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 Posted - August 24 2014 : 10:08:12 AM
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My BOTW is what happens when you have a structure you don't know what to do with + lots of sheet styrene.
It began as a Bachmann (?) passenger depot that wasn't really doing anything for me. I converted it into a REA freight transfer depot, adding an extended dock area for trucks to pull into and fork lifts to run around on.
 
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Posted - August 24 2014 : 3:55:44 PM
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quote:My BOTW is what happens when you have a structure you don't know what to do with + lots of sheet styrene.
It began as a Bachmann (?) passenger depot that wasn't really doing anything for me. I converted it into a REA freight transfer depot, adding an extended dock area for trucks to pull into and fork lifts to run around on.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â August 24 2014Â :Â 10:08:12 AM
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Very nice building! I've never been a big fan of the Bachmann structures, but with some added parts, details, and weathering, they can look great. The weathering on the roof looks especially good.
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Posted - August 24 2014 : 5:30:50 PM
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Jerry, I like the attention to detail. You even have the rubber bumpers for the trucks to bump against on the dock.
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Posted - August 24 2014 : 9:24:31 PM
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Creative repurposing of that passenger statiton! The yellow caution lines are a nice touch.
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Posted - August 24 2014 : 9:32:20 PM
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My BOTW:
Bret's Brewery... An all wood Campbell model I believe.
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Posted - August 24 2014 : 10:12:02 PM
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Have my old dusty Howard Johnson's out this week...
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Posted - August 24 2014 : 10:44:01 PM
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A new station, I just got at the Greenberg train show.
Pine Hallow Station
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dated 1987.
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Posted - August 24 2014 : 11:11:00 PM
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Very nice station, Frank...
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Posted - August 25 2014 : 01:51:18 AM
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This has always been an awkward building, I really like your solution to the difficult platforms and other problems that this structure had.quote: quote:My BOTW is what happens when you have a structure you don't know what to do with + lots of sheet styrene.
It began as a Bachmann (?) passenger depot that wasn't really doing anything for me. I converted it into a REA freight transfer depot, adding an extended dock area for trucks to pull into and fork lifts to run around on.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â August 24 2014Â :Â 10:08:12 AM
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Very nice building! I've never been a big fan of the Bachmann structures, but with some added parts, details, and weathering, they can look great. The weathering on the roof looks especially good.
Originally posted by ChessieRRÂ -Â August 24 2014Â :Â 3:55:44 PM
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Posted - August 26 2014 : 2:43:08 PM
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This is really a lovely structure. This is one you could put on the layout without any modifications and feel very comfortable with it. It has true charm and character.quote:
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Posted - August 27 2014 : 12:39:04 AM
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This drove me (more) nuts hunting for it in old mags.
Finally, while not looking, I spotted it.
Aristo-Craft B550 Cooling Tower. Cooling for what?
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Posted - August 27 2014 : 12:47:31 AM
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| Those Aristocraft structures have been catching my eye. I've never seen one close up; only in photos. But they seem to have just enough pretty solid detail and just enough "left out" to facilitate your imagination flowing. And, I think they would be excellent with a vintage train set.
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Posted - August 27 2014 : 12:34:58 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â August 24 2014Â :Â 10:08:12 AM
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 I a idiot for not thinking of this earlier!
What you need is a portable ramp for getting the forklilfts off & on the loading dock
Or add a permanent ramp someplace 
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Posted - August 27 2014 : 3:44:49 PM
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quote:
Well Micro-B the fork lifts don't need to go anywhere but between the train cars and the trucks with some forays into the depot itself, but I can see where they may want to drive one down to the What-A-Burger around lunch time
I will keep your suggestion in mind when I finally glue this building down somewhere!
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Posted - August 27 2014 : 4:35:56 PM
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hi pge33,no more real details,ken
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Posted - August 27 2014 : 8:10:09 PM
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No, Ken.It was as-is in a junk box of HO buildings.
I could easily add all kinds of junk to it, as in the illustration.
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Posted - August 28 2014 : 02:01:47 AM
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I worked at a large Supermarket chain in the St. louis area. We would often have regular cleaning inspections. Our Receiver decided that he wanted our forklift clean and shiny for an inspection and drove it down the ramp and then across the street to a do it yourself car wash.He sprayed the thing down and shorted out the battery in the process, it then blew up and caught fire. In another instance, we received a load of potting soil form a local nursery. They had an old flatbed truck with a wooden floor that had seen better days. the forklift crashed all the way through the flatbed trailer and went straight past the frame-rails to the ground. The Receiver got pretty banged up. We had another guy who managed to knock off a sprinkler head in our warehouse with the forklift, not once..not twice ...but three times on separate occasions. He earned the nickname the Master of Disaster.quote:
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Posted - August 28 2014 : 02:08:34 AM
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| While I am thinking of it, the Mopac had what I believe was the worlds first fully automated railroad freight house in downtown St. louis. I got to walk through it when I was a member of the Missouri Pacific Explorer Post. It had small rails in the floor that automated low-lifts would follow any transfer pallets from one dock to another. Must have been pretty cool when it worked but I understand that it was short lived. The building did survive for some time and was finally demolished about the time that they built the MetroLink light rail system.
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Posted - August 28 2014 : 03:42:04 AM
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kool I'd like to get the Coca Cola stand
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Posted - August 29 2014 : 12:24:53 AM
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quote:While I am thinking of it, the Mopac had what I believe was the worlds first fully automated railroad freight house in downtown St. louis. I got to walk through it when I was a member of the Missouri Pacific Explorer Post. It had small rails in the floor that automated low-lifts would follow any transfer pallets from one dock to another. Must have been pretty cool when it worked but I understand that it was short lived. The building did survive for some time and was finally demolished about the time that they built the MetroLink light rail system.
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â August 28 2014Â :Â 02:08:34 AM
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Really? That building would've been pretty neat as some museum type thing but then again, it was probably in a very sorry state by the time they demolished it and would probably take too much time to restore. Plus the fact that it would probably cost too much money to buy and restore the structure itself.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - August 30 2014 : 2:43:27 PM
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quote:This drove me (more) nuts hunting for it in old mags.
Finally, while not looking, I spotted it.
Aristo-Craft B550 Cooling Tower. Cooling for what?
Evan
Originally posted by PGE33Â -Â August 27 2014Â :Â 12:39:04 AM
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I would want to guess a charcoal kiln, except for the timber construction. Failing that,
you might wish to letter it up for a rehab clinic for Tycomaniac's to cool off from
the ride down the slippery slope.
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Posted - August 30 2014 : 11:12:18 PM
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| If not a charcoal kiln then how about a lumber kiln?
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Posted - August 31 2014 : 12:08:12 AM
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quote:If not a charcoal kiln then how about a lumber kiln?
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â August 30 2014Â :Â 11:12:18 PM
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It looks like the kind of factory that makes the front ends of horses to be shipped to Washington D.C. for final assembly. The rounded shape has levels of carousels where the horses are rotated under heat lamps and past fans until the horse glue sets up. The molecules in the glue are agitated with calliope music.
Outgoing loads are the front halves of horses mounted on pallets with the middle supported by a wooden frame attached to the pallet. These are shipped out in the front halves of stock cars. Incoming loads are bales of red clover hay shipped into the plant in the empty stock cars and covered hoppers (modern era) or box cars (steam era) loaded with the front halves of oats.
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Posted - August 31 2014 : 10:31:49 PM
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Jerry I understand the yellow rubber bumpers!
If you are wondering about the driver, He ran for 2 minutes. He is walking back it will take him 1.5 hours!
Ramps? What Ramps? Don't need no stinking Ramps!!!
Regards, John ****************
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. Will Rogers
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Posted - August 31 2014 : 10:34:33 PM
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quote:My BOTW is what happens when you have a structure you don't know what to do with + lots of sheet styrene.
It began as a Bachmann (?) passenger depot that wasn't really doing anything for me. I converted it into a REA freight transfer depot, adding an extended dock area for trucks to pull into and fork lifts to run around on.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â August 24 2014Â :Â 10:08:12 AM
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Well, Plastruct/Evergreen must really like you now! Cool build, just needs some trucks, forklifts and freight piled everywhere. Nice work!
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Posted - September 01 2014 : 10:11:00 PM
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As part of my job before retirement was an OSHA inspector and forklift safety instructor for all our plants around the world. While OSHA applied to the USA, the company used them to set policy to all our other facillities. Every 3 years all personnel that were allowed to drive a fork lift were tested and issued a driving licence (except in Germany where a regular driving licence allows anyone to drive a forklift) I used the same pics John posted and then some. Like the inside video showing a supervisor no less zipping through a 10 ft. tall doorway with a load fully extended to 14 ft.
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Posted - December 18 2015 : 6:38:45 PM
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quote:Those Aristocraft structures have been catching my eye. I've never seen one close up; only in photos. But they seem to have just enough pretty solid detail and just enough "left out" to facilitate your imagination flowing. And, I think they would be excellent with a vintage train set.
Originally posted by Barry - August 27 2014 : 12:47:31 AM
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Chiming in late, this is a Vollmer kit imported by Aristocraft. They were like AHM, but earlier in time, importing from Faller, Vollmer, Hoffman and other European manufacturers. I built this in the early 60s and did ok considering my skills at the time.
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 Posted - January 19 2016 : 02:47:13 AM
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That is really a lovely structure.
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http://www.casesam.co.uk/category-sony-xperia-z5-accessories-89.html
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