Industrial renewal

[3rdrail]

For 1980 you could have an LED encrusted Hazmat truck and a bunch of federal looking black sedans, and the mill operator prone on the ground getting hand cuffed for "failure to comply"... ;D

Lee

Nice...!  With a PC boxcar derailed on the siding since 1972...!

The mill operator is not being cuffed for "failure to comply", but for failure to pay the at least $87,990.00 in demurrage owed on the PC boxcar!  ;D ;D ;D

[Chris333]

I like that new Walther's building, they need to produce more like it.

[Dave V]

OK, I've installed the loading ramp and platform across the tracks and "paved" across the siding.  Pics when it dries!

[wm3798]

"every body's doing it"....

Boy do you always cave in to peer pressure?

L

[Dave V]

"every body's doing it"....

Boy do you always cave in to peer pressure?

L

My loony bun is fine Benny Lava.

[SAH]

Well done Dave.  An all to common but seldom modeled business practice.  When one starts really looking at the the prototype, nearly all but the most recently built industrial structures are a series of additions.

[sirenwerks]

NIce Dave! Creates an interesting roofline combo that makes the kits look unique.

[wcfn100]

I like the addition but I'm wondering how common it would be to have a fancy brick front on a cinder block building addition.

Nice job.


Buzz Killington

[GaryHinshaw]

Great improvement Dave!  It's so central PA.

My loony bun is fine Benny Lava.

??? Whenever I see gobbledygook like this I Google it.  OMG, hilarious!!

-Gary

[cv_acr]

I like it. The company looks really good. I see the unloading conveyor for coal hoppers at the back, maybe add some bins for storing the coal so they can sell to household customers and not pay demmurage on the hopper to use it as a storage bin?

[Chris333]

Coal would have been stored under the hopper car, it is parked on a trestle.

[Dave V]

I like it. The company looks really good. I see the unloading conveyor for coal hoppers at the back, maybe add some bins for storing the coal so they can sell to household customers and not pay demmurage on the hopper to use it as a storage bin?

There is actually a small coal trestle there...  You'll see it better when I post an overhead shot of the ramp when the ramp dries.

[wm3798]

How about for your 80's conversion you pop up the oil tanks and put a make shift garden center in its place... You know, stacked bags of mulch, landscaping stone, that sort of thing...  Maybe a small green house.

Lee

[sirenwerks]

I like the addition but I'm wondering how common it would be to have a fancy brick front on a cinder block building addition.

From what I've seen growing up in Maryland and spending a fair amount of time in Pennsylvania, the practice is not uncommon at all. Why waste money on fancy brick on the sides the customers won't see? Use cheaper cinder block instead. I think in it may be a bit more prototypical to have brick on both the storefront and the side facing the street but it's all painted the same color so the customer speeding by is really not gonna notice the difference.

[wcfn100]

I like the addition but I'm wondering how common it would be to have a fancy brick front on a cinder block building addition.

From what I've seen growing up in Maryland and spending a fair amount of time in Pennsylvania, the practice is not uncommon at all. Why waste money on fancy brick on the sides the customers won't see? Use cheaper cinder block instead. I think in it may be a bit more prototypical to have brick on both the storefront and the side facing the street but it's all painted the same color so the customer speeding by is really not gonna notice the difference.

I know the practice is very common for original buildings as there are examples everywhere (although I think the brick would be used more for a street side front).  But to represent an addition to an older structure, I would probably expect an all block building.

It's just something that struck me at first. It's grown on me.


Jason