Interesting use of Coil Cars

I applaud your use of the Walther's coil cars as a pseudo National Car Company (NX) milk car, as were used upon the NYO&W and other Eastern RR's.......The appropriate use of the Hunter Green paint scheme and Dairyman's League lettering really sells this admittedly "foobie" car. 

Thank You

Ralph, 

Thanks for your comments. I thought that the coil car looked pretty close to a milk car so it got modified a couple of years ago. 

John

Nice group of associated industries

Yep, the coil cars are a very effective choice for bulk milk cars. Good conversion job.  The hand painting looks as good as any airbrush job!  

I would like to see your other facilities, or plan sketch, for the associated ice plant and brewery. 

Selfish reason - I am planning a milk run scenario, from milk can platform to dairy to cleanout track to icing platform and out the next morning.  I will also have one or two breweries and one receiving distributor. Each location would take no more than 2x40 ft cars

For me, the cleanout track next to the dairy adds one more bit of operation.  Every dairy has a cleanout track. Of course, you could ignore it or have it "off-scene", no problem

Everything looks very good, this is my suggestion, worth price paid: I would add some grey+ red mortar between the bricks, just my preference, then dry brush the mortar and bricks with the same brick color to fade the mortar, make it less noticeable in those broad lines. It really looks good as it is, your pref.  Might experiment in the back unexposed bricks.  

I really like the roof hatches on the flat roof.

Nice repurpose of an old kit!

Nice repurpose of an old kit!

Industries at San Angela

Hi Doug,

Thanks for all of your comments & suggestions. The building was purchased about 15 years ago and glued together for use on my previous layout. It has remained unpainted until this past weekend. 

The town itself is loosely modeled using Bruce Chubb's town of San Clemente on his original Sunset Valley Railroad.  San Angela does have a house track so maybe any cleanout could be simulated there. There is also a milk dock at Union Station (not shown in this video) where milk would come in from the east to generate some freight traffic to the Brookside M&C.  While it may not be correct in the way milk is handled, I did want some on layout traffic generation. I have done some brick washes in the past so I might go back to that building in the future for some enhancements.

John

Old Assembled Buildings

Hi Allen,

Thank you for your comment.  That building is about 15 years old and was assembled as a placeholder on my previous layout (an N-Scale version of the Sunset Valley RR) and remained unpainted until about a week ago.  I have about 30 more assembled buildings to be painted and weathered so I just decided to do a few.  

John