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I have found that the Internet does not offer much in the line of artcles or drawings for modelers, per se. However, you can find all kinds of interesting structures on-line by searching such topics as "warehouses" or "tilt up buildings." You will be directed to the building contactors' and suppliers' websites, which feature a lot of pictures and often give general information on dimensions. There are also a couple of "grain elevator" sites and the BNSF on-line grain elevator directory that shows pictures of hundreds of elevators and associated structures. If I don't have the actual dimensions, I "scale" the structures I want to model by using known points of reference such as doors and windows or pictures that show an adjacent truck or freight car. Sometimes you can also do things like counting concrete blocks or courses of bricks to obtain a general idea of the height of a building. Over the years Model Railroader and most of the other railroad hobby magazines have carried articles along with dimensional drawings. I have clipped dozens of them and placed them in a file of possible future projects. I do the same thing when I find a picture on the Internet of an interesting looking building. Hope this helps. John
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