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Prolific poster 8,861 posts railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

Back when I first re-entered the hobby, the modular concept was really ramping up. Folks where constructing modules with all sorts of individual themes. One that came to my mind was a powerplant scene/module. I had written,...

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The power plant subject came up on another thread just recently, and that is what prompted me to look back for this posting. I just don't recall seeing a lot of good power plant scenes that might cover a broad era of their use.

As I mentioned before not a lot of young folks even know where and how our electrical power comes from/is generated. I wanted to create a whole scene with the older style coal plant (with coal piles sitting along side the delivery tracks). then perhaps some ongoing construction to a portion of that plant with turbines sections (peaking and otherwise) being added to the plant.

Then over the river bridges (source of cooling waters),... a nuclear plant under construction. I had (have) collected lots of various transformer delivery train cars, and lots of various style construction cranes This could be a pretty exciting scene to visit, particularly with today's multiple flashing LED lights on construction equipment.

I began collecting lots of construction cranes. I seem to recall that a lot of them came from European sources, sold thru Walthers. I saw some modules at the Timonium show with multiple cranes involved in tall building construction, and one very impressive one with multiple tall fire fighting equipment/crane type ladders fighting a burning building (lots of flashing lights, etc).

Naturally the mere height of these cranes catches our eye.
 

So what I am seeking here is for images that other folks might have on their layouts, OR images they may have captured at a train show or a club layout,....SHOW US YOUR CRANES....

 

 

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

...like this one I saw on the

...like this one I saw on the York model railroad layout
 

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Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

not exactly a construction crane

not exactly a construction crane, but also not a rail car crane

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Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

Custom Bulit N-scale Cranes

...from another forum

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Check out these N scale cranes I photographed at the Arctic Run Train Show in Stevens Point, WI earlier this year: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2xHdjzRuVa2pjtLw6

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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Nsmapaul Frequent poster 686 posts
Nsmapaul

Liebherr LTM 1300-6.2

Makes appearances on the layout when heavy lifting is required.BE8320F.jpeg 

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 “If it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape. If it doesn’t move and it should, use WD40.”
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Rasselmag Frequent poster 539 posts
Rasselmag

Gottwald 850t

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Kibri kit from the 1980's

Lutz
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

cranes at Japanese show

I think there are a few cranes at this show...

http://www.p-kun.com/gallery/topics/shizuoka2008/show2008-2.html

 

...including this particular one that can ride the rails...

 

Kibri made a model of this one,   #16000

I have one, along with a somewhat similar model with road tires.... Kibri 10130

 

 

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

I think there are a few

I think there are a few cranes at this show...

http://www.p-kun.com/gallery/topics/shizuoka2008/show2008-2.html

 

...including this particular one that can ride the rails...

 

 

Kibri made a model of this one,   #16000

I have one, along with a somewhat similar model on road tires.... Kibri 10130

 

 

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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Bob_A Active Member 66 posts
Bob_A

Harbour Front

Loading buoys onto an Isle Class Canadian Coast Guard inland waters specialty vessel.  Kibri crane, modified Sylvan buoys and scratch-built ship.

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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

low quality models of heavy equipment

...from another forum

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Smaller driveable or trailerable equipment (excavators, shovels, boom graders, cranes, etc) tends to have the cab on the left side.

Tracked draglines and boom cranes, except for Lima, and as far as I know have the cab on the right. Putting the cab on the left causes all kinds of engineering problems when you leave hydraulically controlled cranes and go to braked drum operation. Lima uses left hand rotation diesel engines to get around the problems.

I suppose there would be other solutions, but I do not have any experience with them.

It amazes me how modelers that insist that locomotives must be accurate down to the headlight style and walkway tread will settle for such low quality models of heavy equipment.

Kevin

Brian

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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

Superb n-scale cranes

...from that same forum

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I never met a master styrene modeler that made me feel inferior before

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The mans work was phenomenal

His display was at the big train show that only comes through St Paul about every 7 to 10 years

N scale all custom built piece-by-piece with styrene

 

I'm not saying I don't think I could do this but I would need a whole lot more time on my hands and a strong desire to want one to make the time

With that said  I just had to appreciate this talented artist's work

 

Those are wonderful models, but I wonder if they ever built something like these tracked vehicles to support crane loads like these tall structures could handle ??

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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Modeltruckshop Prolific poster 1,050 posts
Modeltruckshop

good stuff Brian

https://www.liebherr.com/en/usa/products/mobile-and-crawler-cranes/mobile-and-crawler-cranes.html

You might like their site here if you have never checked it out Brian.  Other crane companies have the same thing.   

   I liked the quote too about the vehicles or equipment.  I agree with that guy.  Somebody that has worried about every nut and bolt on the railroad portion of a layout somehow has cheap toyish cars and trucks and it seems like a swing and a miss somehow to me.

 
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Modeltruckshop Prolific poster 1,050 posts
Modeltruckshop

another

Here is a company we use at work frequently.

https://ccgroup-inc.com/

 

 

Steve
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J D Regular poster 290 posts
J D

Cranes and Steel Mills

Hey Brian and All,

Just 2 days ago I stumbled upon an amazing video (in my mind) of a layout that has some serious detailed history of PA steel mills.  The owner has incorporated very historic/realistic operations of steel mills in western PA but also included the heavy construction side of these massive complexes

For Brian...this video has modeled heavy construction cranes...and the steel mill aspect that you brought up in older topics.

Im not part of this video in any way. It was made by Mr. Stephen Bennet and he filmed Mr. Scott Woods layout.

Hope this give you several ideas Brian. (pay attention in the background....there are cranes everywhere.)

 

 
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Rasselmag Frequent poster 539 posts
Rasselmag

Liebherr LTM 1800

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I own this and i built this. Some years ago as the dustlayer evidences.

Tip: If you place such construction equipment onto your Plywood Pacific or better said Plywood Industrial Development Site, nobody will see the plywood, because all eyes are fixed onto this construction machines.

 

Lutz
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

Certainly draws ATTENTION, plus part of my collection

Lutz,...that's what I figured as well. I just don't have much extra space on my layout plan,...and since I have a double deck I will be limited in what I might place on my lower deck. That lower deck is where I was hoping to place a crane that might be unloading a big heavy electrical transformer into the power plant area.

A couple of the model cranes I've collected up,..

Kibri #10438

 

Kibri #10738

 

Kibri #10784

 

Kibri #10202

 

(I think I went a little overboard....ha...ha)

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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Bob_A Active Member 66 posts
Bob_A

Space

Brian

Yes they tend to be tall.  I tried the building crane at one show, however it kept getting knocked over.  The vertical mast is modular, so you don't need to build it as high.

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Another option is to show the crane just arriving and being setup.  Lots of small truck activity during the rigging.  For the lattice boom cranes there are flat-deck semis carrying the components and a small 15 - 25 ton crane for assembly (see my harbour post on page one).

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Bob
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

Steel Making Video

Thanks for that video link JD.

Sure gives folks an idea of how the USA produced all that steel that was needed to build that huge amount of war material and vehicles needed for WWll  ,...on not just against one enemy, but 2 spread across the world. WOW !!

(that video is really well done, I haven't gotten all way thru it yet as its quite long)

 



 

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

SPACE

When you mentioned 'space' I thought back to the time I considered building a Saturn V space rocket with its attending gantry onto a modular scene. That rocket in HO scale would have been quite tall !!

 

 

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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dennis461 Regular poster 166 posts
dennis461

Does this qualify

Does this qualify? USS rail crane, re-rigging for heavy lift.

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J D Regular poster 290 posts
J D

Re Rigging

Great idea Dennis.

I now work for a heavy construction company...haul major over-sized loads like D-9 Cats with massive blades.  Ive never thought of the little things at work like this.  I see that scene all the time in real life.  Great idea.

You also gave me a new avenue for my many wreck trains.  My wife purchased a box of 13 wreck HO scale cranes on EBAY not long ago...I wanted to repaint/number them...never thought of USS.  Thank you for a great idea.
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,861 posts
railandsail

Cranes at particular times of video

There are a number of cranes thruout this video,...per these examples

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
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Bernd MRH Author 5,632 posts
Bernd

Assembling a Liebherr - LR1500 crawler crane

Bernd

New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds - NCSWIC
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