Have you used the Walthers Redwing Mill kit as a different industry? Printer? Bakery, Creamery, what? The cyclone fan ducts are one of the distinctive aspects of this model and wondered if they’d fit a creamery, etc. What have you done? No grain no pain 
Trying to decide how to re-purpose mine…
Jim
Jim,I never use a industry kit as suggested I have used the Red Wing mill has a Pillsbury batch plant,a meat processor and a plastic recycler.I even used it as a nonrail served industry.
Furniture or woodworking company with dust collection.
Walthers named a number of their Cornerstone kits after upper midwest locales. The Golden Valley small passenger/freight station comes from a bedroom suburb immediately west of the Minneapolis city limits. Golden Valley adjoined my suburb (St. Louis Park, MN), which had a small Milwaukee Road passenger+ freight station, which is still preserved today as a local museum. Not sure if the real Golden Valley had one, but it could have…
Red Wing, MN was most famously known for 2 things- it’s dishware and pottery factory and Red Wing work shoes and boots. The latter is still made today, although perhaps not locally in Minnesota and the former’s factory closed a few years ago. Both of these (in the 20th cen) were well-enough known to be, in effect, national brand names.
So those two industries could be credible in a re-purposing of the Walthers Red Wing Milling kit, not to mention that there are grain mills along the Mississippi River in the area as well.
Cedarwoodron
I used the background version of it…kept as a bakery/mill for specialty flour. The extra parts in it, I cut down and made a dock for truck unloading parallel with the covered hopper loading/unloading track, that is only 3/4 inch deep, right against the back drop in my ISL portion of the layout and used the plastic pellet silo kit along with it for flour silos, they almost look the same anyway. That 8 inch long truck dock, even has lights in it with two outside dock lights under the awning. Looks great at night. Along with the rest of the complex with inside/outside lights, about twenty incandesants total.
Take Care!
Frank
I also used the background version, which Walthers calls “Centennial Mills.” I made up some decals and called it the Powder Milk Biscuit Company. I placed it diagonally because it’s against a side wall, not a back wall, and the diagonal placement fit better with the track plan. I also opened up one door and made a small shadow-box interior.
To my surprise, this kit also contained the other side of the building, even though I’d expected a 3-sided model as it was a background kit. I took that and the other unused side wall and put it at the other end of the layout.
Nothing fancy here. I made it a fruit warehouse and chose a name that my daughter would enjoy. Drosophila Melanogaster is the Latin name for the common fruit fly.
Like MR B, I kitbashed the Centenial Mills background kit into a bakery. Country Kitchen is/was a Maine bakery company. I never took a closeup of it.
A night shot of my Flour mill in the ISL section. Hopefully it will come out right. First time using Photo Bucket.
Frank
Thought I would throw in a partial daylight shot…plus a custom painted and decaled trailer I have been working on. Truck line I worked for 15yrs.
I built mine as part of GERN’s Gibson Works. It handles some brands of bagged and bulk products, and also houses much of the production of GERN’s line of liquid flux products.
As with any structure kit (or bottle of paint), don’t let the name on the box (or bottle) exert too much influence on for what you think it should be used. [swg]
Wayne
Those are two old standard standbys that an be found on most layouts.
Shall we look deeper for industries we can model?
I will use my method as a example.There are other methods.
I prefer to look outside the industrial box and find a industry type that isn’t on everybody else’s layout.
I use a phone book or the Internet to find industries that is in the area I model and choose the type while avoiding those old standards that is found on every layout throughout the land.The library may have several large city phone books one can look through.
We also need to either match the industries to our dominate car type or match the car selection to fit our industries.
As many know I’m a boxcar junkie so I choose industries that uses boxcars and I add a twist by adding a silo for unloading tank cars or covered hoppers.I may even load covered hoppers with rubber or plastic pellets made from scrap rubber or scrap plastic which arrives by boxcar and truck.Production scrap is placed in roll off dumpsters and hauled away by a local salvage company.
Phone book, what is that??? (long gone from here)
I knew I lived in the boonies…We still get a new phone book once a year…
Nice lighting Frank. I’m considering a brewery. Would the cyclone fans be used for hop and grain dust? I like the furniture factory too. I’m leaning towards making this industry something my billboard cars can use so the brewery or dairy/creamery appealed.
Jim
Thanks, Jim. I don’t see any reason why, the cyclone’s would not be used.
When I get around to it, I’ll take some more shots of that area. That furniture factory, has first floor interior in it, the doors are open, the container is in the way. My son just took some quick pic’s of the area with His smart phone. The building right next to it also has a first floor interior you can see through the windows and doors. Those buildings have a mixture of LED’s and incandescents.
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Well, I’ve got a Red Wing Milling kit, but I never built it. I was going to use it as a grain elevator/feed mill but I decided to scratch build one. I’m glad I did, as I didn’t want the same old replication of that kit on my layout, as I have seen on many others. The scratchbuild was from drawings in Kalmbach’s “Lineside Structures You Can Build”. It has much more character than the Red Wing kit would’ve had. I may use it some day to add on to the grain elevator or add on to my brewery complex, which is already quite a sprawling complex for the small layout that I have.
Jim,
I vote for some sort of woodworking facility. It reminds me of the door factory in which I worked one summer. Especially the cyclones.
I’m attracted to the furniture factory idea but the pull of billboard cars and the love of….a good beer is awful tempting… same for the dairy/creamery but not sure what the cyclone fans would be used for at a dairy/creamery…
It’s hard to find industries where billboard cars are called for and too easy to overdo it so trying to find “the one”. You know, the beer HAT has been popular (in some circles) so maybe a beer chair factory! I’m told model railroading is all about compromises
Regarding scratch building something else, I understand not having the same building/kit as on everyone elses’ layout, but I’ve always liked this particular kit due to it’s interesting details/profile so think it’s worth it (for me) in this particular case. (Cyclone fans, square chimney, etc.) For me it’s “different enough” from a lot of the Walthers kits that it appeals.
Once I get the layout “finished” i’ll go back and scratch build or kit bash replacements.
Jim
Jim,
NAW! You’re going to ‘‘finish’’ it so great…You won’t want to change it. [:-^]
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Perhaps the Red Wing kit could be used as a phone book warehouse - that would explain the need for dust collectors [}:)]
Dave Nelson