SP/SSW Doyle Bond Cotton Gin, Burton, Texas

Flash Blackman Jul 8, 2007

  1. Flash Blackman

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    Burton, Texas has a Cotton Gin Museum in the old cotton gin there. We wanted a cotton gin like this on the SAMRA layout, so Doyle Bond volunteered to make one. Ours was smaller version of the real thing, but the Burton Museum wanted to Doyle to build them a scale replica of the real thing. He brought it to the layout last Saturday; here are the pictures of the final item made for the museum.

    The building was carefully measured and built to scale. It is entirely scratch built as it is today, which explains the clean appearance. I will only comment further to point out all the uneven roof, eves, gutters, dormers, etc. It is a heck of a big project to accomplish and Doyle did a great job on this one with a lot of roof lines.

    Doyle and building. It's H0 scale; you can see the footprint.
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    Not bad, I would say!
     
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    Here's the prototype picture from the website; gives you an idea.

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    WOW !!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbs_up::shade:
     

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