Mill Creek HOn30

[Chris333]

Oh I don't know if I prefer one more, but I'd guess Z is too small and O is too big 

I could have scaled the photo to any scale. The other "mine" was made from photos as well, let me dig them up.

[Chris333]

Real photo someone sent me:


Looks like the mainline went right through it so I didn't model that. I rotated it and scaled to HO and:


This one has a ways to go yet.

[Dave V]

Way cool.

Loving the locomotives too.

[Chris333]

Look squirrel !!   

On the Facebooks I belong to a local railfan group. They were recently talking about the B&O branch that started at the end of my street. Before it was the B&O it was built as the narrow gauge Painesville & Youngstown Railroad. They were talking about a branch off of the narrow gauge to a quarry located in an area called Windsor Mills. A quick search found a mill and a quarry. The branch to the mill was also narrow gauge and may have been abandoned before the main branch was standard gauged by the B&O.

The quarry:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52810867@N05/4871034309

and the mill:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52810867@N05/4871038793

Just look at that mill! I need to model it and that quarry isn't to shabby either. Both are compact. I have already put the mill into AutoCAD and made a HO scale outline. Now I just need to figure out where to put them.

No not doing this right away. I'll get the layout going first, but man look at that mill. For what it's worth the Mann's Creek RR also had a local grist mill and in fact a whole new mill was built in that area:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9793276,-80.9464932,3a,75y,293.97h,89.24t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOKxF2FA1fhnzwJbkaaPzbXle5nWfXc7cJbnuo_!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOKxF2FA1fhnzwJbkaaPzbXle5nWfXc7cJbnuo_%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya102.357765-ro-0-fo100!7i13824!8i3652
The narrow gauge once ran right behind the mill.

[Dave V]

That's the joy of freelancing...  You can incorporate all the good bits.  It's all tied together with a very prototypical and plausible theme, so I'd say go for it.

[Chris333]

 



I imagine the water wheel or turbine would be on the inside to protect it from the winter. The bottom rear of the building would be stone. Just like this local mill (in Mill Creek park)
https://youngstownlive.com/wp-content/uploads/Mill-Fall1-cropped.jpg

[Tom L]

Interesting bell on the roof. Wonder what that was for?

Tom L.
Wellington CO

[Chris333]

I have no idea about the bell.

I got this far today, still lots to do. I scrunched up the building a little bit to make the foot print smaller.

[Chris333]

One more thing. I see the old boiler sitting there and the left side of the building looks like it was patched up. Like they just replaced the boiler that would be under the large smoke stack. So what is a boiler doing inside a water powered mill? I mean it was right next to the water.

Edit:  Ha this mill says it had a boiler to power the mill when the water was low:
http://pinecreekgristmill.com/restoration_docs/Mill%20visit-1.pdf

Problem solved 

[DKS]

I have no idea about the bell.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-CAL-SCALE-STD-BRACKET-BELL-ROPE-PULL-TYPE-BE-281-NEW/123606149948 ?

[Chris333]

Oh I have a few HO bells laying around, just have no idea why it was on the roof of the mill.

[Cajonpassfan]

Well, lots of industries of that era had steam whistles to announce beginning and end of shift and meal breaks. Since the boiler here was just for backup, perhaps the bell served a similar function?
Nice structure, great progress!
Otto K.

[Chris333]

Now we need to decide color. The snow is white and the siding looks darker than that. The windows are probably white with painted trim.

I'm thinking white windows, a cream colored walls, and a light brown trim.

[nuno81291]

That’s some pretty interesting and extreme weathering on the proto. Are you going to do that at all? It looks a lot like chipped paint over a natural patina to me. Looks like some new replaced pieces of siding look quite bright next to the second floor door. Watching with interest!

[VonRyan]

Well some layouts are in the corner and some are on a shelf. Some layouts are under other layouts. One layout just became a shelf for other layout parts. Some layouts get shipped out and end up flocked with grass    The small one I tore the mine from will get tossed out after I pluck all the trees.

Once DKS gets his stuff out of my trailer, I'll drive out the to the Schmuck Layout Emporium and help you make some space. I assume ME rail is the accepted currency? The recent acquisition of another Toma coach kit has made me want to start modeling the Schull & Skibbereen, and improve upon the things I learned from my last layout.