Hi all,
Following the discussion and the great help i got from fellow members in this thread
http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?39052-Brewery-Questions
I started off with using the Champion packing plant from walthers and kitbashed it to a medium sized brewery. Lots of work is still required till i reach the finish line. The brewery is supposedly located in the general area of north San Diego, in the mid sixties.
The rear and side walls of the kit have been cut to various pieces in order to create a bottling plant extension to the right of the main building. Cutting was also required in order to arrange doors so that they match 50' boxcars. To the left of the main building i used the walls of the smaller building of the kit (boiler room i think it was or something) in order to expand the main and create office and other auxiliary spaces.
Cutting walls, merging, correcting, rescribing and adding styrene were required all along the construction. The rear walls are made using 2mm styrene, they are not yet cemented into place. Internal bracing will be used (styrene I-beams) in order to make all this more solid. Some leftover silos from the cement plant project are put into place to the left of the building for grain storage. These will be cut to be made shorter and will be blended with the rest of the building.
So front wall (Going from left to right: administrative space / main brewery / bottling). Since this is over 30" long i braced it internally with aluminium beams epoxied into place.
Placed on the layout temporarily without any cars
With some boxcars placed in spots (6-9 spots for 50' boxcars in the three parallel tracks, ie 3 rows of 3 cars, 40' boxcar spots for grain unloading, spent grain loading again 40' boxcar, gondola spot for broken glass etc.)
Thanks for looking
Yannis
Following the discussion and the great help i got from fellow members in this thread
http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?39052-Brewery-Questions
I started off with using the Champion packing plant from walthers and kitbashed it to a medium sized brewery. Lots of work is still required till i reach the finish line. The brewery is supposedly located in the general area of north San Diego, in the mid sixties.
The rear and side walls of the kit have been cut to various pieces in order to create a bottling plant extension to the right of the main building. Cutting was also required in order to arrange doors so that they match 50' boxcars. To the left of the main building i used the walls of the smaller building of the kit (boiler room i think it was or something) in order to expand the main and create office and other auxiliary spaces.
Cutting walls, merging, correcting, rescribing and adding styrene were required all along the construction. The rear walls are made using 2mm styrene, they are not yet cemented into place. Internal bracing will be used (styrene I-beams) in order to make all this more solid. Some leftover silos from the cement plant project are put into place to the left of the building for grain storage. These will be cut to be made shorter and will be blended with the rest of the building.
So front wall (Going from left to right: administrative space / main brewery / bottling). Since this is over 30" long i braced it internally with aluminium beams epoxied into place.
Placed on the layout temporarily without any cars
With some boxcars placed in spots (6-9 spots for 50' boxcars in the three parallel tracks, ie 3 rows of 3 cars, 40' boxcar spots for grain unloading, spent grain loading again 40' boxcar, gondola spot for broken glass etc.)
Thanks for looking
Yannis
