Utility Pole Facility Aerial Pics

Hey wouldn’t this facility be a cool thing to model? (Be sure to do the 3D mode as well and click the directions to change camera angle.)

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=33.689783~-84.441279&style=a&lvl=19&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=1403813&encType=1

I posted some pictures of it on the ground over on the Trains.com side. It has a burrow crane, tiny engine, tank car and then pulpwood cars. The tracks for the chemical facility also pass right through it (another cool idea for modeling). The elevated Marta line and large yard also pack things in like so many models do. I also wonder what that little bit of grass behind the facility is for as well.

So does anybody have a good suggestion on how to make utility poles? It would have to be pretty cheap to model that many of them!

bamboo skewers

Where is the plant located? Oh, wait, now I see the Marta reference. Atlanta then…

Get some suitably-sized dowel at your lumber yard or hardware store, cut to proper length, then taper them, using a rasp and some coarse sandpaper. Rix also offers the poles in a couple of lengths, without crossarms. Here’s a load of utility poles made from dowel:

Wayne

A Z-scale modeler could get away with trimming round toothpicks.

Unless you own a hangar (and a spare megabuck) it would be hard to find adequate space in any scale larger than Z - unless you painted all the piles of poles on the backdrop.

(Nice thing about modeling logs is that trimmed twigs don’t really require any fancy finishing.)

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with a log transload facility)

Thanks Wayne, that sounds like a plan. I’m going to give it a shot in N scale, but of course I will have to size it down to fit, but I still think that it should be interesting.