Doing some research of grain elevators for my town of Montrose I have been able to locate several old images of the elevator owned and operated by Graden Flour Mills that resided in Durango back in the early 1900's. Good friend Peter sent me a link where I was able to download a drawing of the front elevation of this mill and so with this ammunition I set about to scratch build (as close as possible) this mine.
Having the almost scale drawing made it a lot easier so the plan was to make each section bit by bit following drawings I made to try and keep the variations to the size of each to as close to scale as I could.
Fortunately I had purchased some Evergreen Clap Board Siding several weeks before Covid 19 lock-down and with bits of corrugated and V Grove siding I had in stock set about construction.
Here are just a few of the mill under construction.
The main building are complete ready for placement on the RR however there is quite a ways to go yet before this can take place.
In the meantime I have started to scratch build another building and this will be for Montrose Lumber to be placed well in Montrose.
Thanks for coming to take a look.
Rod.
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