02-22-2010, 01:30 AM
Ken;
On the <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/c_buffalosprings.html">http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/c_buffalosprings.html</a><!-- m --> page, the building referred to as a warehouse would be the building where case whiskey was loaded. It was a rather simple affair as you can see - simply a couple of doors and a platform next to the rail. As I recall, the loading platform was slightly lower than the floor of a box car. Two - 50 foot cars could be spotted for loading at that building. Just to the right of that building would be the concrete apron where barrels were unloaded and beyond that, the Bonded warehouse.
About the best example of what the warehouse looked like can be found on this page:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/wildturkey/wildturkey1.html">http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/wildturke ... rkey1.html</a><!-- m -->
The one shown at the Wild Turkey distillery was larger, but otherwise pretty much the same style of building. Wood frame covered with corrugated siding - about 3 or 4 stories tall (very low stories at that). It's pretty much a standard style of warehouse building and there are numerous similar structures still standing and being used around here.
At Buffalo Springs, the narrow end of the warehouse was next to the track. Dried mash (or feed) was pumped or air-blown through an overhead pipe from the distillery building and a simple loading chute or pipe was mounted on the end of the warehouse where the feed car would be loaded. Very unusual compared to how it was handled at other distilleries.
I'm sorry to say that I don't know what that style of block was called, used on the grain elevator - more like brick than block. Each distillery had its own unique grain elevator and this one certainly falls under unique to model heading. Wish I could find a photo that showed the complete elevator!
Another of my favorites is the elevator that was at the Old Taylor Distillery. It still stands and I intend to make it out there one day very soon and photograph it. If the current owner will let me on the property!
This link: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/oldtaylor/oldtaylor1.html">http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/oldtaylor/oldtaylor1.html</a><!-- m --> has some photos that show most of the Old Taylor elevator: 5th photo down the left side - 7th and 10th photos on right side of the page.
As you can see from these photos, the main portion of the Old Taylor elevator had poured concrete walls and there were 4 small silos inside it. The upper portion or "head house" was corrugated metal with several windows. There were some interesting piping configurations and a dust collector too.
The unique feature of this elevator was the method used to unload the covered hoppers. A pan was placed between the rails under the hopper chutes and a vacuum hose attached to the pan actually "sucked" the grain up and into the silos as it was discharged from the cars. That vacuum pipe can be seen as the thin pipe extending away from the elevator in photo 10 on the right side of the page. The track had a capacity of about 5 cars and 2 or 3 would be spotted for unloading. As each was unloaded, it was moved toward the end of the track by a cable car-puller until the last car was over the unloading pan.
Was just looking at the ExactRail website and their new Southern 50 foot waffle side box car was a type often seen on the F&C, at least as long as the F&C operated to Georgetown. This would be suitable for either case whiskey or whiskey in barrel loading. The L&N 400,000 series Dual Air Pac cars were almost identical to these too. The ExactRail Gunderson 5200 cf box car in L&N (paint out the paper loading markings) - C&O and SP (sold out it says) would also be suitable cars.
All this discussion of the Buffalo Springs distillery has got me seriously considering modeling it myself. Although I'd call it something different and it would be on my "freelance" short line rather than the F&C. It's just a perfect model railroad size distillery with an interesting track arrangement. Mine might even be sort of a mixture of features from several of the distilleries I'm familiar with. These distilleries are just too interesting to not consider for a major industry on a short line, industrial or "big time" railroad. At least in MHO.
Hope my rambling about the Old Taylor grain elevator doesn't confuse you. I need to stick to the subject at hand!
Regards,
Ed
On the <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/c_buffalosprings.html">http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/c_buffalosprings.html</a><!-- m --> page, the building referred to as a warehouse would be the building where case whiskey was loaded. It was a rather simple affair as you can see - simply a couple of doors and a platform next to the rail. As I recall, the loading platform was slightly lower than the floor of a box car. Two - 50 foot cars could be spotted for loading at that building. Just to the right of that building would be the concrete apron where barrels were unloaded and beyond that, the Bonded warehouse.
About the best example of what the warehouse looked like can be found on this page:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/wildturkey/wildturkey1.html">http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/wildturke ... rkey1.html</a><!-- m -->
The one shown at the Wild Turkey distillery was larger, but otherwise pretty much the same style of building. Wood frame covered with corrugated siding - about 3 or 4 stories tall (very low stories at that). It's pretty much a standard style of warehouse building and there are numerous similar structures still standing and being used around here.
At Buffalo Springs, the narrow end of the warehouse was next to the track. Dried mash (or feed) was pumped or air-blown through an overhead pipe from the distillery building and a simple loading chute or pipe was mounted on the end of the warehouse where the feed car would be loaded. Very unusual compared to how it was handled at other distilleries.
I'm sorry to say that I don't know what that style of block was called, used on the grain elevator - more like brick than block. Each distillery had its own unique grain elevator and this one certainly falls under unique to model heading. Wish I could find a photo that showed the complete elevator!
Another of my favorites is the elevator that was at the Old Taylor Distillery. It still stands and I intend to make it out there one day very soon and photograph it. If the current owner will let me on the property!
This link: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/oldtaylor/oldtaylor1.html">http://www.bourbon-whiskey.de/oldtaylor/oldtaylor1.html</a><!-- m --> has some photos that show most of the Old Taylor elevator: 5th photo down the left side - 7th and 10th photos on right side of the page.
As you can see from these photos, the main portion of the Old Taylor elevator had poured concrete walls and there were 4 small silos inside it. The upper portion or "head house" was corrugated metal with several windows. There were some interesting piping configurations and a dust collector too.
The unique feature of this elevator was the method used to unload the covered hoppers. A pan was placed between the rails under the hopper chutes and a vacuum hose attached to the pan actually "sucked" the grain up and into the silos as it was discharged from the cars. That vacuum pipe can be seen as the thin pipe extending away from the elevator in photo 10 on the right side of the page. The track had a capacity of about 5 cars and 2 or 3 would be spotted for unloading. As each was unloaded, it was moved toward the end of the track by a cable car-puller until the last car was over the unloading pan.
Was just looking at the ExactRail website and their new Southern 50 foot waffle side box car was a type often seen on the F&C, at least as long as the F&C operated to Georgetown. This would be suitable for either case whiskey or whiskey in barrel loading. The L&N 400,000 series Dual Air Pac cars were almost identical to these too. The ExactRail Gunderson 5200 cf box car in L&N (paint out the paper loading markings) - C&O and SP (sold out it says) would also be suitable cars.
All this discussion of the Buffalo Springs distillery has got me seriously considering modeling it myself. Although I'd call it something different and it would be on my "freelance" short line rather than the F&C. It's just a perfect model railroad size distillery with an interesting track arrangement. Mine might even be sort of a mixture of features from several of the distilleries I'm familiar with. These distilleries are just too interesting to not consider for a major industry on a short line, industrial or "big time" railroad. At least in MHO.
Hope my rambling about the Old Taylor grain elevator doesn't confuse you. I need to stick to the subject at hand!
Regards,
Ed
Ed
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