In this part, I am constructing some building that will be part of the plant. The first building is scratch built around a leftover roof from a Kato overhead station. This roof piece has been sitting around for years and it feels great to finally use it. In fact, this entire project is absorbing bits and pieces left over of past builds.
The Halliburton barite processing facility in Battle Mountain was built from a Walther's Glacier Gravel kit and I did not use all of it. This car loading structure is built around one of the larger sections of the Walther's kit that I had left over.
This last building is entirely scratch built from Evergreen styrene. I had noticed some long narrow buildings in overhead photos of the prototype with a rail spur running alongside of one of them. In the photo there are covered hoppers parked on that spur but I am going to go with the idea that they could also ship bagged product in the occasional box car. So this one has one large door and a long loading dock. The ramp was something left over from the Walther's warehouse kit so I used it here.
These structures just have a primer coat of paint right now. These will all be getting some finish paint and more details. Although the prototype site has 3 spur tracks, I've decided my model will only have 2 and am building the turnout I'll need for that now.
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