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Danny Head
Fireman
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 Posted - 06/14/2012 : 7:49:29 PM
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I have started a new project based on photos of the Detour Feed Mill in Carroll County Maryland. Here is the link to the photos of the mill as it was in the early 1900's as well as the way it was in 2007.
http://www.millpictures.com/mills.php?millid=1401
This will be a very slow build (I'm allowing myself one year), so there may be long periods of no progress. I plan to build the diorama as it may have been in the 1960's. This would be without the filled in porch and perhaps I will add back the covered truck loading bay that appears to have been removed in the modern photos. I also plan to include the coal dump trestle into the diorama.
The building alone will be 42'x125' in HO scale. The structure will be 58" at the top of the tower. So, with the diorama added, this will be a massive model when finished. |
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Danny Head
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 06/14/2012 : 7:56:05 PM
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Here are some progress photos:
So far, I have drawn the plans, built a form for the foundation, carved and painted the stones. This is my first attempt at carving plaster.
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George D
Moderator
USA
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Posted - 06/14/2012 : 8:07:41 PM
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This is going to be interesting to follow. I never would have guessed that was your first attempt at carving plaster - she looks great.
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railman28
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 06/14/2012 : 8:14:07 PM
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| Yes. the wall looks great. |
It's Only Make Believe
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mark_dalrymple
Crew Chief
New Zealand
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Posted - 06/14/2012 : 8:21:09 PM
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It find it very satisfying carving your own stonework. Yours looks fantastic Danny! I'm looking forward to your build.
Cheers, Mark. |
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Dave S
Engine Wiper
USA
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Posted - 06/14/2012 : 8:37:24 PM
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Danny,
This should be another great build. I'll be following along.
Thanks for posting the prototype photos of the structure. Another reminder to take a camera with wherever you travel. That structure you have seen in the same location for a quarter of a century will be gone before you know it and then you'll be wishing you had taken the opportunity when it was still there to get your photos and perhaps even measure it.
Later, Dave S. Tucson, AZ |
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Danny Head
Fireman
USA
1752 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2012 : 8:48:59 PM
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Dave, you are so right concerning taking your camera and getting a photo while you can. In 2008, I stopped my car in Tennessee to take photos of an old country store. I drove back two weeks later with my tape measure (200 miles away) only to find a bulldozer sitting where the store had been.
I was able to use the photos to draw the plans and build the model here on the forum. But, I had to estimate all the measurements. Had I not taken photos, the store would be just a memory.
Thanks everyone for the kudos and encouragement on my current project.
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dallas_m
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 06/15/2012 : 03:34:59 AM
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Hey, wow ... déjà vu in Detour! A friend of mine built this structure in N scale many years ago ... he had worked at the mill when he was a teen. I helped do the scenery on the dio and have many fond years of some modeling friendships back then. We both lived in Carroll County at the time, but he has since moved to Florida.
Really looking forward to seeing you work your magic on this one! Beautiful work on the foundation ... |
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Danny Head
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 06/15/2012 : 06:01:25 AM
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| Dallas, do you know if there any additional photos available? I'm guessing, but it appears that a part of the building in the rear has been removed (maybe where a small feed chute came from the small tower to a covered loading bay). I would also guess that the area in the foreground of the 1900 photo is a coal dump trestle???? any photos of that? |
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dallas_m
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 06/15/2012 : 06:12:24 AM
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Danny --
I just sent Jim an email to see if he has any old snaps ... meanwhile, there isn't much in Detour, Maryland, so a google image search of "detour, maryland" (and/or add "mill" or "feed mill") will bring up a handful of photos.
The town was served by the Western Maryland Ry, so searching for WM albums that include Detour might provide a few more. |
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 06/15/2012 : 07:43:21 AM
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| This is going to be a terrific project, Danny, and you are off to a great start on the foundation. |
Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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BandO Boy
Section Hand
USA
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Posted - 06/15/2012 : 09:29:19 AM
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| Danny - What a wonderful structure and amazing start on that foundation!... will be anxiously awaiting updates... am somewhat familiar w/ Carroll County as I've researched several mill complexes to model along its border in neighboring Howard and Frederick Counties... a very fertile area for modeling... enjoy! |
All the best -
Jim
Scotch Plains, NJ
"Proud of our past and confident in our future." - Superintendent, The Old Main Line, 1960 |
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dnhman
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 06/15/2012 : 09:35:31 AM
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| Danny great start,The foundation looks great. It will be an interesting build to follow, |
Cheers!, Joe |
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dallas_m
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 06/15/2012 : 12:40:48 PM
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Danny --
Jim sent the photo above (which was actually more than twice this size) ... I can post a couple more zoomed-in crops closer to original size if desired. Here's a note from Jim:
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From Jim Coshun
I'm very excited to see this project being worked on from what I can tell so far, a very talented model builder.
The mill has a very special place in my heart having brought back so many fond memories of my grandfather "Jimmy" whom I'm named after. He ran that mill for 52 years.
Dallas, the work I did there was very little but the fun I had in that building was immense. My brother and I would take turns hauling each other on the bag carts.
I never added the rear section of the building. It was built very strange, rather than square to the rest of the building it kinda curved around the tracks, it was only used as storage and as I recall was never painted the gray as the rest of the building.
Jimmy always kept everything neat and clean as well as manicured around the outside, and from what it has become today I'm sure would bring a tear to his eye as it sometimes does to mine when I see it again!
Danny, good luck and please keep me posted!
And a couple snaps of the N scale version that Jim built in the 1990s depicting the mill as it stood c. 1955.
Danny -- Jim will be happy to tell you anything he knows about the mill ... check your email for contact info. Also, if you reply to my email I'll send the full-size version of that black-n-white photo. |
Edited by - dallas_m on 06/15/2012 12:46:39 PM |
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mabloodhound
Fireman
USA
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Danny Head
Fireman
USA
1752 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2012 : 7:49:09 PM
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Dallas and Dave...you guys are great! I had a chance to call Jim in Florida today and it was good to hear him recall playing in the mill as a child. It also cleared up a couple of things concerning the time in which the porch was enclosed, the coal dump trestle and the lean-to shed on the back. Oddly enough, I spent some time today on the internet trying to find a rear view and now Dave has found it !!!!!! Wow! Such power the internet provides the modeler..... something we couldn't take advantage of just a short tima ago. Thanks everyone!  |
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Detour Feed Mill Build
