Power plants

Have you tried the search facility located on the upper right of the MRH web page? Try searching for Power plant or Power station.

You may just try searching

You may just try searching the internet and use google maps. I worked for Houston Lighting and Power about 20 years ago, The Parish plant in Houston is a good example and google maps will show you the track layout. I don't know what era you are modeling so that will make a difference. If modeling a modern facility keep in mind that the track work for unit trains of coal take up quite a bit of real estate.

Greg

Try the following

Do a inter-web search for 'coal fired power plant'. I followed the link to https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants.Here will show locations of Coal Fired Power Plants that are still in existence. Go to Google Earth and search for the name of the plant from the carbonbrief web site. Here is a snip of the Georgia Power Plant Scherer facility.

There are plenty of other examples around the country. Happy hunting.

Habs Haer

Searching the HABS HAER site for "power plant building" I go 40 pages of images and maps.

Collegeville PA

One of my favorite layout sized power plants is the one at Collegeville, PA, along Rte 29.

The former RDG Perkiomen Branch is now the Perkiomen Trail.  The RDG sits about 20 ft above Rte 29 and the spur to the plant curved off the main (there are still a few piers left) and then ran up to the lower left corner of the building.

Street view, an earlier picture because the piers are mostly intact.

Thanks for the replies.  I

Thanks for the replies.  I had never heard of the HABS HAER site.  I did search on MRH and saw a few posts.  I am modeling the 70's and many plants are gone since then and operations have changed.

Power plant

My power plant represents a Portsmouth Light and Power operation in Portsmouth, NH.  As with the prototype, it sits between a major road bridge and a brewery. 

Unfortunately, it does < 0 for operation since coal is delivered by barge and ship rather than by rail.  Again prototypical. 

I have a couple of hoppers from anthracite roads to heat up the soft coal when pollution is high, but this is entirely fictitious to satisfy my model railroad needs.

There are plenty of coal pockets further up the Piscataqua River where vessels unload coal for transfer to the railroad, but the coal is all bound for inland New England and uses cars from the region rather than traditional coal roads. 

If I have this wrong, feel free to swing the shovel.  I can take it  

Small power plant

Another more modern small plant is the power plant at Fremont, NE along the former CNW.   Nice and small, next to the city and a residential area.  Coal fired, rail served, bounded by roads on two sides so you can "see" it with Google Street view, has been in service for decades, so serves several eras.

If you look at the plant they have a small yard on the other side of E 1st St where the cars are set out.  They bring the cars over the dump (gravity dump to conveyor) in the lower left corner in cuts of 6 or 7 cars, using a car mover on either end.  If you look closely at the Google Satelitte view you can see one car emptied, one about half full being dumped and the rest of the cut still loaded.  Then the put the empties in the track in the picture, when its full they  shove them into the yard on the east side of 1st St.