I spent the weekend making the beet pile,it’s HO scale,150ft long by 50ft wide and 18 feet high.I used sesame seeds to simulate the beets.I made the mound out of foam,and sprayed the mound with diluted white glue,then covered it with the seeds.after repeating the process several times I spray painted it off white.I also painted the Chooch Enterprise beet loads with the same paint.I am scratch building the beet piler from plans in the april 91 issue of Railmodel journal.I have alot to do before it is completed.i am quite satisfied with the final results of the beet pile.What do You think?
Looks Great! Keep at it. I am interested in seeing it “In context” so to speak.
Great scratch build , piler looks burly…looks like a piler. Although I hope mice in NH , don’t like the taste of sesame seeds. Great work !!!
Patrick
Beaufort,SC
Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}
Looks really good! I can remember seeing Beet piles in New Mexico and texas when I lived there in the mid 70’s. The Farmers only WI***heir piles would look so nice. I miss the Southwest. My next layout will have aspects of the West in it for sure!
Nice Job!
Chris
looks great…this is the first piler I have seen modeled…I’d say you did one hell of a job!
I think I speak for all of us when I say…Keep the pics coming.
That is nice work. I am glad you gave it good scale. Those piles are awsome, a little pile would look strange. The piler is interesting. I am interested in the detailing and weathering you choose.
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Nice model, like someone above said, I’ve never seen a beet piler modeled by anyone before. Great work, keep the photos coming.
Ron!
Excellent work!! I used to run the sugar beet trains for the Cal Northern and let me say that is the most realistic pile of sugar beets I have seen ever.
Rip
Looks Great
I just bought a Sugar Beet car modeled after the BAR cars, and was trying to figure out what to load them with.
Bob.
Thank’s Everyone for the feedback.The piler is still not finished,After i fini***his one I want to build a couple more as The Great western Rwy operated them in pairs in some instances.Also I want to have one loaded on a flat car which is how they were transported.and that would make a really interesing load.
The paint is a close match to one of the prototype’s they were also in a grey color,but this one I felt looked better.I havent weathered the piler yet.
When I find space for a layout I’ll have several more beet piles as they were located every few miles along the GW.In the meantime I’ll probably do a module or at least a diorama.
…I’ll watch out for mice.hehe
Ammoguy5: Good job there. I remember back in Wisconsin there was a beet loader on a siding on the Milw Rd. This was about 1/4 mile from my aunts parents farm. When I saw it so many years ago it sure loojed interesting. I’d like to find a photo of it and do a model but I’m affraid that no one ever took a picture of it. Beets were a good cash crop for the farmers then but in a small scale. The farms were all family farms not big corporation deals.
I think I’m gonna have too repaint the beets,they should look more like potatoes,at least before they reach the wash rack.
Good work, like the photos!
Thanks for the comments,If any of you have ever seen a beet piler on a flat car or know of a photograph of such please let me know.
Nice job! Keep up the good work. I used to see the beet piles at a beet factory in Findlay Ohio when we visited my grandmother MANY years ago. You got the look just right.
Hal
I am still searching for photo’s of the Great Western railroad beet piler’s loaded on a flat car,Does anyone know of such photo’s? The GW transported their piler’s between beet piles via flatcar’s.Someone must have taken photo’s of them .