Very cool! I work at a cement plant that used to be Atlas. It was built in 1902 i believe. Iam thinking of doing an ho layout with a cement plant. Thanks for the inspiration.
Nicely done, sir. Some years back I built a small OO scale layout (yes, UK) and wanted to incorporate some city walls and drum towers into it. I used paper tubes from TP and paper towels for the towers, and this is what made me tune in here. When I had the walls and towers put together (some crenelations on top of various states of repair) I "painted" the masonry with joint compound to emulate the stone texture of a real fortification. It came out well. This was then given a mixed coat of grays to make it look more stone-like and then some weathering washes in places. The final touch was some strands of lichen to mimic the greenery that had taken root on the tops of the walls and was now working its way down. Arrow slots were a simple cheat: they were black pieces of paper glued onto the towers. From a distance of 2 foot or so, it looked pretty nice. Add a few toothpick flag staffs and run the colors up a few towers and it was quite the tourist trap. The use of painting with joint compound is the "hint" I'm tossing out. Did a great job in the churchyard to provide some tombstones and other monuments in the town. Now I've retired, I'm getting the urge to redo this layout. Maybe this time I won't glue the points/switches together! :P
the 'a'frame shed is housing a screw type auger to deliver grain to each bin,the door is to allow maintance to get in side to grease bearings along the way,vents are for dust control
The structures on top are likely for dust collection. Dust could cause an explosion. They look like the grain driers offered by Walthers. Keep up the good work.
Awesome scratch-build DJ!! 🙆💜 Watching you is like my times as a kid as I sat with Dad as he would kitbash locos & cars and scratch-build buildings for his Skaneateles Short Line layout. I would watch for hours and "assist" him... ...Years later as a teen, Dad and I would go "chase" Seaboard Coast Line freights & Amtack trains in the evenings, out & about the Sandhills of North Carolina; and we would sip our coffee together in the car as we watched the Hamlet Yard switching operations... ...Now I am 57, and I have been gifted an N scale EMD GP15-1 and a few cars. Sooooo, I am blue-skying a simple semi-automated, point-to-point shelf layout with an Inglenook or Timesaver, DCC & sound to have at my cubicle at work for other my fellow design engineers to come by and play with... ...Dad passed-on a decade ago, but he's smiling as I blue-sky this layout, and we watch railfan & modeling videos "together." Just an aside: your voice is *so soothing* and listening to you as you gently, and with light humor explain things - well, it's helping me relax as my body heals from my recent hip replacement surgery! Thanks, Blessings & Joy!! 😊❤
Just came across this while watching your channel. Excellent idea I think I will try to add some similar to it to my HO scale layout that I have just started again. Thanks again for the ideas.
DJ, I’ve been following your videos for just a short time but really appreciate what goes into them! The drone footage is amazing and what great perspectives it gives! Keep up the good work. Thanks!
The Conveyor to distribute the seamont between the silo's is what is in the triangular shape most places they use a rectangular building but that seems to be a different design and yes those are dust collectors because the man is explosive to just like wheat is....thanks for sharing....Jack, love the drone footage....😀
I bought a Walthers silo kit and found it a bit of a pain. Tried this approach and it is soooooo much easier. Except for the painting, my technique was identical to yours. The other nice thing about it is that you can put the pipe on your model railroad first to determine placement and how many to make and what the facility will look roughly look like. Do you need 6 bins? 8? 10? Once you get going, it's fun and easy with quick results as this video demonstrates. Be safe out there DJ
The 2 structures on the top of the silos are baghouse dust collectors. These collect the dust when the silos are being filled. Each bag house appears to be connected to 3 silos. Other silos appear to have just free vents.
The triangular thing on the roof will contain either a giant Toblerone or a conveyor belt for moving cement into the silos. Assuming it's the latter, I assume it will be something like the system used in a grain elevator, which you can see in this video: th-cam.com/video/8gPF4L5NP34/w-d-xo.html (specifically from about 2:45, but the whole video is worth watching).
Great build DJ !!! I am planing to move in a few months and if I have enough room for my new layout I may have two cement plants. My new layout will be called “The Baltimore Area Railroads”. With many recognizable scenes that I like. My main yard will be a scaled down version of Curtis Bay Yard along with the Coal Pier. Barry
Nice thing about cement is that the cars are shorter so you get to run longer trains or stuff more cars in a siding. If you are modeling a modern era elevator that loads cars they tend to now take very long trains that are harder to model. Not as many 3-5 cars at a time elevators as there used to be.
Very nice. I'm planning on a cement plant with silos and a rotary kiln. PVC or paper towel cardboard cores should work? You're drone work really adds great context to the hobby.
Great footage of the actual silos! I'll be honest, I love those shots more than the model making! But the model looks pretty good too, just need to keep adding details to match the prototype. Cheers! Kaustav
Detail: check out the footbridge and paths leading to factory houses... all look the same, so guessing that I'm correct. Also, thanks to those replying about the roof details, i.e., access doors, conveyor, dust collectors. Appears graffiti in unimaginable places. Anyway, here's a tip: try using a PVC pipe cutter... so much easier! Love the video.
Actually the best thing to do is to glue the roof piece on, so that the bottom is where it would be uneven, then hide that with sculptamold or other scenic stuff
Looks awesome dj. I’ve thought about doing this to add more to my grain facility. Cool use if your drone. Nice flying 😃👍Walthers makes a dust collector kit that could be used on the roof
i just normally use acrylic paints and a foam wedge. Start with a color called warm buff. Then add extra white or grey if needed. Even streaks of orange on area where there may be rust from a nearby bridge, etc.
Dj, was that a facility that unloaded cement and packaged it for smaller ways of shipment, or was it a facility that loaded the hoppers with the powder?
@@djstrains awesome, let me know what you find out, if you don't mind. Ive started part of a cement facility that will be the epicenter of the layout I intend to build in the near future when I find another house. My layout will be a bridge line between ns and csx. I'm creating a facility that will receive unit cement trains from the csx end, and will receive box cars from my home road, as well as rbox's for shipment of palletized bags. Its probably gonna be a Quickrete plant. I live along the Winston Salem Southound Railway. Also a bridge line that was created as a joint venture in the early 1900s between NW, and the ACL to move coal from West Va, to the port of Charleston, SC. The quickest route was the "pumpkin vine" which ended here in Winston Salem where I live. The best place both companies found to make a connection was to continue south of Winston, and connect with the ACL in Wadesboro, NC. The WSSB is still going wide open, but no coal. Lots of grain trains come from NS, handed off to WSSB for spotting at Corn Products International (now Ingredion), and ethanol trains are handed off to them at both ends for unloading in Tuckertown, NC. Those guys are paid by CSX, work under CSX rules and dispatching, and NS covers 49% of everything else
The buildings and equipment from the rest of the plant provide marketable scrap and some equipment may be sold. Concrete silos are expensive to demolish and have little if any scrap value. Also, the buildings are expensive to insure but not concrete silos.
Great video DJ. Really cool to use your drone that way. Ive been really impressed with the video you have shown us. What kind of drone did you get? Papadan
What raw product goes into the Cement plants? Something in Covered Hoppers? Or do they only Ship Cement powder in Covered Hoppers like 2-3 Bay and bagged Cement in Boxcars?
what is interesting about this plant is that it used a lot of slag from the nearby steel mills, and then used that for making byproducts. I am still learning about things too. But I was told that the bagged cement was shipped by boxcars and I am finding old pics that indicate there was a covered area where stuff was loaded into tops off covered hoppers near bottom of the silos.
I just found this interesting page detailing product processing flow. Makes sense now about stuff coming from steel mills. www.engineeringintro.com/uncategorized/cement-manufacturing-process/
I just got the 2.5” PVC yesterday and clear primer and glue. I already have the Styrene sheet. Cheaper than the Walthers Medusa plant! My main central span industries are a Grain Elevator (Walthers) And a Cement plant. Check out DDRAILROAD in N Scale on TH-cam.
Amazing my friend. Dang screw toilet paper and paper towel tubes. This was the answer all along.
Very cool! I work at a cement plant that used to be Atlas. It was built in 1902 i believe. Iam thinking of doing an ho layout with a cement plant. Thanks for the inspiration.
Awesome
DJ the things on the roof are "bag houses" to trap dust from escaping when the cement is loaded into the towers
Thanks!!!
That end result is awesome, I like the effects of having the brush strokes sideways, it matched the prototype very well.
Hey DJ. The use of your drone really enables you to view the prototype to the fullest and enhances your skills as a scratch builder. Nice.
Nicely done, sir. Some years back I built a small OO scale layout (yes, UK) and wanted to incorporate some city walls and drum towers into it. I used paper tubes from TP and paper towels for the towers, and this is what made me tune in here. When I had the walls and towers put together (some crenelations on top of various states of repair) I "painted" the masonry with joint compound to emulate the stone texture of a real fortification. It came out well. This was then given a mixed coat of grays to make it look more stone-like and then some weathering washes in places. The final touch was some strands of lichen to mimic the greenery that had taken root on the tops of the walls and was now working its way down. Arrow slots were a simple cheat: they were black pieces of paper glued onto the towers. From a distance of 2 foot or so, it looked pretty nice. Add a few toothpick flag staffs and run the colors up a few towers and it was quite the tourist trap. The use of painting with joint compound is the "hint" I'm tossing out. Did a great job in the churchyard to provide some tombstones and other monuments in the town. Now I've retired, I'm getting the urge to redo this layout. Maybe this time I won't glue the points/switches together! :P
the 'a'frame shed is housing a screw type auger to deliver grain to each bin,the door is to allow maintance to get in side to grease bearings along the way,vents are for dust control
It won't be an auger. It'll be a conveyor belt, with a movable distributor to drop the cement to either the left or the right.
We call them clinker huts where i work. Yes a conveyor runs the silo length to fill each silo.
The structures on top are likely for dust collection. Dust could cause an explosion. They look like the grain driers offered by Walthers. Keep up the good work.
It’s amazing what the drone has done for model railroading and railfaning. The model looks really good DJ, you need a small tree on the roof.
Awesome scratch-build DJ!! 🙆💜
Watching you is like my times as a kid as I sat with Dad as he would kitbash locos & cars and scratch-build buildings for his Skaneateles Short Line layout. I would watch for hours and "assist" him...
...Years later as a teen, Dad and I would go "chase" Seaboard Coast Line freights & Amtack trains in the evenings, out & about the Sandhills of North Carolina; and we would sip our coffee together in the car as we watched the Hamlet Yard switching operations...
...Now I am 57, and I have been gifted an N scale EMD GP15-1 and a few cars. Sooooo, I am blue-skying a simple semi-automated, point-to-point shelf layout with an Inglenook or Timesaver, DCC & sound to have at my cubicle at work for other my fellow design engineers to come by and play with...
...Dad passed-on a decade ago, but he's smiling as I blue-sky this layout, and we watch railfan & modeling videos "together."
Just an aside: your voice is *so soothing* and listening to you as you gently, and with light humor explain things - well, it's helping me relax as my body heals from my recent hip replacement surgery!
Thanks, Blessings & Joy!! 😊❤
Fantastic!!
I have the Walthers Medusa Cement plant on my layout and yours looks so much better! Great work. I need to start scratch building.
Does the madusa kit have the roof details that I need?
djstrains it has some good roof details, but doesn’t resemble your prototype that much.
Just came across this while watching your channel. Excellent idea I think I will try to add some similar to it to my HO scale layout that I have just started again. Thanks again for the ideas.
Glad it was helpful!
That was really a clever build ! I liked the prototype drone footage, your build nailed it
Thank you very much!
DJ, I’ve been following your videos for just a short time but
really appreciate what goes into them! The drone footage is amazing and what great perspectives it gives!
Keep up the good work. Thanks!
Awesome! Thank you!
Great videos with drone and how to on silos .
Your railroad experience gives great insight to real world modeling.
Wow! Now I wish I had a reason to model a cement plant. Very cool!
I really enjoyed your video , you get some amazing shots with that drone.
Great job, really looks like old concrete!
The Conveyor to distribute the seamont between the silo's is what is in the triangular shape most places they use a rectangular building but that seems to be a different design and yes those are dust collectors because the man is explosive to just like wheat is....thanks for sharing....Jack, love the drone footage....😀
Awesome result, indeed! Inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Great advice for how to create a silo thanks
You’re welcome 😊
I bought a Walthers silo kit and found it a bit of a pain. Tried this approach and it is soooooo much easier. Except for the painting, my technique was identical to yours. The other nice thing about it is that you can put the pipe on your model railroad first to determine placement and how many to make and what the facility will look roughly look like. Do you need 6 bins? 8? 10? Once you get going, it's fun and easy with quick results as this video demonstrates. Be safe out there DJ
The 2 structures on the top of the silos are baghouse dust collectors. These collect the dust when the silos are being filled. Each bag house appears to be connected to 3 silos. Other silos appear to have just free vents.
Thanks for the info! I model so much stuff that I don't know what it is or how it works, lol.
Those are dust collectors with filters , a lot of cement works use a lot of them or massive units to the side.
Love these videos DJ!
The triangular thing on the roof will contain either a giant Toblerone or a conveyor belt for moving cement into the silos. Assuming it's the latter, I assume it will be something like the system used in a grain elevator, which you can see in this video: th-cam.com/video/8gPF4L5NP34/w-d-xo.html (specifically from about 2:45, but the whole video is worth watching).
Very nice work, beautifully done!
Great job DJ!!
Great how to video! Thanks!
Great build DJ !!! I am planing to move in a few months and if I have enough room for my new layout I may have two cement plants. My new layout will be called “The Baltimore Area Railroads”. With many recognizable scenes that I like. My main yard will be a scaled down version of Curtis Bay Yard along with the Coal Pier.
Barry
I wanted some silos, didn’t know if I wanted cement or grain. This video makes me want to try cement!
You can do it!
Nice thing about cement is that the cars are shorter so you get to run longer trains or stuff more cars in a siding. If you are modeling a modern era elevator that loads cars they tend to now take very long trains that are harder to model. Not as many 3-5 cars at a time elevators as there used to be.
Very nice. I'm planning on a cement plant with silos and a rotary kiln. PVC or paper towel cardboard cores should work? You're drone work really adds great context to the hobby.
Great footage of the actual silos! I'll be honest, I love those shots more than the model making! But the model looks pretty good too, just need to keep adding details to match the prototype. Cheers! Kaustav
Great modelling! planning to follow what you did. Thanks for putting this up!
Fantastic job! Looks Great!
-Ben
the large upright on the left attached to building,is the grain elevator
Excellent video.
THANK YOU...for sharing.
Great stuff, DJ! I’ve been thinking about doing a similar project. Yours looks good. Looking forward to seeing how it comes out.
looks good
Looks good
The drone is coming in handy.
plus its fun
Thanks DJ for the great video. Awesome attention to detail
Detail: check out the footbridge and paths leading to factory houses... all look the same, so guessing that I'm correct. Also, thanks to those replying about the roof details, i.e., access doors, conveyor, dust collectors. Appears graffiti in unimaginable places. Anyway, here's a tip: try using a PVC pipe cutter... so much easier! Love the video.
Great use of drone"
Dust collectors is what you see on the roof
AH!! That makes sense!! Thanks!!
Yes! Thank you!
Love Your Silo's! MoPac Jack
If I can make them, ANYONE can make em!
looking good
The Model, not you...
I just blew snot out my nose! lol! That made my day Eric.
Very Awesome!! How big would it be for G scale?
As big as you can find, lol. I would just use whatever "looks right" to you.
I have one of these on the to-do list. How did you even out the uneven heights on the PVC silos?
Actually the best thing to do is to glue the roof piece on, so that the bottom is where it would be uneven, then hide that with sculptamold or other scenic stuff
Looks awesome dj. I’ve thought about doing this to add more to my grain facility. Cool use if your drone. Nice flying 😃👍Walthers makes a dust collector kit that could be used on the roof
do they make it in n scale?
djstrains I’m not sure if they do or not. But it’s the ones that are on the Walthers grain silos. Also on their Medusa cement kit
Hi DJ I was thinking of using toilet rolls for silo. What do you think DJ.I also is making cement silo and grain silo,s as well.
cant paint without it warping, also the cardboard line may give it away if up close. Worth a try if you want to experiment.
Can this be used to convey the basic concept of prototyping? Like in a nutshell.
100%. correct. I used to stress over not being able to model EVERYTHING, but then I chilled out and just model a reproduction of the feel of the area.
You might do a TH-cam on concrete color like on the silos. Thanks.
i just normally use acrylic paints and a foam wedge. Start with a color called warm buff. Then add extra white or grey if needed. Even streaks of orange on area where there may be rust from a nearby bridge, etc.
Dj, was that a facility that unloaded cement and packaged it for smaller ways of shipment, or was it a facility that loaded the hoppers with the powder?
I believe the building on the side of the silos were for loading bags into trucks. I will meet an old engineer in May that will tell me more.
@@djstrains awesome, let me know what you find out, if you don't mind.
Ive started part of a cement facility that will be the epicenter of the layout I intend to build in the near future when I find another house. My layout will be a bridge line between ns and csx. I'm creating a facility that will receive unit cement trains from the csx end, and will receive box cars from my home road, as well as rbox's for shipment of palletized bags. Its probably gonna be a Quickrete plant.
I live along the Winston Salem Southound Railway. Also a bridge line that was created as a joint venture in the early 1900s between NW, and the ACL to move coal from West Va, to the port of Charleston, SC. The quickest route was the "pumpkin vine" which ended here in Winston Salem where I live. The best place both companies found to make a connection was to continue south of Winston, and connect with the ACL in Wadesboro, NC. The WSSB is still going wide open, but no coal. Lots of grain trains come from NS, handed off to WSSB for spotting at Corn Products International (now Ingredion), and ethanol trains are handed off to them at both ends for unloading in Tuckertown, NC. Those guys are paid by CSX, work under CSX rules and dispatching, and NS covers 49% of everything else
Your Amazing
you're. Didn't they teach you spelling at CSX? It'll probably be on the pods for 2019
Dj, are cement hoppers loaded at this site or are cement bought in and dumped to fill the silos then distributed to trucks ?
I believe ra materials are brought in by hopper. Cement powder is made and then bagged and shipped out by boxcar and truck.
What colors did you use to simulate the cement?
Please be safe with that power saw, hoping u were wearing proper ppe.
Nice job on the build but it makes no sense y they would leave the silos and tear the rest down unless they plan on reusing the someday
The buildings and equipment from the rest of the plant provide marketable scrap and some equipment may be sold. Concrete silos are expensive to demolish and have little if any scrap value. Also, the buildings are expensive to insure but not concrete silos.
Great video DJ. Really cool to use your drone that way. Ive been really impressed with the video you have shown us. What kind of drone did you get? Papadan
mavic air
What would be the size and height for HO?
I am not sure since I don't have an HO scale ruler handy.
What raw product goes into the Cement plants? Something in Covered Hoppers? Or do they only Ship Cement powder in Covered Hoppers like 2-3 Bay and bagged Cement in Boxcars?
what is interesting about this plant is that it used a lot of slag from the nearby steel mills, and then used that for making byproducts. I am still learning about things too. But I was told that the bagged cement was shipped by boxcars and I am finding old pics that indicate there was a covered area where stuff was loaded into tops off covered hoppers near bottom of the silos.
I guess I’ll try to make mine into a Concrete Plant Covered Hoppers in. Cement Trucks out. And Boxcars with bags out.
I just found this interesting page detailing product processing flow. Makes sense now about stuff coming from steel mills.
www.engineeringintro.com/uncategorized/cement-manufacturing-process/
How doesn’t the cement harden in the 2 bay hopper
powder cement
Jeremiah Harrington cement is a grey powder that is mixed with sand and aggregate to make concrete. As long as it stays dry it’ll stay powdery 👍
Love your videos. What drone do you fly DJ? Bill, Pittsburgh, PA.
Mavic air
It’s funny how most guys who are into model railroading are also into drones as well! I have the Mavic pro, love it!
About 2” pipe?
Yes, for N Scale. When going to hardware store, use your judgement to see how it looks to you and placement on your layout.
Where on the Union is this located?
Penn Hills
I call that stuff "super duper glue"
I would of airbrushed the project. Otherwise it is a clever way to make the silos.
I currently don't have an airbrush or compressor, but may look into one later this year.
I just got the 2.5” PVC yesterday and clear primer and glue. I already have the Styrene sheet.
Cheaper than the Walthers Medusa plant!
My main central span industries are a Grain Elevator (Walthers) And a Cement plant.
Check out DDRAILROAD in N Scale on TH-cam.
I subscribed! Looking forward to seeing it.