How Do You Make A Cement Plant For Model Train Layout?
“I’m here to tell you about making a train diorama in HO scale. The Phoenix Cement Company here was actually constructed in 1959 to make concrete for the Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona. This is made from a commercial kit and we made it to fit our area. We were able to take the buildings and move them around. You can see the little round kiln in the front and all the storage areas. That is actually a much larger facility but it represents the area very well. You can see all the vehicles and people in the area and a train sitting there ready to pick up the cement to go into hopper cars. Up on the hill we have the town of Hopewell which was only built as a transfer point where the ore was dropped down to the Hopewell tunnel and taken to a transfer point and transferred to the standard gage cars down into Carpdale. That town, of course, no longer exists but it had its own school, there was even a little rail car that ran up there from Carpdale that carried people back and forth, and I
