East Terminal & Newburgh

[Schraddel]

You may be right Wayne, but my English language is really not so good.

One of the Plastruct background buildings catched my eyes:

This is the kit for the sintering plant.
And my planning depending on the integration of the plant was:
- module #3 get a bend on the main line and a switch leading to a spur serving the plant. Further a highway overpass should work as somewhat scenic divider.
- module #4, here the sintering plat will be fixed
- module #5 a further warehouse and a steel and tube dealer


On the general plan the track aligment was done in a quick time.
Right the main and the siding (right) which makes here a bend.
Left the switch and thze spur leading to the plant. Here i used a Peco Streamline Code 83 #7 curve switch.
Main and siding are on cork bed while the spur is laid direct on the ground.


Module #3 ballasted and some shades of green added.


With module #3 ready to use some further test runs were made.


And here the first attempts to greening.

The highway overpass.

Here i made a first mock up out of cardboard; cereal cardboard of course.


It was not so the real Mc Coy. Here i have done the mistake to make the slopes too much too steep.


More cereal cardboard and a more smooth slope.


One the other side i realized how large the sintering plant will be when built up. So here i planned a retaining wall out of concrete.
And concrete will be the stuff the overpass will be made of.
The truck models will help to find the right proportions. Much modeled overpasses i have seen are really too narrow to allow a two lane traffic.
So the proper seize was found.

On the other end on module #1 there it was necessary to pave the track to have truck acess to the loading ramps.

I made an underlay of balsa wood and onto a layer of 0,5mm styrene sheet. The railheads are still about 0,5mm above the paving for electrical contact.
With an small ball nose cutter of 1,5mm diameter in a Proxxon (Dremel), guides by an ruler the straight seams were milled. The irregular cracks were milled free hand. Then all was painted somewhat concrete grey.
The seams were then painted by a black permanent marker.


In the background the acess to the warehouse with the moveable door was paved with tar. So it was painted all dull black.
Some more green was added by grass mats. These are from Polak, a Czech firm.


And at least some fun must be.

Lutz