33' long Total ...12' wide for half it's length , 10' wide for half it's length.Hopefuly that clarifies the thing.This space is also restricted to about a five foot  width of headroom  to  six foot  along it's length . This begot the 31 " high layout top . I usually have four  {rollie} wheeled office  chairs around the room. I own six or seven and can import them for more operators. Last saturday night we had five operators and me. The next best idea is to have little red stools positioned by the fascia plug ins .  Engineers sit on the stool whilst operating in each area . The  rollie chairs are for the conductor / brakeman who need move around . We use two man crews. The crew changes location as the train goes around the layout . This may sound restrictive but it works quite well in practice as we do not have trains running past each other very often.The layout was envisioned to have "east" and " west " operations . This has gone by the wayside due not enough passing tracks . Since then we have longer passing tracks also known as double ended sidings . The thing is , there is no main line per se. it is all switching lead which makes it hard to run a through train and switching operations as it was planned.The method now is to run all trains "Clockwise " to the right !..and then nose to tail . One train needs finish switching an area before the next train can move into it.We have found that three trains can be run . The re model of the Limestone area will allow a switcher to operte in that area while three other trains work . this probably will push the limit of space for people in the attic as well .

End of tirade , I will look for  a foto to add

That is probably his car right there .

Wild....

...I would have never thought of putting a Tri-motor on floats. Ever. But if you've got photos, why not?

A nicely scenicked layout you have there.

Floats

Jeff , Fellows..

We got water . Scads of water , no problem getting runway length . Sometimes when operations get severe , we have largish humans wading about in the estuary causing all manner of shore erosion.

Shewn next to Pattison LTL break bulk facility .

Off isde view of Tidewater yard . Palms tower in foreground . Diesel house in rear left.

SW 7 weather

Fellows

More fotos of the two SW 7 's. one weathered , one with scary stripes painted a bit darker shade.It is drying on bench now after being weathered .

SW 7 weather final

Fellows ,

I have weathered the second unit . I lightened up the weathering  a bit with a wet Q tip . The water base wash can be lifted off a bit by this method. A dry Q tip will   buff up the finish too . I may have gone a bit overboard on weather . I am satisfied now.