Rail served Concrete products plant?

[denveroutlaws06]

the cement rail tie plant  (the first image) used to ship out ties for BNSF.

[leighant]

Any indication that any of these plants received or shipped by rail?

[denveroutlaws06]

here is a pic of rail tie plant that used to be in Denver.

https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.786543,-104.994712&spn=0.003801,0.006539&t=h&z=18

 a plant up the street that makes highway overpass sections

https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.799948,-105.009057&spn=0.0038,0.006539&t=h&z=18

and a plant that makes pipes and culverts. zoom in for a better view

https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.867514,-104.878364&spn=0.005369,0.013078&t=h&z=17

second pipe and culvert plant.

https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.552248,-105.04068&spn=0.003814,0.006539&t=h&z=18

[leighant]

Caps from certain Elmer's Super Glue containers resemble concrete box culverts when arranged so you only see into the end with the rectangular hollow space.  These are for N.  For HO-- would be a smaller culvert.  When a city needs to install several miles of concrete sanitary or drainage sewers, transportation of the commensurate quantity by rail becomes practical. 

 

I plan a city street and utility service facility on my layout which can receive large shipment of various supplies on a "project basis" (NOT random car-card generated)  Over a dozen operating sessions there might be 2 or 3 dozen gondolas of culvert delivered.  At other times, the facility would receive multiple carloads of utility poles, and on a one or two car-at-a-time basis, cable reels, chlorine for water purification, even a rare heavy-duty electrical transformer.

Not exactly a concrete products plant.  A block from my bedroom when I growing up in the 1950s, there was a small company called Houston Art Stone that made concrete bird baths, benches, lawn furniture, sculpture, etc.  They backed up to a spur that entered a major lumber company.  I think they may have received bagged concrete and plaster by boxcar.  I saw white dust constantly at the railspur adjacent to them and at their trackside entrance.

[Motley]

You could build a bunch of background buildinigs to make it appear larger.

[lone geep]

Thanks for the ideas and pictures . Keep them coming. I only have around 4 square feet for one. My modelling plan is to have Walther's Medusa Cement as the cement receiving and have another track for unloading rebar and loading up the products. I'll just try to make it look like the main buildings are in the background. Thanks again. 

["JaBear"]

lone geep

could rebar also be hauled in by rail?

Gidday, here's some examples here.....

http://www.krunk.org/~joeshaw/pics/ttx/ttjx/ttjx80437.jpg

http://www.krunk.org/~joeshaw/pics/cr/gons/cr609169+ns194796-rebar-load.jpg

http://0.tqn.com/d/modeltrains/1/0/k/C/-/-/TTJX82091.jpg

http://www.krunk.org/~joeshaw/pics/ttx/ttjx/ttjx80383.jpg

And here's how wm3798 modeled a gondola load   http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/204175.aspx

Cheers, the Bear

[leighant]

Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Freight Tariff 1517-F, issued June 11, 1973.

Austin Texas businesses with no spur served by team track: Precast Concrete Products Co

San Antonio, Texas- F. Redondo Co. Stone Cutting & Ornamental Concrete Works w railroad spur west side of MoPac.  corner San   Marcos and Poplar.

[BATMAN]

Absolutely! This plant is just South of Vancouver and it is massive. It incorporates rail, trucks and as you can see barges. You would need a large room just for the plant.

You could model a small operation where they simply ship raw cement and you could do it justice on a layout. However once you get into shipping finished structures that is a different beast altogether. You would be modeling the plant that have tracks as part of it. Not modeling a railroad that has a cement plant on it.

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Some things are just too big for our home layouts. Just my opinion.

[lone geep]

I have been thinking of adding a concrete products plant on my railroad. I would receive powdered cement in by rail and ship out concrete girders and culverts on flatcars. Are there any prototypes for this kind of operation? And if so, could rebar also be hauled in by rail?