04-18-2012, 08:40 PM
Mal;
Jack beat me to the Google views of Higgins but here's the Bing view http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=n9f3n58...orm=LMLTCC for some further details. Be sure and check out the Google street views of the facility too. I like the red/yellow band around the otherwise white shoebox structure.
The Higgins http://www.higginspremium.com/ facility is what I'd call a typical modern small feed mill structure and very similar ones can be found in many parts of the country. Here's an example of another relatively new one in the Liverpool, NY area: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=r5qq0j8...orm=LMLTCC. Quite a few of these feed mill facilities of various sizes in my area.
I have some small RIx grain bins and other details that I plan on using to build a representation of this structure and not necessarily a model of this particular facility. In fact, mine may end up just being generic feed mill, as there are a couple of industrial spurs close by that have or had such facilities on them.
I'll probably just have a compressed version of the shoebox structure with one rail door/dock, the mixing tower and a couple of grain bins laid out in a similar configuration to what you see in the views. Of course Walther's now has more appropriate bins available for such a facility.
What appealed to me about this was that it was a bit different and is "model railroad" size as it can only spot one or two covered hoppers at a time, but also has a couple of doors where box cars can be spotted for possibly shipping out the finished product. In older Bing views that I captured, you can see a covered hopper spotted by the facility:
Looks like in this view, they are still in the process of adding grain bins to the facility, so the Higgins facility is a relatively new structure.
Finally getting around tonight to re-laying the track to the new configuration and should have it running in a few hours for testing purposes. Assuming everything works out and I can stop myself from more "re-planning" then I'll start a new thread.
Jack beat me to the Google views of Higgins but here's the Bing view http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=n9f3n58...orm=LMLTCC for some further details. Be sure and check out the Google street views of the facility too. I like the red/yellow band around the otherwise white shoebox structure.
The Higgins http://www.higginspremium.com/ facility is what I'd call a typical modern small feed mill structure and very similar ones can be found in many parts of the country. Here's an example of another relatively new one in the Liverpool, NY area: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=r5qq0j8...orm=LMLTCC. Quite a few of these feed mill facilities of various sizes in my area.
I have some small RIx grain bins and other details that I plan on using to build a representation of this structure and not necessarily a model of this particular facility. In fact, mine may end up just being generic feed mill, as there are a couple of industrial spurs close by that have or had such facilities on them.
I'll probably just have a compressed version of the shoebox structure with one rail door/dock, the mixing tower and a couple of grain bins laid out in a similar configuration to what you see in the views. Of course Walther's now has more appropriate bins available for such a facility.
Finally getting around tonight to re-laying the track to the new configuration and should have it running in a few hours for testing purposes. Assuming everything works out and I can stop myself from more "re-planning" then I'll start a new thread.
Ed
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