Elevators

[Beamish]

Please post your versions of the main rail industry for the prairies.


Here is mine.
Last night i spent some time building up one of the kits i got for Christmas. The Walthers Cornerstone Farmers Cooperative elevator.
I have not got it painted yet but that will come in the near future.




I've shown you mine now lets see yours.

[Trucklover]

Nice build!! Ive always had a little something for grain and always wanted to do something with the grain industry lol. I still want to set up a modern grain elevator and use all of the Walthers "New" Grain kits, but i dont see that happening anytime soon lol

Anyways, you have a great start, and i look forward to seeing pics of it painted

[doctorwayne]

I'm not modelling the prairies, but we still had grain elevators in southern Ontario.

The elevator at Elfrida is the same as your kit, although the warehouse building wasn't used here.




The one at South Cayuga, also from the same kit, will eventually be moved to another town on the second level of the layout, replaced here by a fruit-packing warehouse and cold storage.




The smaller structure, seen in the previous photo, is meant to represent a former coal dealer's elevator, converted to one for grain storage. The elevator housing has been move from what will be the track side of the structure to the road side, and there'll be an earthen ramp through the dump shed for trucks and wagons.
The field stone foundation is from an MDC Three-in-One kit, while the rest is constructed of Evergreen styrene siding and strips. The shingles are from Campbell.




Of course, GERN's Gibson Works, in Port Maitland, is built around Walthers concrete ADM grain elevator, with lots of scratchbuilt additions and modifications:


The outbuilding from Elfrida's elevator ended up at V.A. Wagner's lumber yard, in Lowbanks:


Wayne

[MasonJar]

Nicely done...!

I have one from Hamilton Model Works: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://home.cogeco.ca/~hmw/hmwkits.htm">http://home.cogeco.ca/~hmw/hmwkits.htm</a><!-- m --> --> click the Grain Elevator link. I have yet to build it, but you should see it appear on my modules as part of the Challenge

According to the web site (researched and written by owner Brian Martin, who is a great guy and answered lots of my questions! ), eastern elevators tended to have a more rectangular footprint, whereas the western (prairie) elevators were more square.

However, there are exceptions to every "rule" and I recall the ones in Berwick and Kemptville (eastern Ontario) both as being relatively square.

Andrew

[LynnB]

Sorry no grain on my layout, but I like the work others have done.

[Brakie]

A sneak peek of a on going project..I still need to do some finishing work on the silos(glue roof on etc) before its glued to the main building..

Land Star Grains is a kitbash of 2 Walthers N Scale ADM Grain Elevators.

[Ralph]

Hey! Lookin' good Brakie!

Ralph

[GS4]

Like Brakie's, this is a project in progress and it will have a small yard in front, capable of holding 24 covered hoppers

[Roger Hensley]

One more smaller elevator.