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

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

This series shows the Bench , the pink foam , then painted ,then the seawalls and piling added .

Charley

Ground foam and sand dribbled onto brushed on white glue /waterdrop of soap mix . The sand from the home builder supply . Big bag for several dollars ! A lifetime supply.

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

The windows are from the walthers "Front street " warehouse kit . I needed to figure out the sizes , mark them , I  applied paint and pressed them against the wall . Then cut out the section with an exacto knife . This is plastruct "brick" wall as well.

Mill building in the rough.

Charley

Silos and mill building

Mill building on bench for details

Mill building as painted and weathered.. There has been some subtle things done since. Glaring things revealed in fotos ?...

Starting the conveyor systems .

Charley

Cat sixty delivered to move materials in yard silo .Conveyor access buildings weathered

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

This is one of my favorite pitchers to come out of this set.The cross yard conveyor structure shewn.

The yard conveyor feeder system . Cat sixty pushes materials into trough for Conveying to system . These walls are designed ot keep materials stockpiled from under railcars.

Charley

Machinery door and dock , supervisor contemplates diving .

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 .

Stockpile has grown some weeds , Railfan photographer is on hand having arrived in the Model "A" .

Rough Plexiglas frame for Bags loading building being tried for fit.

Charley

Bags building "brick" walls being built .

Bags loading  building on paint bench . Pipes from scrap box . Building addition  from a common plastic kit .

Bags loading bulk silo in place .

"Dip stick" shovel  , A friend who would know called it that . A neat scenic feature .

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.  

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 ?.

The tower is an Ertel product , or an actual tower along the RF&P ? The stron light comes in through the attic window . It creates very nice  shadows .

Neat shadow .

Almost done.

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