Busy putting together a Walthers ADM concrete grain elevator and it seem strange that it includes doors very high on the tower walls that lead to nowhere. No external scafolding or stairs at the doors. I did a google search and looked at a lot of grain elevators and could not find a single example with door placement like this.
Could be an emergency exit but you would need a loooong ladder or a parachute to exit safely. I have some ladders left over from another kit build and I am thinking I might add them to the wall to help the doors make sense.
Any ideas on why the doors are placed up high on a blank wall?
Paul D
N scale Washita and Santa Fe RailroadSouthern Oklahoma circa late 70's
At first, I thought of my Grandfather's boyhood home in Minnesota.
The Snowfall on their farm could easily get deeper than the first floor of the farmhouse. So there was a door on the second floor that during the summer went nowhere. ( They also had a two story outhouse. No, really. I have seen the picture's )
But in your case I suspect the door's to nowhere are for Bridge / walkway's to other building's in the complex. If you should choose to expand.
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Here's one with a door, and "nowhere to go":
Here's another with several:
And I saw several more. None of them were "regular" doors, like on the model. But doors, still.
I think they're for hoisting "stuff" up on a rope (rather than carrying it up stairways).
A problem with the Walthers model is that the doors are all above a large shed roof, which would make hoisting stuff up a royal pain.
You COULD brick in the openings--they can't use them anymore. Or you could add a walkway over to the end of the building so they could get an opening to the ground for hoisting.
Ed
In both of Ed's photos you can see the trolley beam for a hoist to be used for lifting equipment to the opening. The top photo the beams are painted blue and in the bottom photo you can see the shadow of the "stick" projecting out from the building.
There 'ya go!
Cheers, Ed
While I did use Walthers concrete grain elevator, and the add-on siloes (and also added-on some scratchbuilt stuff and their Red Wing Milling plant, too), mine is not a grain elevator. It does have two of those "take a hike...and mind the first step" doors, though, like this one, with a hoist for machinery...
...and this one, on the far building, with a long ladder to some rooftop machinery below, and a short ladder providing access to the adjacent roof...
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Wayne
The model does have a wider door with a hoist but it also has several people size doors with no hoist. I suppose you could hoist something up anyway. Certainly looks strange.