Mill Facility

The mill has been a long project and over the course of the project things keep changing.  It was originally going to cover a lot of ground with a few tracks for staging empties and fulls, a track for the local switcher, and pull through track for the elevator unloading.

This mill build actually started based on this set up and elevator (Walthers Kit), transfer building (PikeStuff), large warehouse/manufacturing building (PikeStuff), loading dock(Micro Engineering), and office(Micro Engineering).

This is where the mill stayed for almost 9 months.

In those nine months we chose to run a point to point layout instead of a loop which changed the placement of the mainline and siding for this area.  The mill land ended up swapping with the fuel facilities for this section of the layout and the buildings needed to be rearranged to fit the area available.

This is what we had settled on as a building arrangement.  There are a few things that we were not happy about with this arrangement, but we did not want to start over with the mill so we were happy enough.

Today I finally started to finish up the buildings on the facility and in the process of the finishing I was playing around with spacing again.  I have finally found a building layout that I am happy with again.

The finalized layout has the buildings back into an L shape and the area in the corner of the L we have decided to make into a concrete patio that we will be able to put a few picnic tables and benches.  The area will be great of adding workers taking lunch or coffee break.   

The mill still has a long way to go.  Lots of details to add, parking lots, sidewalks, bushes, roof details, lighting, interior of the office, and weathering.