Bell Canning

So I took a little detour in the yard construction in order to add a building right along the edge of the layout because I wanted to do one where you could see the interior folks working on things.  I came up with Bell Canning.  As with everything on the NRTL it is fictitious and I simply envisioned what a small canning company would need in terms of rail traffic.  Product comes in from the field via truck, is washed / shucked / canned in unseen parts of the building and a rail car brings in the rolled steel to make the cans and boxcars will depart with cases of canned goods.  I will put a piece of acrylic in front of the building to keep it from getting knocked off as well as the train cars that will be going into the plant.

The project is a kitbash, using a Micro-trains wood military barracks kit and Walthers brick wall sections.

After cutting the wall section to size I sprayed it with Rustoleum
primer.  I followed up with a whitewash of  alcohol diluted off white
craft paint.  It's pretty easy to come out with a god looking mortared
brick wall with this technique as long as you blot the white mortar and
don't rub it off.

The 2 side walls of the barracks were splice together to make one long
wall.  Here it's glued up and waiting on paint.

After paint and the upper and lower section are joined.  Still going to add roof trusses
and a bunch more detail.  The windows were glazed with crystal clear.

Pre-lighting.  The roof is just cardboard
with strip wood seems.  Painted and colored
with chalks.  The truck receiving dock is just
scrap walls I had with a lentil added to the
top.  The roof over dock building is just
more cardboard, masking tape and paint.

First light installed and a lot of details have been added.  Another
light needs to be added to the other side.

I really like the way the chain lift turned out.  They would use it to lift
the sheet rolled steel out of the gondola cars and then the rolls would be
moved into the canning press machines in another room. I made a roll of the steel
in the photo.  I need to make some more.  I have a lot of scrap box parts laying around.
the scene and I made a furnace/incinerator for the warehouse as well
to keep the crews warm on the cold New Rahel winter nights.