The Carolina Sandhills Lines in HO Scale

[davefoxx]

I know, but this is a weird ~40’ arc in an unusual place.  That said, my impatience in painting the concrete caused me to pull a little of the seam putty with the masking tape.  Potholes! 😜

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[davefoxx]

I’m much happier with this back corner of town.  Sure, it needs more detail painting and some weathering, but the worst part (scabbing on to the street and sidewalk) is behind me.







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[John]

you can always put some jersey barriers there when I send them up .. and throw some used tires and other crap on the backside

[cv_acr]

Or add in some additional cracks into the street surface that the existing seam will get lost in, and a bit of lane weathering from tire tracks to blend everything will probably make it not very noticeable.

[davefoxx]

I finally picked up and worked on the layout.  We were on vacation on the Outer Banks for two weeks, but I haven’t even hardly run trains in the two weeks that we’ve been back until a few days ago.  Today, I ballasted two tracks and finally finished this end of the yard.



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[davefoxx]

I’m still trying to figure out what the purpose for the siding north of Aberdeen will be.  Originally, I was going to transplant a metal dealer from the proto-Fayetteville, but I’m really short on space to fit a gantry crane.  Anyhow, I know I’ll need more square footage for whatever this turns out to be, so I carved out a chunk of the embankment and installed a retaining wall.  The wall is built out of two slabs of foam that I cut from some scrap 2” foam.  Ignore the finish on the wall, as I merely did some experimentation before smearing lightweight spackling around it, which I did this morning.  Kudzu will hide the sins!  The unpainted 3D printed end-of-track bumper is courtesy of @John.  Also, indistinguishable in the photo is that I used cork roadbed scraps and lightweight spackling, which has already been painted with my sandy color, to build up the lot around the track.



Oh, and I installed two more display cabinets (the ones on top) to increase storage that is much more convenient than packing/unpacking the rolling stocks’ boxes.  This will also make era changes a breeze.



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[packers#1]

What sort of industries do you want to model DFF, and what kind of cars? You’ve got plenty of room for a scaled down concrete plant. Check out this one served by the CPDR by my house. Just down the street from it to is a small two track plastics transload next to an asphalt plant, which is another option.

National Cement
https://maps.app.goo.gl/j5SgKHrDmMdysaJu7?g_st=ic

[John]

What sort of industries do you want to model DFF, and what kind of cars? You’ve got plenty of room for a scaled down concrete plant. Check out this one served by the CPDR by my house. Just down the street from it to is a small two track plastics transload next to an asphalt plant, which is another option.

National Cement
https://maps.app.goo.gl/j5SgKHrDmMdysaJu7?g_st=ic

We could whip this one up in a print !!

[davefoxx]

What sort of industries do you want to model DFF, and what kind of cars? You’ve got plenty of room for a scaled down concrete plant. Check out this one served by the CPDR by my house. Just down the street from it to is a small two track plastics transload next to an asphalt plant, which is another option.

National Cement
https://maps.app.goo.gl/j5SgKHrDmMdysaJu7?g_st=ic

I’m not sure yet.  Concrete plant is a good idea.  Cars that I wouldn’t mind finding a destination other than just routing up the A&BP or the A&R in interchange would be grain cars, wood chip cars, flat cars, or gons.

The A&R does seem to do something with covered hoppers in this area.  This is almost exactly the spot I’m modeling on the layout.  Just on the other side of the A&R’s mainline in Aberdeen.  What is it?





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[davefoxx]

We could whip this one up in a print !!

Haha!  Nice!  I might take you up on that.  We’ll see.  Look at my prior post first before we go there, though.

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[davefoxx]

Here’s some of the customers on the A&R. 



The pictures of a siding in Aberdeen on this page above show Sterling Transport, according to a small sign near the street.  The A&R website says they are a bulk commodities transport.

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[John]

The sign says its a "Trans" load facility -- so it could be almost anything . which is actually good .. it allows you to dump just about any cars in there

The cars on the left appear to be pressure aid -- so think cement or pellets .. but judging from the trailers on the left , those are bulk cement trailers from the looks of it ..  the cars on the right side - could be anything .. but if you look real close around the track - there are piles of a whitish commodity -- maybe sand, salt?   The pick up truck says dry bulk .. so there is a clue ..

I also see a truck scale in there .. k .. I have the files for the un-loader -- so that could be printed ..  the little office trailer  you could scratch --

You could also call them    https://www.bizapedia.com/nc/sterling-dry-bulk-llc.html

[High Hood]

A plastics hopper transload could work. Here in town trucks just pull up to the cars and unload them.

[John]

That office seems to be a shipping container with siding on it .. also a port a potty on the right of the shed

[packers#1]

I’m not sure yet.  Concrete plant is a good idea.  Cars that I wouldn’t mind finding a destination other than just routing up the A&BP or the A&R in interchange would be grain cars, wood chip cars, flat cars, or gons.

The A&R does seem to do something with covered hoppers in this area.  This is almost exactly the spot I’m modeling on the layout.  Just on the other side of the A&R’s mainline in Aberdeen.  What is it?





DFF

Probably some sort of feed transload; since it’s a conveyor it’s some type of grain. Plastic pellets are moved pneumatically because A) it’s easier and B) there’s less contamination that way. You don’t want a bunch of dirt in your extruded barrel…ask me how I know…