hoppers on stilts.

[u18b]

CSX Engine facility, Montgomery, Ala ca 1991

I really love this one for a layout because it is not too high and massive.
I also like the generic safety message:
SAFETY FIRST
Is a must.  It all depends on us.

It does have Montgomery Terminal, but that could be left off so that something like this could be used on any layout.

[nickelplate759]

CSX Engine facility, Montgomery, Ala ca 1991

Deluxe Innovations sold a kit that looked a lot like this.   https://www.walthers.com/instant-scenes-sand-loading-facility-446b68

[nkalanaga]

Carter:  I grew up in Pasco, WA, and have been up I-90 many times, but had still never heard of Pine City.  Had to look it up on Google Maps, as I was too lazy to get out the paper atlas.

[John]

I built this about 10 years ago - an old Bachman car IIRC - some styrene I beam .. and gray paint .. it's an easy $1 model and one evening project.  I'm sure any MTL product will be fantastic and what a great way to use up those car bodies that didn't quite pass QC

[sirenwerks]

There's the ACF at La Junta Mill in Laa Junta Colorado, with its curiously askew masonry:

[peteski]

There's the ACF at La Junta Mill in Laa Junta Colorado, with its curiously askew masonry:

That doesn't look very stable.  Looks like a strong gust of wind from the side could topple it over.

[wazzou]

I'm sure the steal posts go into a foundation and the hopper is welded to the support structure.

[peteski]

I'm sure the steal posts go into a foundation and the hopper is welded to the support structure.

I don't doubt that, but with no cross-braces on the ends, it still looks like it would be easily pushed over.  But since it is still standing, it must be sturdy enough.

[nickelplate759]

Interesting  - only 3 corners have the stepped masonry.  The other (furthest from the camera) just has a steel column.

I confess that I don't understand the function of the masonry in that structure at all.   I wonder if it was leftover from a previous structure.

[sirenwerks]

Interesting  - only 3 corners have the stepped masonry.  The other (furthest from the camera) just has a steel column.

I confess that I don't understand the function of the masonry in that structure at all.   I wonder if it was leftover from a previous structure.

I always surmised the original intent was to enclose the loading area.  They just ran out of block, maybe, while two masons of varying height and stamina worked from opposite ends?

[u18b]

I'm enjoying this thread.

[cv_acr]

A neat example of a covered hopper sand house posted in this thread over on the Model Railroad Hobbyist forum (pretty sure this site isn't like Kalmbach forums that bans links to other forums  ):

https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/prototype-examples-of-diesel-repair-facilities-when-storage-is-a-shared-roundhouse-12452409?pid=1333488486

The compressor house appears to be a cut down steam tender body as well.

[cfritschle]

Carter:  I grew up in Pasco, WA, and have been up I-90 many times, but had still never heard of Pine City.  Had to look it up on Google Maps, as I was too lazy to get out the paper atlas.

I grew up in Boise, and have lived my whole life in southwest Idaho, but never explored the Palouse area until about 20 years ago.  My stepson was attending U of I in Moscow in the early 2000s, so on Mom's Weekends I would drive around eastern Washington trying to find rail lines still in existence, as well as those that had been converted to trails.  (Golfing was the only activity planned for the dads on Mom's Weekends)

Rosalia was one of the more interesting towns I found, and as I was heading south from Rosalia on US 195 was impressed with the old Milwaukee Road Viaduct.



I was also amazed that old cable guardrails were still in use along a federal highway.



I turned around, and took the first road going west to see what else I might find. 



Eventually I "discovered" Pine City.  I think the grain elevator may be the only reason for that town to exist.   

Sorry for the thread drift.   

 

[wazzou]

Carter, you should of tried Tekoa and Oakesdale or ventured out of Lewiston and tracked the Camas Prairie.

[cfritschle]

Carter, you should of tried Tekoa and Oakesdale or ventured out of Lewiston and tracked the Camas Prairie.

Bryan,

I did get to Tekoa and Oakesdale on a different Mom's Weekend.  And, since I had a 33 year career with Idaho Department of Water Resources, I was able to spend a fair amount of time in Lewiston and on the Camas Prairie, starting in the late 1980s.