Hedley Junction

[sailormatlac]

During the last club meeting, we discussed about reworking the grain elevator area. We had kept provision for a small yard lead extension and decided to finally built it. While checking old and recent pictures of the prototype, we decided to have a double-track unloading bay. For this purpose, we simplified the track work a little bit.

***EDIT*** While measuring the structure and its original 4 unloading bays, I found out it could unload 16 x 40' grain boxcars at the same time! It's going to take a lot of bocars to feed this monster!

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The grain elevator itself is quite huge and one of the biggest still in service in Canada. The original part was built circa 1905 and was similar in look and proportion to Parry Sound/Depot Harbor elevator on the shore of Superior Lake in Ontario (both built at the same time and at the ends of a connecting main line).

The actual elevator is 1 860 feet long (566 m) and is composed of 4 rows of bins. The original part, still standing, is 630 ft long (6'-4" in HO). It's this building I will be reproducing at scale with PVC 2" tubings (for vaccuum).



Matt