Here's my next project along 9th Street in downtown Modesto. The J.S. West mill complex. The prototype complex takes up an entire city block, and includes a furniture store and feed store along with the mill. I don't have room for the furniture store and am going to have to relocate the feed store, but I'm going to try to do all of the silos and hoppers. It seems like a pretty cool project as it's a pretty compact operation. Lots of details though! Here's a few prototype pictures - the first one is mine from 1998, the others are compliments of Google Maps:
I posted another thread asking about how to make the silos - I went w/ the PVC method. They still need detailing....
That's cool Dave, neat looking project. Yep I'll be keeping my eyes on this project also. Always a worthwhile watch:tb-wink::thumbs_up: Glen
Yup.. Remember that block too.. I used to buy my Alfalfa there to take out to my sister's ranch in the foothills where my wife and daughters horses were.. Again, just a few blocks away from where we lived. I think that entire block were all affiliated and owned by the same family wasn't it?
The storage hoppers on the SP track side taking shape. The prototype is a hodge-podge of different size/style equipment cobbled together over the years. I'm really having to study my pictures and slides....This is a fun project!
Neat stuff Dave. I shot some photos of that place as well as a truck making a delivery. Just drove over the bin in the ground they unloaded cars at and dumped.
Ooo, nice work, Dave. Your building and hoppers look perfect. How did you get the angles on the hoppers just right? Did you eyeball it? Build mock-ups? Or did you actually calculate them?
Another simply amazing project. Your projects would make a great series in either of the n scale magazines. (Or blow the minds of those in the other scales if a certain magazine would run even a few photos of just one of your projects.)
Thanks gang. Chaya - I usually make scale drawings of the structures that I'm building. I work off of photographs, and try to to get the drawings/dimensions as close to 'right' as I can. So I guess to answer your question, I 'eyeball' it with a ruler .
Dave, those hoppers are turning out great!! Do you have a thread with other pictures of your layout, or are you just starting and this is your first project for the M&ET layout?