Freelance 2011

[lajry]

[...BUT there will be ALOT of selective compression!

Hi Andi, I did look a lot via Google and Bing at that area. Do you have any further details how and what you plan to compress? Do you know what all the pipes are about in the center of my photo? I did never see so much details on similar facilities. Might be that is due to the very favorable climate in the LA basin and they saved the money to build a protective building around all that pipes.
Your new posted photos match mine very good.
My idea of compression is:
a. The building behind the pickup on photo 1203 becomes the very left end in the corner of my layout. The very left building with the "G" will be cut off.
b. The smaller silos behind the truck on 1204 becomes reduced to one row only
c. The loading facility is next. It might become trimmed and the complex piping on top of it might be simplified
d. The large silos on 1208 may be reduced to two gray and two white only. Will see how much space is left. One white is required to have the "G" logo.
e. There will be two tracks running in front of that installation
The total length is about 1 meter / 40 inch. I am very concerned the installation would be to much like a toy. The new area in the center made of four small buildings has about the same length.

Haven't gotten that far yet about how I'm going to actually going to model General Mills. Maybe a combination of pix, silos & building flats against a back drop. My friend at the J says they have a track mobile but may make mine a GE 44 tonner or smaller switcher. He said there used to be a third track there but didn't know much about it. Probably worth another trip there!