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JohnDRGW answered first: “Walthers has several cement
plant kits. Click on the links: Valley Cement Plant at
and Medusa Cement silos
”
Alan (LKandO, a frequent forum visitor) also recommended
Medusa Cement as “the default go-to cement plant. Used in
one form or another on countless layouts.”
Then Hylik mentioned that he works in N scale, and the
responses followed that idea:
Alan suggested he look at
and
and create a saved search on eBay.
Another reply observed: “Look at other types of silos and
industrial buildings, because kits not labeled 'cement plant'
can be combined into what you want. If you build every kit
straight out of the box, your layout looks like Waltherville and
Katotown, and doesn't have that individual stamp.”
Highway70 pointed out that Walthers made Medusa Cement
in both N and HO, and that the silos of the HO model can be
modified into fairly accurate pieces for an N scale model of
a cement distribution plant located in West Sacramento, CA.
(On the forum thread, he posted a Bing Maps link that shows
the plant.)
Forum regular Rob Spangler asked for more particulars and
offered some ideas:
“Do you want a plant that produces cement from raw materi-
als, or one that handles local distribution?
“If the former, try my old blog post on a plant I kitbashed out of
various components
.
“Out of the box, the Walthers Medusa kit is a local distribution
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facility, receiving hopper loads of already-produced cement
from elsewhere and storing them for future use in finished
concrete.”
Hylik said he wanted to built a plant that produces cement
from raw materials. “Also, I found this:
,” he said. “Very instructional.”
Dave Branum asked, “Do you have a location in mind for your
layout? I imagine plants look different in different parts of the
country. I'd look on Google Earth or Bing Maps and view the
1: How do you fit a large cement production plant into a
layout? The proposed site is at the right side, just a little
above the turntable on the plan. The grid has 12" squares.
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