Greetings!
Has anyone ever read or written an article on how to model a potash mine? In my area potash is king and I would like to model a mine, just don’t know where to start.
Ron
I don’t want to sound condesending, but start with looking at the real mines. If you have some around, make the field trips and take some pics. If you have the names of the companies, look them up on the internet, they probably will have pictures. Then ypu will know if you have top scartch them or if some of the kits can be bashed to fit what you have seen.
Pull up one of the internet map programs and get a satellite view of your friendly neighborhood mine. Google the corporate name and see what you find (many include multiple photos of their facilities.) Visit the place and get permission to photograph structures and sketch a ground plan. They might even have a plant tour or open-house program.
Since I did that when I could, I now have notebooks and photo albums full of reference info to use in scratchbuilding/kitbashing industries that are now half a century in the past and a rather wide ocean away.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I designed my Trona Railway for the 2006 layout contest for MRR, but didn’t win anything. But this shelf layout can be expanded to whatever room size you may have.
http://www.geocities.com/lifeonapplestreet/trona.pdf
Great job on that trona pdf [tup]
I just looked at your website yesterday for the first time and also enjoyed the Trona article as well. Very informative look at your construction methods also; very helpful to those of us who are just getting started with a first layout. Jamie
That’s a shame. From personal experience, I know the difficulty of getting a track plan published in MR without photographs of the actual layout having great scenery. (My last successful effort was in May 1971 when MR cost 60 cents an issue.)
May I suggest you contact http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/contribute to possibly publish your article. If they aren’t receptive, quite possibly the NMRA Layout Design Special Interest Group could use your article in their periodical.
Mark