Brickyard for an Industry

[Anonymous]

If anyone is considering a brickyard for your layout I might be able to answer any questions you have. I worked at a brickyard in the 70's and I just finished modeling one on my layout.[:)]

[Anonymous]

Very nice work!

How do you "operate" the Brick yard as a industry with railroad?

[Anonymous]

4 different types of cars are used for my brickyard; Covered hoppers are used to bring in sand and red iron oxide dust, they also can be loaded outbound with a dust by-product from the crushed ganister rock. Boxcars are used to ship out the various types of bricks being made. They also can be used to bring new equipment to the plant. Open hoppers are used to ship larger rock to other plants, since my brickyard has its own quarry. and Tank cars are used for Propane and Fuel oil which both are used to fire the kilns to bake the brick.
Hope this answers your Question.[:)]

[Anonymous]

Thanks! It sure does!

[dknelson]

Check out this old photo of the famous Purington Brickworks in Knox IL (now known as East Galesburg). At one time this was the world'd largest brickyard. It was on the Santa Fe mainline but was served by a spur from the CB&Q.
Dave Nelson

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://home.grics.net/~tbould/pics/By1905.jpg&imgrefurl=http://home.grics.net/~tbould/Sites.html&h=138&w=218&sz=6&tbnid=SndNTKxIKewJ:&tbnh=64&tbnw=101&start=17&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpurington%2Bbrick%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

[Anonymous]

Musicman, perhaps showing my ignorance but I thought that clay was still a key ingredient of brick. If so, was your brickyard located at a clay site, or was this another incoming item?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dknelson

Check out this old photo of the famous Purington Brickworks in Knox IL (now known as East Galesburg). At one time this was the world'd largest brickyard. It was on the Santa Fe mainline but was served by a spur from the CB&Q.
Dave Nelson

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://home.grics.net/~tbould/pics/By1905.jpg&imgrefurl=http://home.grics.net/~tbould/Sites.html&h=138&w=218&sz=6&tbnid=SndNTKxIKewJ:&tbnh=64&tbnw=101&start=17&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpurington%2Bbrick%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

Another busted link.

[Anonymous]

Not sure what type of bricks your talking about but,This brickyard makes a silica brick made from ganaster rock which was quarried on site.no clay was used that I can recall. I mixed mud (for the bricks) for about a week.And I don't remember any clay going into the mix. We used a Red Iron oxide dust, came in bags, Lime, crushed ganister, water, a glucose type solution that was like syrup. Hope this clears it up.[:)]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rails5

Musicman, perhaps showing my ignorance but I thought that clay was still a key ingredient of brick. If so, was your brickyard located at a clay site, or was this another incoming item?

[dknelson]

Sorry about a busted link on my prior post about the Purington Brick works in East Galesburg (a/k/a Knox, a/k/a Yost) Illinois.
Try these (here's hoping...) Dave Nelson

http://bluebullets.knox.k12.il.us/rmes/history2/history1.html

http://www.historicalbricks.com/brick_history.html

http://home.grics.net/~tbould/Pure.html

[Anonymous]

Just another photo of my brickyard. I've added 5 more kilns after this picture was taken.

[Anonymous]

Clay traditionally was used in brickmaking, I believe. I used to live in Haverstraw, NY, a town on the Hudson River with a rich history of brickmaking.

In 1906, part of that rich history was written when overzealous clay mining caused a 100 foot high embankment to slide down on the business district,
killing around 20 people. A fire broke out that is said to have threatened the entire village but was extinguished by a chance snowstorm.

Wayne

[jrbarney]

For those whom are interested, there are four relevant article citations at the Index of Magazines:
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=brickyard&MAG=ANY
Plenty of material for your outhouses ! Remember, tomorrow celebrates St. Patrick, patron saint of ceramics.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by musicmanL888

Just another photo of my brickyard. I've added 5 more kilns after this picture was taken.

When I click on this link I end up on MY photo album instead of yours:

http://community.webshots.com/scripts/controlPanel.fcgi

Any idea how I can get around this. I'd like to see your brickyard.

Thanks . . .

[Anonymous]

CBQ-GUY updated my profile sorry for the mix up. should be able to view my photos at
http://community.webshots.com/user/musicmanL888

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by musicmanL888

CBQ-GUY updated my profile sorry for the mix up. should be able to view my photos at
http://community.webshots.com/user/musicmanL888

Got em!

Thanks. VERY impressive.