I finished setting up the availible buildings in the space set aside for them.
Production Building with unload crane and pad.
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Raw wire, coil, 12 foot round stock arrives here. Some are unloaded by crane, others at rail dock.
The wire is sent to wire shop by truck. The Production buiding has several large machines on both floors that process the round stock to bearing races. Other machines stamp coils (Drop Hammer) into bearing retainer cages. Additional machines recieve wire from wire shop and cold heading them into bearing balls.
Wire Shop
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They recieve raw wire and anneals them to make ready to be made into bearings. Then the annealed wire goes through a cold drawing to ensure quality bearings. Finished wire sent to Production building.
I had alot of trouble dealing with this one building. At first I thought I built a white elephant with nothing useful to do. I designed the production building floor space for different functions of bearing making according to my research and learned I had no room to handle wire. So this building is still useful after all.
Boilerhouse and fuel unloading area.
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Aint done yet. Check back later.
I had trouble with this structure. I will post a updated picture after it is finished further.
Heat Shop with office building.
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They recieve races (Inner and outer bearing rings) and bearing balls here. They are hardened at very high tem
Very nice, can’t wait to see it when its seniced. (is that a word?) [:-^]
Anywho, nice job. keep us posted on your work.
Ty. Just about finishing up the roofs on those buildings and getting ready to do the last building.
After that one is finished, no more buildings just track, scenery and what not. Figured a few lathes, presses, electrostatic tubs, forge and hammer; anvils and lots of workforce makes a good factory.
I already worked out pretty much how the scenery and roads are going to be. But that backdrop is a bare wall 2 inches behind all of the structures and that is going to be a CHALLENGE.
Looks good. N scale, I presume?
Nope. HO scale.
So far the alloted space is about 2x10 feet.
I finished developing a switch list for the yardmaster (Represented by staging at this time) for this
Im soliticating advice as far as “Set out” “Hold” and “Pickups” boxes.
If a train came in at 4 am, set out a boxcar of widgets from faraway USA, the car card with that lading goes into the set out box with the other loads that have also been spotted.
Does that boxcar have to sit in the “Hold” box until the next operating session?
In fact, how do you confront a operating session that represent one day work for a train against one that is only a 8 hour work shift?
Im half tempted to simply mark a crew to switch the town, another crew to run two turns to the plant and call it a day when those three trains return.
What do you think?
For those who are not familiar with walthers modular parts… here is the completed foundation of the machine works.
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Several of the greyish bottom peices have been trimmed specifically to allow a correct fit for the lighter grey wall sections and thier adapters.
I allowed the entire foundation to glue itself to the deck… uh, glass table top overnight so that it will not move and lose the precision while it dries.
You will see several peices of plastic on the middle of the frame, those are flat peices specifically needed to ensure the foundation stays together during wall construction. I used a few spares out of the scrap box for this work.
I did safeweld for initial construction because after 30 seconds generally the bond is almost done and the peices will cure for about an hour. Sometimes I hybrid glue the peices with model master glue to ensure that the part will stay put.
I edited the first post of this thread to introduce new content that has changed since this thread was started.
Im in need of extra Walthers Decals labeled Paceline Industries that came with the Tannery Complex Modular Kit. (Or was it the Sterling Dairy one… I cannot remember) I did contact Walthers about this and they stated that they cannot “Break” a packaged retail kit just to send replacement or extra decals. If anyone has a extra set let me know either PM or Email.