After somehow surviving a holiday back to the Antipodes (i.e South of Christchurch) I'm now trying to mentally gird my loins before the assault on all the work that has backed up in my absence.
Anyway, on my travels I came across this wee pearler of a building located at the north end of the Temuka yard:
I'm picking it was once the Temuka Flour Mill (no sh*t, Sherlock):
Anyway, what attracted me to the building (apart from the "multimedia" approach to its construction) was what looked like a loading facility on the south end of the building:
I couldnt get close enough to have a better look (these shots were taken from the adjoining road crossing), but to me it looks like there could have been some form of chute loading arrangement under there, or at the very least a loading dock and doors. Plus those fire escapes would make a neat detail on a model.
The middle "tower" building looks rather dramatic in this setting, and I think the raised concrete ridge on the roof is the sign of an internal firewall?
The lettering on the sides definitely adds to the look as well.
The final building on the right has an interesting roofline that complements the rest of the complex, and I have a weird feeling that the tower on the left replicates the angle on grain augers I have seen on farms in the area...so maybe this is the receival area? Plus it looks as if the rail siding carried onto here as well.
Anyway, a neat complex of buildings that wouldnt look out of place on a shelf layout as well as providing a few different spots to shunt wagons to and from.
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Nice one to view, scale dimension & build for the forthcoming Journal NZ120 Competition layout - "close by" you also have the grain storage tower etc at Waimate, all the great small Victorian/Edwardian industrial buildings in Oamaru, the small dairy factory at Ashburton, plus its flour storage facilties and the old mill at the hamlet just north of Temuka (Orari) - have a few pix of some of these so will post to this chat at some stage for those interested.
would like to see some of those pix greg. i am wondering if anyone has photos of the old cheese factory at Tuamarina on picton-blenheim line. actually any cheese factory would do, as long as it is small in size. nice shots am fett of this collection of buildings. would make a great kitbash.good project to tackle on kitchen table over winter. suitable cloth and working surface required to protect table of course. funnily enough i have just been in to local hobby shop today and purchased NZ model journal as well as american N scale Mag.( It had interesting article on weathering industrial structures-rusty roof,etc)I must have known something!
word for today: ONSESED
keeping it in the family(Inc-st)
Given my limited luck on uploads to blogs, I have posted a few pix of the Waimate "Empress" flour mill, an Oamaru baker and the Midland Coop dairy factory in Ashburton on the NZ120 group site - I also have pix of a rather neat little ex-cheese factory between Whakatane & Opotiki and the cheese factory at Henley - will be sketching up plans for all of these, as they are intended to feature on the Pendarves Branch modular layout in the fulness of time - happy to share this data - some of the dairy company histories have pictures of the older (smaller) plants, which can give enough deatil to draw plans from.
OBTW, my brother lives just accross the road from that Temuka plant - the town has some other quite neat small buildings too.
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