Was wondering what everyone thought of this track plan for a cement plant. It's my first ever design and hopefully, I'll be putting on my first ever layout soon. The bottom most line is the single main. The next line up is a siding used for the local when switching the plant. The red line simply shows that the sidings might be longer than shown, I just wanted to show that there were switches on the plan to get back onto the main for run arounds and such. The brown area is a quarry, as this cement plant will be on site for a stone company. Building 1 is the aggregate storage building. Trucks from the quarry will bring the stone up to this building from the quarry, so it is not brought in by rail. Buildings 2 and 3 are the blending and kiln buildings. Building 4 is the silos, and Bldg 5 is a bagging building where some of the cement will be bagged and shipped by boxcar. The gray lines are conveyors or pipes used to transport the cement/materials around the facility. What do you guys think? Feel free to change the drawing to another layout design. [ June 02, 2005, 12:28 PM: Message edited by: Lake Cities ]
Lake Cities. I would try to keep the blending and kiln buildings in line with each other. Most cement plants I've seen are set up in a linear manner. Materials move from the blending silo through a preheater/calciner, then move directly through the kiln. After the "clinker" comes out of the kiln, it is cooled and ground into finished cement. This then goes into the silos, as you have shown in your trackplan. My suggestion woukld be to move the kiln to the same side as the blending building and swap the silos and bagging plant locations. The overall track plan looks good though. I just doubt that the prototype would pass the raw materials that far over tracks to the kiln. Please keep us posted and show photos of your progress. I love cement plants for operational purposes. Eric
