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Thanks for the kind comments.
One of the industries in the rear has been designed for boxcar handling only (loading dock is at the left side). I am trying to have a more balanced freight car roster matching modern times better.
Two tanks and an unloading pipeline from the Cornerstone bakery kit are a perfect fit in the small space awaiting tank cars and covered hoppers.
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ps. 22 days left to start Freelance 2017-1 and the brain is empty as it could be :?: 2017 will be a quiet model railroading year. We will have a bunch of contractors in the condo redoing all rooms except my hobby room (the heater will be exchanged too in 2017). The timeframe might be April to June. We are currently negotiating with two general contractors and received the first tentative proposal last week. We will have to stay in a short time rented furnished flat for one or two month while the condo is done. My room is planned to be done in 2018. I will remove the layout, the room will be done and I start from scratch. That is the overall plan. Sounds somewhat scary to me. My wife is enthusiastic.....
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faraway Wrote:....My wife is enthusiastic.....
Wives are usually enthusiastic about such stuff, but when the project drags on beyond its projected finish date, you-know-who is going to have to listen to her complaints. Good luck!.
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The old freight shed in the left rear corner
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is going to be replaced by an industry designed to handle heavy freight and justifying the use of flatcars instead of boxcars.
Another nice example to use pressboard instead of styrene.
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I like the old freight shed. It will be saved in the basement for another old style layout.
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If that's some kind of steel industry it could be handling steel coils, plates, etc. Loads can come in coil cars, gondolas & flat cars. All could be unloaded using that crane.
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lajry Wrote:Reinhard
If that's some kind of steel industry it could be handling steel coils, plates, etc. Loads can come in coil cars, gondolas & flat cars. All could be unloaded using that crane.
Andy, that are my thoughts too. I have some coil cars from an older layout. Gondolas and flat cars are no problem. I love flatcars loaded with rusty iron plated. Looking forward to build some.
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Some slow progress
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The textures from Clever Models change a structure significant. Used are light concrete, light cinder and modern blue metal siding. Some very intense textures should be used with caution on larger panes. I light them up with Photoshop by about 25%. The originals print to dark on my LaserJet.
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Some details and some paint
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Started my first iron load.
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Even more rusty iron. Need to find some thin wire to strap the plates down.
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The iron works got the final touch. Two trailers with four axis are used to build a heavy freight cart with eight axis.
The crane "should" be glued down but it is easier to maintain if it is only put in place even it hoovers somewhat over the ground....
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Reinhard, great details! Very well done!
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That iron load looks rustier than the blade in my Stanley knife.
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Could both those steel plate loads be stacked on that one trailer? The rust on those plates looks very typical!
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The long scrap yard in the foreground made the layout quite crowded. The removal of two buildings without operational functions in the very center solved that problem. It will stay as wasteland. The old footprints of the buildings are not bad for a wasteland.
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A birds view after some cosmetic touches the next day. Not beautiful but at least unusual.
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Old structure footprints is quite common in older urban industrial areas and look closely you may even find footprints of old water towers used by those long gone industries and traces of their sidings if they was rail served.
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it's a great idea.
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