ore docks

[Anonymous]

i am trying to find plans for ore docks lake supieror want to scarth build in n scale

[ndbprr]

I don't know of any but it shouldn't be too hard using pictures. They are all built with the structural work on the outside so the bins are smooth on the inside. You should be able to scale just about any picture that has a known reference like an ore car or a person in it. I believe MR had plans for the PRR Sodus Point ore dock on Lake Ontario a couple of years ago that could be a starting point for you.

[Anonymous]

Thank you but unsure of how to scale from photo only went to school to eat lunch or slept though that lesson but will have a crack at it.

[ndbprr]

It is very simple. If you have a picture of an ore car and you know it is 20' long in real life and 2" in the picture. Each inch in the picture represents 10'. So if you measured a beam and it was 1/8 of an inch it would be 1/8 of 10' or 1.25' wide or 16". Now you can count the number of 16" beams and the distance between them and draw your own plan.

[Anonymous]

Cheers muchly I will have to sort out all my images and see what I can use

[Anonymous]

Try getting the book "Great Northern Railway: Ore Docks of Lake Superior Photo Archive" by Douglass D. Addison, Sr. There are a few drawings and plenty of pictures of the Great Northern's ore docks at Allouez near Superior, WI. It will help greatly.

[csmith9474]

You may want to try to raise LSImodeler and see if he can get some shots of the dock in Marquette, MI for ya.

[tjsmrinfo]

not sure of the issue, but there was an article in MR sometime back, just before walthers came out with the ore dock kit. try a search in the index of magazines using great lakes ore dock, or just ore dock.


tom

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot guys. I found a copy of the G&N ore dock book cnw885 menton at amazon. Should be here in a 2or 3 weeks. But still going to have a play with the photo idea. We will see how close I can get to the book. Nothing like a bit of a challge. Once again thanks fella,still have a lot of questions but one thing at a time for now.