On my original Puddington valley layout I had a brewery called the Stratton Brewing Company - It was one of my first attempts at "kit mingling".... The original Puddington Valley layout is long gone but many of the buildings have survived. The large tower of the Stratton Brewery has indeed survived and will now be part of the new Stratton Brewing Company on the Northhill module. The new brewery looks like many century old industries; many different buildings making up a "mixed bag" of architecture and styles that somehow function as one..... The idea is that the raw material preparation is done in large tanks in the large multi story building on the right. The taller structure behind is the grains andprep area. The new "center section" is a brick and metal siding affair that has a glass and steel front - in order to allow the public and patrons to see the brewing tanks. The interior of the central section is detailed. The old tower is the packaging building and has several shipping doors facing the front parking lot. The original brewery, a century and a half old stone building is still on the property - it now serves as offices and a retail store/tasting room and meeting rooms. A resin stone building and barn have been used. The central section has skylights as well as a glass front; somewhat like the old Fleet Street Molson brewry and the Toronto Labatt brewery do. The large building is serviced by a rail siding and the entire brewery will be the second largest industry on the Northhill section..... The caustic tanks on the right are the little tubes those micro brushes come in.... recycling works.... More pictures next post !
More pictures............. As my layout is set in 1973, the use of the rail siding would be for incoming raw materials rather than for shipping finished product. Corrugated; boxboard, glass, crowns, barley, malt, and other raw materials allow for a good mix of incoming full cars. Beer would be shipped mainly by truck..... The tanks and workers are in plain sight...."hmmmmm...beer"......(H. Simpson) The old homestead and barn add a "British Columbia" flavour - kind of a take off on the many similar scenes in the interior where wineries have used the old farm houses and manors for their tasting rooms...... The brewery adds a lot of switching potential and is a nice link back to the 1993 Puddington Valley layout..... thanks for visiting !
wow very nice!!! (yes im a sucker for industries). can you tell a little bit more about the blue building (brand, kit, bashed, etc...) and tell us more about the building with the interior please. im really curious. stevenb
My layout is home to the “Lost Coast Brewing Company” located in the “High Eureka Industrial Park” and if I ever get around to shooting some new photos of it I’ll post them. The LCBC is either the world’s largest micro-brewery or the world’s smallest macro-brewery, anywho, it generates a lot of traffic. I like some of the things you did with your structure . . .I’ll be stealing the ideas as needed. Breweries are a great source for traffic justifying box cars, covered hoppers, insul-boxes, reefers, and even tank cars. Throw in a flat car or gondola load of new equipment now and then and you can make a clean sweep.
To early for beer but not for trains. Where did you get the PGE trailers? Like the pics. they look good. Show us more please.
Thanks for your kind words Steve ! The grain structure (blue building) is a simple fabrication using Evergreen styrene sheet (metal siding .030 ) and their tube as a frame. I cut some doors in the sides and made platforms from styrene and some pre produced handrails. The roof appliances are mostly California Details I bought years ago on Evil Bay. The tank house is made from styrene; both .040 white and clear. The front was covered with a N scale brick paper and then sealed with dullcoat. Then it was darkened and weathered with powders. The girders are Evergreen styrene I girders. The inside tanks are a mix of Walthers tanks; a couple of pieces of plastic tube and a piece of an old salt shaker for a "v" shaped tank bottom.....The interior had brick paper walls glued on, the floor was painted aged concrete and then weathered a bit then gloss coated for a "resin" type shine. Lines were painted on the floor for safety striping and railings were added. Here's a picture of the inside while building it.... Really simple structures but effective when placed in conjunction with the commercial kits.
thanx for the info, puddington! these post are good for inspiration, ill have to try to make my own industries to, cause in Nscale there are not that many good modern industrial buildings i think. stevenb
Pink Fox Breweries Coincidentally I started my first "Pink Fox Brew" today. I have no idea how it will come out: Hmm, if the coincidence of me starting this today is not enough as I was posting this my local country western station (which I have not listened to in well over 6 months), was playing "Beer For My Horses". go figure. Back ground: My mother gave me $50 for my birthday. This "kit" from "Mr.Beer" was on sale at CVS where I work. I had special coupons that brought the cost down to about $20. Puddington - can you give a "basic ingredients / buildings / processes" that make up a brewery? Thanks!
Having spent a lot of time in the back end of many breweries (the packaging area) I can speak only generally about the entire process, other than bottling and packaging. Raw materials are received (depending on the size of the operation and type this can include malts, grains, barley, chemicals etc....) These are processed in very large, tall buildings that are either one very large building ( newer brewery ) or in a number of older buildings connected by a very complex series of conveyors and pipes. The brewing process uses a number of very large kettles and vessels that brew and process the ingredients and make "beer". These are multi stage vessels and holding and storage tanks. Often there are smaller secondary tanks for aging, additives and other sub processes. Packaging materials are received at another area; these include corrugated containers; boxboard containers, cans and glass, crowns, labels, pallets etc..... These are all used in the packaing/bottling area. To model a bottling area would be an insane task as it is literally a maze of overhead and ground level small "trough" like converyers that whisk bottles and cans at high speed. (Unless you're used to abrewery and it's small, you may never drink beer again after visiting one) The filled bottles are then sent to the packing area where they are automatically packed in cases and palletized. These pallets go to a warehouse/shipping area and then on to trucks. (Unless you're Coors who send semi finished beer in tanker cars by rail, but that's another story) When I modeled my brewery I worried less about following a logical process flow than creating an image of old and new buildings flowing together. I added some process lines - more would have been ok too. Roof applicances; exhaust stacks ( lots of steam used in breweries, large boilers and fuel tanks too, unless they are on gas) more process lines and lots of truck traffic are also key elements. Rail used would be dependant on your era; not a lot of beer shipped by rail today; although it's not unheard of. 1950's saw LCL and full car load shipments start to wain in favour of trucks. Raw materials are still brought in to some breweries by rail so that's a good starting place. Hope this very limited description helps !
Here’s my “Lost Coast Brewing Co.” located in the “High Eureka” business park. I’d like to get some nice colorful signs to go with it but. . .
sd90ns... Ya need to 'dirty up' them buildings. If breweries really where that clean... I would almost be tempted to drink beer....ROFLMAO!! .
Looking good - I like the roof details - very nice ! If you have a design for your logo and signs send me a file and I'd be happy to print some stuff for you...
Originally posted by mtntrainman “sd90ns... Ya need to 'dirty up' them buildings. If breweries really where that clean... I would almost be tempted to drink beer....ROFLMAO!!” Unfortunately my “weathering” skills are sadly lacking. Everything I try to weather winds up looking like it had been pawed by a two year old just after he had “eaten” a half melted Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
@ sd90ns I have that same yellow 'powerflo' hopper that I see on your picture and I can't find any info about who made the model. I got it at a show ready built and no one can identify it. Any help?
It is an old Walthers’ offering circa early 90s. Never been re-released. You had to be careful when buying them as they are glued together and many of them were not assembled correctly leaving them to travel down the track tilted to one side.
