Final pictures before the instructions are finished. Concrete on brick version, Module #1 and Module #2 attached, along with brick smokestack. Industry name can be engraved in 'tower' and optional plugs and freight doors can be installed in the front: 160' (12") tall smokestack with high definition brick. Almost ready! Just finishing up the instructions...I've really worked on making this module easy to build:
You have done a good job of capturing the feel and looks of the sugar beet factories that I remember from the mid 1950s and early 1960s for both Holly Sugar and Great Western Sugar.
Reminds me a bit of the Great Western/C&H sugar facility here in Longmont. Part of which still stands!
I didn't realize they were that common and widespread. The prototype is the only one I've ever seen in person and it was all concrete. I'm very glad the design has such versatility. I would be interested in everyone's opinion: I am offering two types of roofing...shingles and ribbed aluminum. Do you think there would be interest in a corrugated metal option?
Wow, that's beautiful, I don't care what roof is on it... something very, um, quintessential about it. Too bad i just can't use it on my proto based layout. Nice design and product! Regards, Otto K.
Don't know much about sugar beet factories, but the brick on brick with a modern looking roof will make for a nice brick factory complex main building.
Great Western Sugar - Longmont site. You can see the current, In Use silos just to the immediate right of the covered hoppers. Old silos, offices and milling structure just south of the road. Small, open area along road is former beet gon recieving yard. An exploration of this area, years ago, revealed a long lost GW wooden beet gon, still sitting, all alone!! What happened to it now, I do not know. Just right of grade crossing, is the original GW station structure. Still used, I think. This I am NOT sure of. Track then continues down hill, past a former wye, and interchanged with the Burlington/C&S at the bottom of the hill. I would strongly suggest the following, for more on the Great Western Railway and the sugar mills of Colorado. The Great Western Railway Kenneth Jessen 2007 J.V. Publications, Loveland, CO ISBN 978-1-928656-05-0 $24.95 Contains many old photos of the mill operations at various locations. Also a list of equipment used over the years, stations and more!
Woah! That one is a lot bigger than the one I'm doing! I found this cool painting of the model's prototype:
