I have been working on my corn syrup plant and thought I would share my idea and see what you think. Any ideas would be appreciated. Let me first say that space is limited so you may not see a lot of what might be on a bigger layout. I worked on putting together the M.A.C kit from pikestuff this weekend, since I thought this would be a good foundation for what i wanted. I am brainstorming on adding another building to it. My idea is to have corn trucked into the plant and corn syrup and by products shipped out. The USPS box is my stand in grain elevator that will load covered hoppers with dry bi-product. I can’t find the ADM grain elevator so I am considering using the Medusa Cement Company silos and shed as an option. I am looking at adding more tracks along the side for storage, trying to figure the best way to go. Definately will be adding more storage bins/silos.
Comments & Ideas appreciated
Here is a link to a photo of what I am working on:
Nice looking start for a small facility. There are several of these in western Minnesota and most could be built with Pikestuff parts and Walthers tank car loading platforms. The corn storage silos many times are not rail served - the product arrives via truck from the local growing area(many ethanol plants get their corm via the local economy as well). I just ordered that Pikestuff Milton A Corp complex as well(on sale at Walthers). It will be the basis for my ‘Ag Service’ complex - the modern replacement for the old ‘Feed & Seed’ elevator we used to see. Mine will mix feeds, get covered hoppers of potash for ‘fertz’ and tank cars of anhydrous ammonia.
I thought about an outside operation, however, I would think that corn syrup would need to be protected from the element, insects, etc. so I created an indoor operation.
That is actually (1) 4" PVC end cap and a 4" pvc pipe. The cap is sitting on top of the other piece. I saw a guy on line who used them for oil storage tanks for his oil refinery. I wasn’t sure if it would be too big or not.