The build is DONE! My wife helped me with the vinyl cutter and the silos look awesome!
I wanted to replicate these ones at a cement plant a few towns over.
They painted them to resemble Nauset Lighthouse that stands on the National Seashore in Eastham MA. It is the one that is on the Cape Cod Potato chip bag.
Here are mine that we will store cranberries in.
I think the building looks great and it will be a terrific addition to the RR.
That’s cool. Never seen a faux window on an elevator. That’s a cool detail. You done good.
Funny you mention cranberries. I need to get a boat or fix my pontoon boat. I discovered last year the remnants of a cranberry operation that someone attempted at some point in the past. While fishing I found this odd flooded foliage with big red berries. After doing my research they are cranberries. Now wild and mostly forgotten. I want to harvest some.
Great looking silos, Todd. You replicated the originals very well. The fake windows are a nice touch on both accounts.
Eric I used E6000?on the detail pieces on this years MIK
Huh…well, we will have to try it again. I swore it ate away our foam!
Eric
There are different ways to harvest cranberries. You can do it dry by hand or with a scoop or the modern way is to flood the bog and use machinery to shake the vines and the berries float to be collected. This all happens in the Fall. We used to have loads of bogs in my area but they are slowly being converted back into the wild due to the taxes on the land being more than the crop from that acreage is worth. Finding help that wants to work a tough dirty job is also a problem.
The country has become soft and lazy, farming and trade work has become hard to hire people for it, the trades can really pay well but kids now don’t want to work , they want video game jobs
I am so pleased with how this building came out and it is going to be a terrific addition to the RR. The 3D printed windows and doors really make it. I hope they hold up to the elements. They are primed and painted with plexi put in for glass. I ran out of time to stick them with E6000 so I had to use hot glue. I will keep an eye out if they start to fall out.
Another first on this build was buying a roll of 36 gauge aluminum and running it through the crimper. I like this look and since Taylor Tin is out of business, for now, I will use it on another building since I only used about 1/3 of the roll. Another first was using metal from our old and worn out real estate signs for the roof. The corrugated sheets were glued on to them with E6000.
The Ocean Spray decal I bought on line. The billboard sign on the end was cut from a juice container. I glued it to a piece of plastic and sprayed a clear coat over it. Hopefully it will last a few seasons before fading.
I don’t know how many hours I have into this build but it took longer than expected of course. I spent more on this build than probably any other. I bought the roll of aluminum, the OS decal, a couple of dowels for the piping and 2 plumbing end caps for the top of the silos. Approximate cost is $23. I also found the Ocean Spray car being sold by a local guy for $30 but that is more of an accessory than an actual part of the build.
I almost forgot to mention that the silos are removable to make this big building easier to move.
That really looks great Todd 
Thanks Jon. I’m real happy with how this turned out.
You should be. I am damned impressed. It’s a nice building. . .period. But given the budget and time constraint it is brilliant. I am in awe.
As for carnberries. . .I am excited. We have a couple shallow “chain” lakes where I spend a great deal of time fishing. While fishing Thompson lake in the spring last year I discovered a weird red berry that floated to the surface when I hit it with an oar. After a bit of googling and asking cranberry growers and the local ag extension office it turns out they are cranberries. A left over from someone’s past attempt at farming them. Long abandon what remains is a wild cranberry patch. I plan to exploit it.
Thank you. It was a photo finish. 
Next Fall when the cranberries ripen do harvest some. It does take a lot to make anything but there are lots of things you can do. Cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving would probably be the easiest to make.
That’s the plan Todd. I want to make homemade locally harvested cranberry sauce.
Todd, you’ve knocked this one out of the park. Seeing it on the layout really brings it to life. It was hard to tell how the proportions would work out on the bench, but seeing it with the box car shows the proportions are spot on. Well done.
Todd,
I will be sharing this with O.D. as she continues to transform her old school project into a lineside industry!
Eric
Thank you Dan. There was a lot of back and forth with the planning, the dimensions, combining elements from the new and old to convey the idea, adding a door here instead of there, adding the double loading dock doors and choosing the colors was tough but it all came together in the end.
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Todd,
I will be sharing this with O.D. as she continues to transform her old school project into a lineside industry!
Eric
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Thanks Eric. I am happy to share and inspire.
