Some Industrial Building ideas

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Thanks Berry ! Some great pictures here. We need a section just for these kind of pictures. A collection that would grow over time and the members can refer to for ideas. Great stuff! If you can get inside that foundry that would be great! :)
 
UP2CSX said:
Barry, what do they make at the pant in the second picture? Those power poles have an arrangement I've never seen. It almost looks like some kind of open transformer in the circle at the bottom.

We have a bunch of abandoned textile plants down here, including a very modern Russell Athletic Clothing plant that is only about 15 years old. It's huge and completely shut down. If you can't make money producing clothing in Alabama, there's no chance that we'll have any Noth American made clothing soon.
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Jim, they appear to be circuit breakers. The line is insulated between the two leads going to the breakers.

Larry
 
Bread&steel said:
Jim, they appear to be circuit breakers. The line is insulated between the two leads going to the breakers.

Larry
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I was going to mention that. The company there is, or was?, not sure if the company is in shut down mode now or what(?), made auto parts for GM. There is a pair of plants there--one is called Presstran and the other one which is practically next to it is called Formet.
 


Weird looking circuit breakers, if that's what they are. I worked around power distribution lines for a lot of years and have never seen a circuit breaker arrangement like that. Maybe this was something unique to Canada?
 
---mmm--mmm---:D

You think they're weird.:rolleyes::D:D You should see some of the things that I've seen for breaker arrangements when we were doing some photog work around the refineries in Sarnia!!:eek: I'd be like---d'uh---what's that when it's at home?:confused::eek:

In the photo on the right as an example---on the right hand side there are some power poles with the powerlines connected to the crossbar---apparently no higher than that. Then there are these, I take them to be "ground" wires just dropping down from the overhead wires---very odd that:confused::confused:---mind. I've worked around electronic pieces--not stuff like this so what do I know:confused::):)
 
I've seen lots of oil switches, or line breakers, but they are usually large round cans, with just two per pole. I've never seen them that shape or arranged the way they are on those two poles. Are those things around the bottom maybe floodlights or something? They just don't look like they have anything to do with a typical line breaker.
 
I have a few of these elevator things to toss up here

These were from around Strathroy ON. The Terra Gator I'd like to find in N scale---think that possible? HAH!!:rolleyes:
 
A few more of the things----elevators are neat things to build---no end in their variations:)

2 near Putnam ON,shiny new bins from a farm near Paris ON, old elevator in Monkton ON
 


Great pictues as usual, Barry. The one with the trafffic lights is really interesting to a street detail fanatic like me. It's rare to see arm mounted traffic light attached to a wood utility pole, like you see in the right side of the picture. You commonly see them attached to a free standing light standard, like the one on the left. Even more unusual is seeing the additional traffic lights in the same direction of travel, one on what looks to be a cut down light standard and the other below the traffic light for the opposite direction of travel. I guess whoever designed that intersection wanted to sure you would see a traffic light no matter which way you were looking. :)
 
A few scrapings off the pic file---

From L-R
1) Grain storage on a farm north of Whalen's Corners--just off highway 23

2)Mitchell--old elevator

3) Off the old Talbot trail by Big Creek---

4) Near Jarvis ON--granery
 
A few more--L-R

1,2) Stumbled upon a woodchip facility near Putnam ON. This will be photographed in more detail come the spring

3,4) We came across this interesting facility in Paris ON as well. This former church now houses a textile concern of a sort. This one definitely would make for an interesting reuse of an old building model on one's layout---
 
Barry, you always have such interesting shots. I sure wish I could make a siding look like the in the second pictures and still be able to run a train down it. That factory in an old church is sure a great one to model. Any idea of the history of when it turned to a factory from a church and why?
 
Jim Change was supposed to have happened sometime in the 1970's when the congregation that had it went to a newer/larger facility. The building was apparently empty for a number of years----have no clue when these fellows came in but the building is/was up for sale or lease when we last there
 
OK--A few more to toss in here---

From L-R 1) Lowry Signs has been in this location for decades. The CN main runs behind the building on a covered trestle through here--London ON. 2) An old shoe warehouse that is now a series of loft apartments--nr downtown London ON. 3) Car pulley for 4) grain elevator at North Glencoe ON. This elevator can load/unload up to 25 hoppers at a time...
 
And---a few more

L-R

1) and 2)---Loading facilities for a refinery near Sarnia ON

3) Ailsa Craig--very small elevator

4) Grain facility near Petrolia ON

Anyone out there with a few of their own to place in here? Go for it!:D:D:D
 
A few more.

L one is from the Carmeuse limestone quarries near Beachville ON---note the limestone dust on the powerlines even.

The rest are from an old elevator at Mitchell ON
 


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