01-03-2012, 09:18 PM
Hi Y'all. I've been gone quite some time and have just gotten back to the hobby. Sorry for the long absence. I had just lost interest for awhile. A visit from Steve, a trip to the lhs and a local club helped rejuvinate me. I had, oer the last year and a half or so, really let my area get cluttered! So before I could start any project (and I had a lot of them!) I had to straoghten my work areas up. There were times I'd go into the workshop and look around, turn around and find something else, anything else. So I've bit the bullet, I just cleared everything off the benches and sorted thru it. I have three work benches and all of them were cluttered to the point of uselessness. As I got to the bottom of one of them, I found the stringers for an unloading trestle I had started many years ago, along with drawings. So, I've started a new project, one which makes sense because it helps complete the one peninsula I had been working on (the yard and engine facility area). Back in the late 60's early 70's, I was enamored of a place called Tidewater sand stone and gravel. It was in Hackensack N.J. on the Hackensack River, and as its name implies, got its materials by barge, not rail. I built two of the structures about 25 years ago, from photos I had taken. They've been sitting on the layout where they were intended to be placed for many years now. Some of you may have noticed them in various photos I've posted in the past. I'm close to finishing the unloading trestle now. So I thought I'd post about it and ask some questions!
Here is the area I'm talking about. The building which has a bloody smear from when I must have moved it with a pricked finger was the main building on the lot. The prototype sat along a sidewalf alongside a street, and the three sided display window had crude wooden crates tilted up with different types of crushed stone on display for the passers by. The building obviously needs some work. I can not locate my photos and haven't seen them for over 15 years. There was a truck scale on the opposite side of the building (my model has a blank wall there, as it would not have ben visable on the layout it was built for). I have no idea how this should look, can anyone psot a photo? I assume there would be a window nearby to facilitate signing for loads. Oh, the paper strips represent the road entering the yard, and the cardboard the building sits on will be a paved area. I'm thinking to put the scale and window on the side you see.
Here is the rest of the area, you see the other building. I loved the fact it looked like they took a saws all to the roof over the garage area to increase clearance. The two pieces of white styrene you see will be concrete bins for holding product, like the prototype.
Here is the area I'm talking about. The building which has a bloody smear from when I must have moved it with a pricked finger was the main building on the lot. The prototype sat along a sidewalf alongside a street, and the three sided display window had crude wooden crates tilted up with different types of crushed stone on display for the passers by. The building obviously needs some work. I can not locate my photos and haven't seen them for over 15 years. There was a truck scale on the opposite side of the building (my model has a blank wall there, as it would not have ben visable on the layout it was built for). I have no idea how this should look, can anyone psot a photo? I assume there would be a window nearby to facilitate signing for loads. Oh, the paper strips represent the road entering the yard, and the cardboard the building sits on will be a paved area. I'm thinking to put the scale and window on the side you see.
Here is the rest of the area, you see the other building. I loved the fact it looked like they took a saws all to the roof over the garage area to increase clearance. The two pieces of white styrene you see will be concrete bins for holding product, like the prototype.