Silos of the Train Show

A few models at the train show caught my eye especially those models that are models I plan to build and 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.

One of the buildings I plan to add to our garden railroad is an old coaling silo but I need to come up with a design.  Right now I'm going on rather faint memories of a coaling silo in a nearby town when I was a child.  My design doesn't need to be of a 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 so it really doesn't need to be perfectly realistic nor perfectly to scale.  Actually, an F scale coaling silo would still be tremendous so I will probably scale it down to avoid it being overwhelming in my rather small garden railroad.  

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 so it is worth taking a closer look at these silos too.  

I'm thinking that I want to design four or five silos in a single line rather than the double lines of 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.