Tuesday, January 25, 2011

More on TXI....

I'm continuing on the Cement plant. I'm thinking that I might try to go ahead and scenic this area and try to finish it as my first sceniced spot on the layout. I'm about ready to get SOMETHING finished on this thing! Anyway, I've been working on scratchbuilding the loading zone of the cement plant.

Here's a photo of the prototype. I've tried to replicate it as best I could.










And here's a shot of the model. This is my first real attempt at a complicated scratch build. So far, it's been hard to find some of the industrial type parts but I'm learning. I've still got a lot of work to do to it but at least I

2 comments:

Matt said...

Great to see someone else using those corn storage silos for their cement factory.

Can you tell me which factory you are basing your model off of? (forgive me if I've missed it in your posts.)

I like the hopper loading area a lot.

Dennis Daniels said...

Thanks Matt. The plant is the old TXI plant just South of Artesia, MS. Most recently it was a Holcim plant but it closed about a year ago.

Been a slow layout week...

I've had a slow week working on the layout as I got involved in a few DCC installs on some locomotives. One thing I've learned is DC...