modern industries

[Dallas Modern HO Scale]

hey guys im planning on building a layout early next month. im modeling UP and i was wondering if anyone has pictures of any modern industries (warehouses, scrap yards, etc.) that are common throughout the us that are switched frequently. i have tons of boxcars and i want to do switching. any pics are greatly appreciated

 

[Beachbum]

Aside from a refinery or chemical plant, virtually all modern industries around here look like Pike Stuff generic blue buildings. Add a couple silos and you have a plastics products plant, a couple holding tanks and a trackmobile and you have a foodstuffs transload facility. Pepperidge Farm has a bakery that looks like a big box with truck doors and a spur for flour hoppers (from trackside).

 

[Dallas Modern HO Scale]

Aside from a refinery or chemical plant, virtually all modern industries around here look like Pike Stuff generic blue buildings. Add a couple silos and you have a plastics products plant, a couple holding tanks and a trackmobile and you have a foodstuffs transload facility. Pepperidge Farm has a bakery that looks like a big box with truck doors and a spur for flour hoppers (from trackside).

thanks dude, never thought of that. still tho i need t look at somethin to make some. question, can i use any spray paint to paint the pikestuff blue buildings or just testors?

 

[Beachbum]

I use cheap plastic safe spray paint for most things. No point paying inflated prices for paint unless it's a RR specific color like BN Cascade green, etc.

 

[Dallas Modern HO Scale]

I use cheap plastic safe spray paint for most things. No point paying inflated prices for paint unless it's a RR specific color like BN Cascade green, etc.

kool, thanks

 

[Larry]

Put an address on this site & see if you can find what you are looking for;
vPike.com

 

[funnelfan]

Start looking at the Birds eye view at bing.com for some modern industries. For instance.

Foodstuffs warehouse in Clackamas, OR
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rk0n1j4smwph&scene=5590797&lvl=1&sty=b

Oregon Transfer handles a lot of Beer near Albina Yard in Portland
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rkv2fk4s726m&scene=5562397&lvl=1&sty=b

One really screwed up track arrangement in the streets of Portland, OR
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rkq1s54s77d5&scene=5567915&lvl=2&sty=b

If you look around , you will find a lot more industry. Even if there are no rail cars there in the view, that doesn't mean the industry is not shipping by rail. There are instances where there is nothing in one view, but you turn 90 degrees and there are railcars in that view.

 

[funnelfan]

Here is a unusual open dock place.
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rkv7304s49j4&scene=5562330&lvl=2&sty=o

 

[UP2CSX]

Don't overlook Walthers modulars for some older buildings to mix in. It's rare to have an industrial area without at least few older plants. They can be made pretty modern looking with some paint and details or old and rundown with some india ink and paint washes. Because the system is so flexible, you can make anything from a tiny one story building to a pretty big complex. Depending on your space available, an older plant that's abandoned, with an overgrown and trash strewn spur still in place, adds a lot of visual interest to otherwise boringly similar modern steel buildings.

 

[Dallas Modern HO Scale]

thanks guys ur al a great help

 

[GWT&P]

Here's the former Schlitz / Stroh's brewery in Longview. It's now a storage/distribution facility.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=pdg9hh732838&scene=37215727&lvl=1&sty=b
It's quite large.