Building "Clearwater Industries"

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Here in the States, Masonite is a brand name for hardboard. Technically it's HDF or high density fiberboard....
Mark

O.K. let´s make an agreement. I learned: "Masonite" is a brand name which is often used as a
substitute for the material "hardboard". In future I will talk about "hardboard". I hope that fits it!

Going on - Clearwater Industries is not finished yet (when in hell is a layout finished ??) but here
I left the spurs of Lance Mindheim and went my own ways thru Miami. I needed a company and
looked for a tire dealer and found "Martino Tire Corp" in Miami which matched my idea of a third
location for rail operations.

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But I did want it to have my name: "Lindworm Tyres" - run by an English man as you can see by the "y"
Another difference to the prototype: Lindwom Tyres has many truck customers - the tires are bigger and the
building has to consider it in the size of the gateways.

The assembly went the way you sholud be familiar with by now:

I took some hardboard, paperboard, some rests of small cables, balsa, brass tubes, pine rod, using
white woodglue, CA, a jigsaw and a sharp scalpel for cutting and sawing.......



The gondola is part of the operating concept:
The dealer receives new Tires in a boxcar (right backside of the building) and
removes wornout tires, rims and junk by using gondolas (left backside of the building).
For this I had to build piles of tires to fit my gondolas first!

















The piles of old tires and the backyard are made to fit each other.
So I really store the load for the gondola at the building.
An empty gondola arrives, I take on pile of tires form the backyard and load the gondola
with it and the pile becomes smaller. I made a smaller "rest pile" of tires to lay
in front of the load. So you can´t see a square load but a big pile of tires and rims.













Operating the layout:
In front you can see the tops of the carcards while in the background a loco
gets another gondola with wornout tires from Lindworm:


regards Thomas