Richlawn RR V1 Sand house

This is a kit bash of a welding shop which I repurposed into a sand drying structure.  I hand carved foam blocks for the retaining area.

Unique C&NW Sanding Facility

Modeled from drawings in Joseph Folmer's  Locomotive Facilities C&NW and CMO. Original was located in Ironwood, MI

Hans - very nice!  You did a

Hans - very nice!  You did a great job on the facility!

Thanks RIck

Great job on yours! I like the individual cement blocks. They really set it off.

Nice models guys they look

Nice models guys they look very nice.

just for interest

Here's what was used to dry the sand:

   and to blow the dry sand up to the hopper:

At least that's what was at the bottom of the tower (Ontario Northland, Timmins Ontario, late 1970s)

David

Beautiful work....

...as usual, Rick.

1. The signs on the building are outstanding.

2. The blending of the foundation into the surrounding ground is very nice.

Are you into creating lighting effects for the welding torches inside the building?

-Al

Thanks, everyone!

I appreciate your kind words.

Al - I edited my original picture to include in the description that the welding shop had be repurposed into the sand drying house.

Any more sand towers / drying houses out there?

We'd love to see your pictures!

Sand shed & tower

This is my version of a Canadian Pacific light steam locomotive sanding shed.  I was inspired by the Jack Work article in the early 1960s M.R.  It is an 'S' scale (3/16 = 1 ft) scratch-built structure using Evergreen styrene painted to look like weathered wood.

I entered this model into an MRA achievement program and won best of show in the 1970s.  The AP program and Jack Work's work inspired me to work towards the the highest standard I was capable of.  The model is a little 'shelf-worn' now, but it shows how I was able to develop skill in fine- scale scratch building.  Since then I was able to make my living for 25 years building models (getting paid to eat candy!)

If there is interest, I would be very happy to share more of my projects.

Does this one count?

Hi all,

The sand-drying shed at Corrimal colliery was near the water tank at the top end of the incline and about a mile away from the mine. The reasons for this location are lost in time. However the 2' gauge tramway it served ran a continuous slight upgrade to the mine. The small locomotives the sand drying shed served also had only very limited sand capacity and were loaded by the bucket.

There is only one known photo that might be of the sand drying shed. It is a partial photo that shows a simple corrugated iron shed with what looked like a an almost flat skillion roof 

Here's our attempt at the Corrimal colliery sand-drying shed.

 As built, a very basic tin shed on about a 12' by 12' footprint with a flue through the roof for the sand cooker inside.  The track outside the shed is known to have had a small wagon turntable of about 4' diameter that led to the track at the side of the shed. This track was probably used to store a skip or two of coal for the sand dryer. Bagged sand was probably delivered to the sandhouse by pit pony after it was delivered in empty skips returning back up the incline.

It definitely isn't your "typical" larger sandhouse design, but hey it worked, 

Kanamodels Kit

Here is my CPR sand house built from a Kanamodels kit. 

Scratch-built

A project started many years ago and never finished. Scratch-built copy of Campbell's sand house.

Bernd

Just Finished My Engine Terminal

On my SP Donner Pass Route. Roseville has a sand and drying house and a distribution tower. The sand bin is walthers, the house is AHM, and the large distribution tower is scratchbuilt combining elements from several photos I found. 

A scaled down 1970's version of the one used by the WM

Scratch built and selectively compressed model from the Hagerstown MD Western Maryland sand tower,

Scratch sand house plans

Here is a link to my plans for a scratch built sand house and tower:

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=30964.0

An old image from a layout of

An old image from a layout of mine long gone.

Concrete sand house to the right of the tower:

I still have the sand house and tower packed away in a closet.

Hey Rick how about I cheat a

Hey Rick how about I cheat a bit and include a view of the engine terminal with my coal tower. 

There is a sand tower to the left.

This is a

Diamond Scale Const. sand tower.  This company was in Oakridge Ore. when I bought this kit. They have since moved to Glendale, Arizona, and now currently is in Alliance, Ohio.  I don't have a sand house as of yet, with the constraints of the yard size, I was going to have piping coming from the engine house area. Although now, I am contemplating removing the divider on the peninsula and making the whole peninsula a yard.....

We'll, OK Rob.....just because its you

We'll allow it.  And a very nice scene it is!

looks good  ..i'm looking

looks good  ..i'm looking forward doing some buildings. 

James

Terminal Too.

With all these fine looking scratch-built models here I'm a little embarrassed, but here's my sand house and tower (in the background), part of my engine terminal.  It's real sand in the bin, does that count?