Large Scale Central

T&D Feeds 10 years and counting

That sounds much more affordable and easier than what I was thinking…

I might even have some red LEDs left over from broken Christmas lights but they are pretty big. A SMD would probably be easier.

And more prototypical. :grinning:
Normally, you wouldn’t see the chicks for sale until you are up close. From 20’ away all you see is a “box” with a red glow. Cardboard lined pens or makeshift boxes are typical with 2’ high sides as drafts can kill them. Oh and you hear them long before you see them. hint.

There was just enough to cut out the pieces required for both sides of the building.
Here’s one side’s progress.

I’m surely not going to be building a 2’ SQ building out of this stuff. Hats off to you Rick and Ray. I don’t hardly have the patience to do these. I’m slowly figuring out how deep to make the embossing but I’m ending up going over everything twice.

One side officially done now. I might start working on the other side today. It actually didn’t take that long it’s just tedious.

I ended up using a diamond scriber to emboss the grooves along with a flat bladed screwdriver for the small sections.

Once I get both sections done, I can glue them up to the building base and start assembly of the angled windows. I also just realized that the windows have a few glass shelves off them, with a variety of junk.

I have just enough leftovers to do the other wall section!

What’s the best way to glue acrylic to acrylic and/ acrylic to styrene? I’m going to stick with acrylic windows and will need to both glue acrylic “windows” to the styrene window frame and acrylic to acrylic for the shelves.

Please help me. I have posted on this site several times at with various posts the embedded images do not come down nor do they reload. I this posting the 1st image did not come down, the 2 second image (map) loaded, then no images downloaded until Jim’s 33/84 Dec 2019 posting and there after. Are the images I see as missing because of time and thereby lost to the cloud, am I doing something wrong? i really would like to understand.

I am a prime member and am signed on when this problem occurs.

Mike Paterson

The problems are not with my posts but with those of others.

Mike:

You are not alone. This topic straddles the time when the site was updated. That update broke images. So the images you are wondering about are those from the old version of the site.

Each person would have to update each image in each old post to fix them. Sometimes Bob can do it in bulk, if asked nicely and the wind is with him.

Thanks Jim, I was concerned that I was as usual not following protocol or instructions.

Yes there’s a lot of old broken links at the beginning of this thread. I haven’t taken the time to go back and edit them all. If you have a particular post your wondering about I can go in and edit them. Just not a high priority at the moment and honestly I wasn’t even sure if there was interest.

So over spring break I was cleaning up the garage and trying to organize stuff. ( Side note, anyone want a 16mm movie projector…) One of the things that I keep tripping over is some sections of 8" sewer pipe. I fired up the table saw and made a whole bunch of plastic dust cutting these into 4 sections of 45’ tall silos.
Remember the white pipes from a while back that I used for the other silos?


Cut and gluing caps on.

These are the “new silos” that got added later.

And just like the prototype I’m going to have to modify and rebuild the elevator leg.
Original elevator leg and silos.



The new leg is probably 10 or 12’ taller and has a peaked roof. And the pipes leading to the old silos are now covered in a box shape.

Newer elevator leg.

What interesting to me is these new silos look to be built on a square foundation. Or maybe that’s a shadow in one of the photos.

There’s also an additional square silo between the elevator leg and the silos that I’m trying to figure out. I’m guessing these new silos are feed by a horizontal belt running along top. There’s some interesting roof details as well like the vent and something else I can’t quite make the shape of.

I also have been tempted to add lights to the exterior of the building before as I’ve seen lights on the unloading shed and it looks like more lights got added to these new silos. So now I’m pretty convinced I need to have some working lights on this part of the project as well (and as a bonus the lights face the right way to see them from the house)

This is definitely not in the Ray or Rick detailed interior stage yet nor do I think I can get it up to that level of craftsmanship, but it’s a start.

I don’t have much information about the interior of the feed store area other than the checkout counter was to the right, along with my sister and her friend’s recollection that the baby chicks were in the far back and the dog and bird food was on the back left wall. They both said independently that they could remember as 8, 9 yld girls seeing over the shelves.

So I pulled out some scraps of styrene and got building.

There’s definitely some more work to do adding a bunch of clutter on the shelves and wall space per the one prototype photo of the interior… But it’s a start.

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Might be getting a little bit overkill with the idea of lighting structures…

This was my very first lighting project. The interior of the Woodinville MOW shack that occupies the staging yard.

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And now the almost complete lighting of the interior of T-D Feeds. I have a few more to install (might use up all the ones I have on hand :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:).

Far away on the layout, up close and then the workshop lights. I figure once everything is buttoned up the lights will still be visible in the daylight if turned on with all the dark shadows of the store.

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Then a string of exterior lights under the front awning of 0603smd. There’s a handful of exterior lights in other parts of the structure but I think I should also end up lighting up the unloading shed area when I get to that as well.

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There is no way that I’m embossing this stuff for a huge 2 story building.

I’m getting burned out just doing a little every evening. 3 more sections. I might try and power through 1 more small end cap tonight. I’m either not doing it the right way or something but it’s tedious and takes a heavy scribe…

It’s growing…

Two more of the taller silos are waiting for paint and then I can take all 6 of these silos and start connecting them to the elevator leg ( that now needs the prototypical extension added).

Also some steps got made by the duck under. Waiting until my roof project gets done before I put in a request for free wood chips. I like the free part, but you never know when they will be delivered. The steps need a wheelbarrow or two more of rock to fill everything in.

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Looks like good progress!!!

It’s slowly coming together. Kinda lost motivation the entire month of May to work on stuff so now I’m trying to catch back up. We have school until June 22nd this year. Between the late ending of school and reroofing the house I figured I would get a head start on some of the summer projects.

And I’m trying to do projects on the cheap as well. Those concrete blocks are all free finds.

I’m learning lessons for next time around… And that would be prep the area wherever the layout is going first. I figure we will be in this house at least until I retire in 20+ years so hopefully I won’t forget.

I’m really surprised Rooster didn’t report that…

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One of my major stumbling blocks was how to properly support the unloading shed. One side was backed up to a fully covered wall, but the opposite side was more open.

After experimenting with brass 1/4" tube for supports for the square silos, I figured what the heck, let’s try the same thing for the unloading shed.

And here’s the results.

At eye level

Standing on a bench.

​​​​​​​Time will tell if I need a step to reach up and uncouple/couple cars but I’m guessing I might need on. Have to start operating to solve those types of problems.

While I’m not a fan of Kadee uncoupling magnets, the Timesaver at NELSTS used them, and after a bit of practice to get the technique down , they worked very well.

I use a long screwdriver and oh wait I think that it’s too tall to reach and do it that way, uncoupling magnets or RailPro with electric couplers on your locomotives