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JackBohm
My layout project is going fairly well. I have long since decided on a small town/rural theme in the Midwest.
Does anyone know of a S scale grain elevator? Or would a modified HO scale one work?
I seek one along the lines of the one attached.
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JackBohm said:
My layout project is going fairly well. I have long since decided on a small town/rural theme in the Midwest.
Does anyone know of a S scale grain elevator? Or would a modified HO scale one work?
I seek one along the lines of the one attached.

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Sorry I can't help, I just wanted to comment on that beautiful picture....WOW!!
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Lehigh Valley Models made a kit called Hawk Milling (LVM10.) It's now available from K&P Brick & Building Co. It's an "old school" wood and cardstock kit.

www.kpbrick.com

LVM10 Hawk Milling Co. | Mysite

Unlike the towering grain storage silos of the Midwest, this building can be found along almost any siding in a small town or village, or on the outskirts of a large metropolis. The prototype received various grains by boxcar or covered hopper car, stored it in the silos and processed it into...
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I was in the process of building one when its priority dropped:




I'll complete it one day, I tend to get distracted easily when building structures. I did replace the three cardbord tube silos with six 2" PVC pipe.

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Rusty Traque said:
Lehigh Valley Models made a kit called Hawk Milling (LVM10.) It's now available from K&P Brick & Building Co. It's an "old school" wood and cardstock kit.

www.kpbrick.com

LVM10 Hawk Milling Co. | Mysite

Unlike the towering grain storage silos of the Midwest, this building can be found along almost any siding in a small town or village, or on the outskirts of a large metropolis. The prototype received various grains by boxcar or covered hopper car, stored it in the silos and processed it into...
www.kpbrick.com www.kpbrick.com

I was in the process of building one when its priority dropped:
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I'll complete it one day, I tend to get distracted easily when building structures. I did replace the three cardbord tube silos with six 2" PVC pipe.

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Very nice. I’m hoping to find a plastic one.
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I had to go back to the 2014V2 Lionel catalog. Ive heard of some S gaugers adapting this rural grain elevator. It hails from the MPC days when it was offered as a kit.



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AmFlyer
Gilbert sold the #165, it is in the 1953 catalog. They usually show up for sale on ebay.
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If you can't find a kit close to what you want, you could scratch build using styrene from Evergreen. The sizes of things are measured in inches/mm rather than scale. Might actually work better, ie using pea gravel as a foundation versus embossed stone texture plastic? Or creating it tailored to fit the footprint you have available, etc.
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JackBohm said:
My layout project is going fairly well. I have long since decided on a small town/rural theme in the Midwest.
Does anyone know of a S scale grain elevator? Or would a modified HO scale one work?
I seek one along the lines of the one attached.

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I prefer the siloed style that dots the landscape everywhere in western Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. I used the dimensions of a Walthers kit and scaled up to S scale. Works out to be about 18 inches high and 18 inches long, and 3 in diameter PVC pipe is just about perfect. Thus I am constructing one with six silos and am using artist board for the elevator sides and auger housing and Tichy windows. Model Tech Studios sells appropriate dust collectors. It’s pretty simple really. The type of elevator you show would be way outside my ability to scratch build. Good luck!
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JackBohm said:
My layout project is going fairly well. I have long since decided on a small town/rural theme in the Midwest.
Does anyone know of a S scale grain elevator? Or would a modified HO scale one work?
I seek one along the lines of the one attached.

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Correction: Grandt Line windows.
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KTARR said:
I prefer the siloed style that dots the landscape everywhere in western Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. I used the dimensions of a Walthers kit and scaled up to S scale. Works out to be about 18 inches high and 18 inches long, and 3 in diameter PVC pipe is just about perfect. Thus I am constructing one with six silos and am using artist board for the elevator sides and auger housing and Tichy windows. Model Tech Studios sells appropriate dust collectors. It’s pretty simple really. The type of elevator you show would be way outside my ability to scratch build. Good luck!
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Not a bad idea, but the area I’m in has a mix of newer and older grain elevators. Plus the era I’m modeling- with a few anachronisms- is when the older style was more common.
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Rusty Traque said:
I had to go back to the 2014V2 Lionel catalog. Ive heard of some S gaugers adapting this rural grain elevator. It hails from the MPC days when it was offered as a kit.

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pardon my ignorance,but what is MPC?
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Model Products Corporation, usually known by its acronym, MPC, is an American brand and former manufacturing company of plastic scale model kits and pre-assembled promotional models of cars that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s.…
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MPC (who was owned by General Mills) owned Lionel from 1970-1986. Richard Kuhn bought the company in 1986.

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JackBohn, in my part of the fruited plain regarding grain elevators or "grain handling facilities" as the bigger, newer, modern facilities are known, there are all styles. The newer ones have concrete silos, some round, some are concrete oblong shaped with silo style corners and several holding tracks. The largest one I know of has their own GP9 era engines or something similar, to switch grain cars around. Full ones moved to the train make up tracks and empties shoved to the to the grain filling tracks. This facility services two rail roads. The IC/CP runs north/south while the TP&W runs east/west to Peoria, Ill. to the barges on the Ill. river. The TP&W will service several smaller grain elevators in the many small towns along the way that use the old style grain elavators that you pictured. There are a couple medium sized modern style facilities along the route, with a combination of concrete silos and new large round galvanized bins. These medium facilities also have their own older sorting engines. Then you have the UP that runs north/south that services the same assortment of sizes of grain facilities, including one very large operation that has a Y track from the main that goes out and around the grain handling facility and back to the main with the track in the opposite direction for a total of one mile of track. Then there are branch lines running all over to many small towns which all have the old style grain elevators. These leave your elevator or grain handling modeling ideas wide open. Anything would be appropriate in other words.

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Jack, and anyone else interested. Todd's Architectural Models is planning to do a custom to order run of one of their O scale factory buildings in S scale. Window and door styles and locations can be customized. The buildings can be 3 to 6 stories tall. Doug will accept orders through June 11th. The website is toddarchitecturalmodels.com. Doug requests expressions of interest by direct email at [email protected]. Footprint is about 9"x9".
It is between not often and never that we can special order S scale buildings.
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