building a coors brewery from scratch

[D&RGWRR476]

Cuyama,

Thanks for the info.

 

[cuyama]

According to the magazine index on this site, there was an article on Coors' railroad operations in Trains magazine in April 2006. I used "coors" as the search term.

[D&RGWRR476]

I have been thinking about building this brewery as well. Years back, Trains Magazine had a good article about railroad operations at the brewery. Unfortunately, I threw that issue away.

I have not been able to find the article using the Trains Mag search engine, as well as Google. Does anyone know which issue this article was in?

[dstarr]

The sheet styrene makes butt joints at the corners of the building.  Adding a piece of square styrene strip to the inside of the corners will add much strength to your model.  The plastic welder cement doesn't fill gaps much so you want to get the edges of the styrene sheet straight and square and close fitting. 

   Floors do much to beef up the structure and keep it square.  Even if you don't plan on detailed interiors, a second floor improves the look of the building.  Without the second floor, the view in the windows shows a gaping chasm down into the basement. 

   Clamping helps.  I placed a square wood block inside the corners and then C-clamped the walls and floor to the block.  This helped keep the building square while the cement dried.

[jfallon]

Since it is no doubt a very large building, you might consider making a "core" out of Gatorfoam, then glueing the styrene walls onto that. Gatorfoam is similar to foam core board used in art projects, but the laminate is more rigid and water resistant. Micromark sells it, or you can do a web search for other suppliers. Having a core like this helps keep the walls from bowing and flexing.

                                                                               John

[Colorado_Mac]

don't forget the mesa in the background

[GMILL47]

I worked there for quite a few years.  Rails run up both sides of the loading area, the south side you don't even see. The north side runs under the building and comes out where the visitors can see it.   Each spot or two has rails on tranfer tables so they can move the cars out .  The tables have two sets of rails so when pulled in the engine/cars can pass by. There's two yards just east of the Brewery and a much larger one about 3/4 mile to the east.  Coors used to have their own power plant but they sold it.  It's still there and coal cars are brought in for it as well as the insulated freight cars for the Brewery.

[jrbernier]

  Brace you styrene wall section with 1/8" or 1/4" styrene square strips.  This will add the 'rigid' quality that you will need,  Framing out the floor/roof/walls will make getting the structure assembled nice & 'square'!  Build the base & the roof as sections.  Then build the walls and attach them to the base & roof.

  That Coors plant is huge!  Even the plant railroad yard is bigger that most yards on home layouts.

Jim

 

[bnsf0823]

I am in the process of modeling a coors brewery.  I have some pics that i am using to prototype.  I did a cardboard mockup or the building but before i really get started i was wondering if anyone had some good tips on glueing wall sections together evenly and with some sturdiness.  I am going to use .40 styrene for most of the builing.  Would it work best to just glue the wall sections to the front of the styrene used for the floor or use styrene strips along the floor and glue the wall sections to the top of the floor against those strips.  Hope that doesnt sound to confusing.  Also if anyone knows of any videos or books that are good for kitbashing or scratch building please let me know.  Thanks scooter