Category: Industrial Buildings

Front Avenue Industrial District Plans Added

With a nearly eight block continuous facade, the Front Avenue Industrial District in Columbus Georgia offers a range of buildings featuring late 19th Century commercial and industrial architecture. Constructed between 1867 and 1902, the buildings feature a similarity of scale and consistent use of material and detailing that create a sense of belonging often missing in industrial scenery created over a longer span of time. This offers a palette of buildings for the model railroader to choose from for a cohesive industrial background. Check out the massive collection of 13 plans.

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Building 12 Plans Added

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Building 12 is of interest to model railroaders of the 20th Century in part to its modular nature. It could be selectively compressed, or even enlarged, without destroying the architectural qualities of the building. It would also be an opportunity to work with mold-making, since the repetitive architectural patterns lend themselves to multiple plaster cast reproductions assembled together after casting. Check out the plans.

Silver Creek Mine Tipple Plans Added

The Silver Creek mine tipple would be a great centerpiece to any western railroad, to make it a showstopper you could model the aerial tram that delivered ore from the mine to the tipple. Check out the plans.

Live Oak Creamery plans

East side & north end of the Live Oak Creamery building photographed in 1980 by Jane Lidz

Built in 1908, the Live Oak Creamery was the first butter factory in the Gilroy area, at the center of Santa Clara county’s dairy industry in the early 20th Century. Before this, farmer had to ship their products to other areas to be turned into butter.

This is a great small industry that offers plenty of opportunity to customize it for a unique location on your railroad.

Kennecott Copper Machine Shop offers scale modelers opportunity

Built in 1916, the Kennecott Copper Corporation machine shop is small enough to model but large enough to offer detail and charm to your model railroad layout. Put it at the front of the table and you could make the roof removable and detail the shop floor. Check out our page of plans for the Kennecott Copper Corporation machine shop.

Plans for Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works, Erecting Shop added

The Erecting Shop, located at Spruce & Market Streets, in Paterson, New Jersey is the oldest of the structures surviving from the complex which formed the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.