Industrial objects anyone?

[railrunner112]

For my route I am building alot of different objects, now I have made a few industrial buildings; old factory's and such. sometimes abandoned sometimes active.. I thought why not show you guys what I made.
And does anyone have any interest in me uploading them? They are based on belgium and german factorys. The big mine down below is my former passion object of hasard cheratte.
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[commec61]

Those look great. I would love to add some of them to my route.

[frliss]

And does anyone have any interest in me uploading them?

They would be greatly appreciated.

Even though I have never created a route, I enjoy modifying routes. These items will be very useful.

Fred

[eric]

You can never have enough industrial buildings. Even if they don't quite fit to be right on the track, there's always a need for "one row back" filler to help it feel more like a city.

[frliss]

there's always a need for "one row back" filler

eric,

I’ll have to respectfully disagree with you on this one. I think they look very nice, and it’s clear a great deal of work went into them. Compared to what we currently have in the file library, they really do have that distinctive “European look.”

Fred

[railrunner112]

I think Eric meant that they are not made for trains to load freight, which is correct. None the less I shall work on snow and night textures if needed so they can be uploaded. Thanks for the feedback!

[pwillard]

I've ended up sharing some "training" projects I gave to myself as homework. We should all give it a try. With all the free and unrestricted tools we have now, there is almost no excuse.

[CSRX]

While these may not fit the bill for what I truly need, I do see similar structures packed in the old city sections, so the more the better!

[railrunner112]

Any info on what you need? I still need to make some more generic industry buildings and warehouses. Maybe I can make some that fit my route and yours

[qballbandit]

I agree with Eric. Even if not used as trackside scenery, to fill open land in urban industrial areas begs for these kinds of objects. Thank you sir - I vote YES!

[CSRX]

Any info on what you need? I still need to make some more generic industry buildings and warehouses. Maybe I can make some that fit my route and yours

Definitely need a few paper mill structures. Some photos though are hard to come by. A lot of the former Gilman Paper Mill in Gilman, VT is gone, and some of the structures on the Sappi Mill in Westbrook, ME are hard to find too, though it does look like finally, that Google Earth has a 3d rendering of the entire complex, so that helps a bit.

Of course, other structures would be things like Crawford Station, Willey Section House, and a few other old and crumbling structures.

[pwillard]

I started on it a while back... It's a major leap into the unknown.

[CSRX]

In reference to things needed.. These are just links to some useful photos through news articles and model railroad pages. Of course, lots of articles about the mills being shut down, or job lays offs, or demolished, and as someone that worked in several paper mills before getting hired on with the railroad, it makes me sad to see.

Gilman Paper Company.
Gilman Historic Site - 2000's
Gilman Paper Mill Site Targeted For Power Build-Out | Business | caledonianrecord.com
V1 – Gilman, VT – Northern New England Scenic Model Railroad

Sappi Paper Mill (S.D. Warren Paper)
Sappi to permanently close PM9 at Westbrook mill, Maine - Papnews
Sappi Fine Paper North America Announces $2.5M Coater Re-build Capital Project at its Westbrook Mill
Gorgeous aerial view of the Sappi Paper Mill in Maine, Industrial Stock Footage ft. factory & manufacturing - Envato

Crawfords Station: Due note, this is not the original paint work. MEC had a faded green and gray paint job.
Crawfords Station, Crawford, NH - Google Search

Not many photos of the Willey Brook Section House online, without being tied to Facebook..

[railrunner112]

Gilman Paper Company.
Gilman Historic Site - 2000's
Gilman Paper Mill Site Targeted For Power Build-Out | Business | caledonianrecord.com
V1 – Gilman, VT – Northern New England Scenic Model Railroad

The gillman paper company buildings do look alot like the industrial buildings that I need in my route which has a portion with alot of textile factorys in similair long buildings. Once I finish up my works in progress I might look into it.

Anyhow I am still making the buildings ready for packaging and I am testing them in Open Rails at this moment. Except for the catenary lines every building is self made.
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[CSRX]

That is the good thing about the paper mills built in the early 1900's, and weren't really changed much over time considering how small of a location they had. So no worries, I still have 23 rail miles left to even get to that point for the small little paper mill.