Silos of the Train Show

A few models at the train show caught my eye especially those models that are models I plan to add to my new garden railroad.  I'm always looking for good ideas which is one of the reasons why I bring my camera to these shows.

First, I plan to add an old coaling silo to our garden railroad but I need to come up with a design.  My design doesn't need to be fully operational condition because I want it to be more like an old abandoned coaling silo...  I think, anyway.  I know my O scale railroad will be a model of an operational silo but the garden railroad's silo will be more of a symbolic thing from my past.  Most of the silos at the train show were grain silos but these grain silos are very similar to the old coaling silos of the early 20th century.  

I'm thinking that I want to design four or five silos in a single line rather than the double silos seen in these photos.  I also want to keep the design rather simple.  

The other type of model that constantly caught my eye was bridges.  I have always liked bridges but I'm interested in ideas for my garden railroad as well as my future O scale railroad so I purposely wanted photos of all the interesting bridges.  The next blog entry will be about bridges I saw at the show.