07-18-2015, 07:23 PM
I visited a concrete batching plant back in '85 during my apprenticeship and took some photos. Cant say if I still have them. 
The plant at one time had been rail served but by then everything was arriving and departing by various types of trucks.
The plant back then was run by Pioneer so everything was either green or white including all the trucks, and I do remember that the stairs up to the top of the cement silo were covered in caked on cement powder. The plant is still operating today, but under a different ownership, it is on a fairly compact site between the rail lines and a major Melbourne roadway, so let me know if you would like some photos.
Also of interest in another part of Melbourne is a rail to truck cement transfer operation which I have always thought would make for an interesting modelling oportunity.
Mark
The plant at one time had been rail served but by then everything was arriving and departing by various types of trucks.
The plant back then was run by Pioneer so everything was either green or white including all the trucks, and I do remember that the stairs up to the top of the cement silo were covered in caked on cement powder. The plant is still operating today, but under a different ownership, it is on a fairly compact site between the rail lines and a major Melbourne roadway, so let me know if you would like some photos.
Also of interest in another part of Melbourne is a rail to truck cement transfer operation which I have always thought would make for an interesting modelling oportunity.
Mark
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