Building "Clearwater Industries"

[MountainMan]

That is very impressive!

[clearwater]

Hi

thank you for encouraging me!

The biggest hunk of the layout was Trujillo. It has a relatively complex composition in the structure.
Here is the loading dock in google street view:
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I tried to catch up with it - here ist my interpretation of the building:

regards Thomas

basement:


baseplate closed:


building the walls:


first mock up:




with oil tanks:






walls colored:


roof finished with air conditions:


loading dock:


yard concreted:


finish:

[faraway]

That is a very interesting building with lots of unique shaped walls. Most are using styrene for structures like that. It is easy to cut and the solvent based glue sets very fast. What made you using a very different approach and what tools to you use? I guess at least a buzz saw for clean and easy cuts?

[clearwater]

That is a very interesting building with lots of unique shaped walls.
Most are using styrene for structures like that. It is easy to cut and the solvent based glue sets very fast.
What made you using a very different approach and what tools to you use?
I guess at least a buzz saw for clean and easy cuts?

Hallo Reinhard,

I built it from 3mm cardboard, paperboard, some rests of small cables, balsa, brass tubes, using
white woodglue, CA, a jigsaw and a sharp scalpel for cutting and sawing - like Sentry Industries.
Only difference: I needed a pine tree rod for the basement !

regards Thomas

[Southern Tuxedo]

Thomas,

Your buildings are incredible and you are obviously very talented. The back of your layout looks as good as the front or is it the front that looks as good as the back…well let’s just say that it looks great all the way around.

The material that you are using for the walls of your structures looks a lot like a material that we have here in the US called Masonite. It is hardboard made out of wood fibers that are glued and compressed together with heat and lots of pressure. Does this sound like the same material that you are using?

Mark

[clearwater]

Thomas,

Your buildings are incredible and you are obviously very talented. The back of your layout looks as good as the front or is it the front that looks as good as the back…well let’s just say that it looks great all the way around.

The material that you are using for the walls of your structures looks a lot like a material that we have here in the US called Masonite. It is hardboard made out of wood fibers that are glued and compressed together with heat and lots of pressure. Does this sound like the same material that you are using?

Mark

Hi Mark,

you´re right, I asked "Leo": <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&sectHdr=on&spellToler=&search=masonite">http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=d ... h=masonite</a><!-- m -->

masonite is translated as "Hartfaserplatte" which is the word for the material in Germany.
Why did I write "cardboard"? Do´nt know, I thought this was the right vocabualry.
I do apologize for any inconvenience and the lack in my English vocabulary pool .

Thomas

[alcanman]

Thanks for sharing your structure contruction, Thomas

Very unusual that you use Masonite. Here in the UK it's usually called 'Hardboard'. I guess it gives a very rigid structure.

I really like those buildings.


regards,

Mal

[Steve Williams]

Thomas,

Your buildings are incredible and you are obviously very talented. The back of your layout looks as good as the front or is it the front that looks as good as the back…well let’s just say that it looks great all the way around.

The material that you are using for the walls of your structures looks a lot like a material that we have here in the US called Masonite. It is hardboard made out of wood fibers that are glued and compressed together with heat and lots of pressure. Does this sound like the same material that you are using?

Mark

Hi Mark,

you´re right, I asked "Leo": <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&sectHdr=on&spellToler=&search=masonite">http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=d ... h=masonite</a><!-- m -->

masonite is translated as "Hartfaserplatte" which is the word for the material in Germany.
Why did I write "cardboard"? Do´nt know, I thought this was the right vocabualry.
I do apologize for any inconvenience and the lack in my English vocabulary pool .

Thomas

Thomas,
You may simply have confused cardboard with hardboard, which is what we call it in the UK.

[Steve Williams]

Looks like Mal just beat me to it

[Tyson Rayles]

[sailormatlac]

Wow! I particularly like the invisble side. You did awonderful job on this building. The proof one can find a way out with common materials.

Matt

[Southern Tuxedo]

Here in the States, Masonite is a brand name for hardboard. Technically it's HDF or high density fiberboard. But all that said, most people call it Masonite, although this may be a regional thing.

I have to agree that it is a creative use for it and I would never have thought to use it for structures. The stuff is dirt cheep too, about $10.00 for a 1/8" thick by 4' x 8' sheet (3mm thick by 1220 x 2440mm).

Mark

[clearwater]

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

[fast car]

Thomas,

First time I have seen your layout. WOW very nice work. The detailing is first rate. The roof work is very similar to Lance Mindheims and shows a lot of creativity. Looking forward to seeing more photos.

Larry

[shortliner]

Thomas - another great industry - I have to ask - what did you use to make the tyre (tire?) piles?