TEWS CEMENT Plant - pictured in the Cripple Creek MR project layout.

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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I want to model a small cement plant on my layout. Typically, when I travel see these types of cement plants in cities and towns. I have one in my city. The type I am referring to closely resembles and in some cases is identical to the Tews Cement plant found on on MR’s project layouts the Cripple Creek.

Keep in mind small plant versus large plant. I consider the Walthers Valley Cement a large one.

I can’t seem to find anyone selling something like this. Do i need to scratchbuild it?

Any recommendations.

-Ron

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I just used the Walthers Cement Plant. You could always try the Walthers kit, and “tweak” it to the way you want. Rather than spending time building you won.

Here’s a couple of shots of the cement plant on my layout.

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nice work. is the guy in the road dead or drunk?

grizlump

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I keep forgetting he’s in the shot. [swg]

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Hi Ron, Have you typed in “cement plant model” on the Internet. They show how to model your own small plant, but I think you will still prefer to “tweek” the Walther’s model. It takes too much time to construct your own parts for a model. Bob Hahn

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Are you thinking of a ready mix plant? If you check Walters, they have several versions available from different manufacturers. Also their asphalt plant could be pretty easily kitbashed into a concrete ready mix plant. Wouldn’t be too hard to scratch build one since it’s mostly a silo or two and big piles of gravel and sand.

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Yes. There was a different Walthers kit that I saw, smaller. I went and looked at the prototype. I guess I can use what Walthers has and kitbash and modify it to what i’m envisioning.++

Thanks everyone.

-RC

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Those are beautiful pictures!

You might want to send the coroner over to pick up that dead body in the bottom image…

:slight_smile:

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Many months ago I posted in the Forums a discussion of two similar looking cement plant kits, one by Faller http://www.udisco.com/hobbies/inv/FALL02.HTM

And IHC’s very cheap version using Faller’s retired tooling:

From this website: http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/ihc/ihc902.htm

And at least last year Athearn offered a cement truck painted “Tews”

Dave Nelson

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The Faller kit shown above is the one from MRs Cripple Creek Central. The IHC costs about 5 bucks compared to the 50ish for the Faller one.

Nick

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Get ahold of Pelle Soeborg’s book “Mountain to Desert: Building the HO Scale Daneville and Donner River”. He has a nice looking cement plant that is heavily kitbashed off of the Atlas kit. His is far more than a few silos with a shed. It’s just a great book to learn from too. Here’s a shot of it:

http://www.soeeborg.dk/Images/IMG_5241.jpg

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Heeeey I recognize that scene! It was on the cover of the 4/08 issue of MR! That one is I think the second MR issue I ever bought. It was the cover shot for the issue as I mentioned and for an article inside on how to make your layout seem more realistic. It talked about track details, i.e. using different code for sidings/spurs/mainline, and talked about different details for other scenes, like adding bill boards,company signs, I do believe it touched on traffic signs, and terrain. Didn’t know that was his. I’ve seen his stuff in past issues and get a little extra excited when I page through the latest issue or MR in the mail and notice his name on an article or too.