Large Scale Central

EVERY RR NEEDS A FARM

General Discussion
#1

So I added one to the Shasta Pacific. Hi all, I added a farm scene (building flats) to the outskirts of the Humboldt Yards. Actually a Dairy and Feed lot, this will allow for spotting milk cars, feed cars, and cattle cars, kind of a 3 for 1 industry. A few pictures. The feed silo, the dairy barn and milk house, and the corrals and loading chute beyond.

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Just to the right of the corral and loading chute will be the slaughter house/meat packing plant. They will share the common corral and add a fourth car spotting location to the mix.

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One of the cattle cars used to “test fit” the loading chute.

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Another view looking across the yards.

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Thanks for taking a look.
Rick

#2

Nice. Different and good looking barn.

#3

Looking good That is a nice setup.
I like that tin roof.
Happy RRing
Todd

#4

I agree, RR’s do need farms. Especially outdoor RR’S.
Nice job and well thought out plan.
Ralph

#5

Nicely done… :slight_smile:

#6

Very nice, Rick, as is usual for you. Is that metal roof some more of the swimming pool material?

S

#7

Well done!

#8

Looks good.

#9

Very nice. I love how the raised bench work allows low-angle shots and forces the perspective of the 1:1 background.

#10

Great little scene!
My wife has been after me to build a model of our barn for the layout.
Might have to get started…:slight_smile:

#11

Great looking farm, Rick.

-Kevin.

#12

Like your idea… Looks great and real…

#13

That looks good and you gave me some ideas about some additional buildings I can make to mine as it developes.

#14

That looks great Rick!

#15

Love the raised trackwork and the depth perspective you have with the real background. Thanks for sharing !

#16

Swell idea Rick! Very nice. You need a “pile” though. I’ll send you a car load next time the politicians come to town! :slight_smile: :smiley:

#17

If you don’t have time to wait for the politicians, hamster food uses the same raw material - alfalfa. Use a water-based dark brown stain, and the water will cause the alfalfa pellets to break up in a most realistic way. An example is below. It is OO scale, but I have used the same technique to “weather” the floor of an LGB stock car.

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/davemeashey/Manure.jpg)

Best of luck, David Meashey

#18

I’ve enjoyed a lot of the ideas in this thread, but what I keep coming back to is the title …

… to which E-I-E-I-O seems to be the only appropriate response!

Seriously, some really great ideas! I particularly like that you get a whole farm out of a relatively shallow barn, and an unfinished corral … kind of splitting the difference between a flat and a full building.

Matthew (OV)

#19

Hi all,

Thanks for all the positive comments, the crew around here is pleased with the outcome as well.

Steve,
Yes, some more of the old “Dough Boy Pool” siding metal. I’ll probably run out of it one of these days.

Richard,
Uhhh, no thanks. I live in California, we have more than enough of that product produced locally, as you well know :slight_smile:

Dave,
That’s a really, uhhh, neat, uhhh different, uhhh unusual car load :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
I think I will stick with the feed, milk, and stock cars :wink: :slight_smile:

Matt,
E I E I O, That’s cute and your right it does fit :slight_smile:
The use of the (3-D) flats gives a little more visual interest and a little depth for the camera to work with in the angle views.
Eventually the whole length of the Humboldt Yards will be backed with the building flats.

Thanks all for your interest and fun comments.
Rick

#20

Rick;

I know it is hard to believe, but when I worked for N&W RY, there actually was a tariff in the tariff rating books for manure. One of my coworkers, who had once worked in the tariffs department, told me that there were carloads of horse manure hauled from the horse farms in Kentucky to fertalizer factories in other states. Due to the stiff grades along the route, sometimes the hard-working diesels could throw carbon sparks into the manure and cause smoldering fires. That is something even I would not want to model, but it does reinforce the expression “There’s a prototype for anything.”

Best,
David Meashey