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Dimboola station. This great photo was taken by my son Craig

Saturday 28 February 2015

Victorian grain storage drawings

Having been asked recently about drawings for Victorian grain storage facilities, I have decided to add some to these pages. Unfortunately I could not get the scanner to  talk to the laptop, so I resorted to taking photos. These drawings came from VicGrain, many years ago, when I inquired about drawings for silos. They are representative only, as at each site, the size of Oat sheds and steel bin silos varies in dimensions.
The first is  marked on the drawings as the Oat Shed, also used for bagged grain. There is one of these remaining at Horsham, right down the end of the Melbourne end of the yard.
Oat Shed Horsham (No longer in use)
End view
Side view
The above photograph shows the other silos associated with Horsham. One the right is a very large Williamstown type concrete vertical silo ( which has four smaller diameter verticals behind it). These serviced the flour mill, which part remains, just left of center. As a matter of interest, this second only to Nhill silo in size, which is the largest in the state.
To the left are five Ascom type steel grain bins. These are no longer used, as Grain Corp does not operate these bins, or rail siding any more.
Drawing for Ascom Jumbo.

The plans were scale 1/200. The diameter across the Ascom was 120mm, and height of bin to top of cap was 130mm. The Oat shed was 63mm wide and 41mm high. Use only as a guide, as for example, the Oat shed at Horsham is actually wider than the drawing, so is higher.
For the Williamstown silo, the following link to Eltham Model railway website, has large PDF to download.  http://www.elthammrc.org.au/scenery/162-victorian-grain-silos



PS. I also have drawings for South Australian concrete verticals an steel bins, to add later (Now added). It is interesting to note, that many concrete vertical silos in Queensland followed a very similar design to the SA ones.

 






 

11 comments:

  1. Thank you Andrew for the silo plans a big help for all VR modellers Malcolm Aldridge

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  2. That is OK. I have a few more somewhere, of different sized facilities.

    Andrew

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  3. Can I ask when you are going to show the South Australian concrete verticals plans.

    Greg

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  4. Hi Greg, have posted plans for the SA four cell verticals. Will add more later.
    Andrew

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  5. Great reading your stuff. I'm interested in the plans you posted 2012 of the Geelong type silos. The site you quoted - http://www2.nmit.vic.edu.au/~david/emrc2/resources/silos/Silo_Geelong_300dpi.gif - I cant gain excess. Been trying for days. Are you aware if it is still a valid address? Any ideas how I can get a copy that I can read. Here's hopefully. Steve

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  6. Hi Steve, I have added a photo reproduction of my plans. If you interested in modelling, one needs 110mm pipe plus 70mm pipe.
    To get the large gif off the site (which worked for me) you have to save to file, as it large and will not open directly.
    Andrew

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  7. Hi Andrew
    I am looking for the hight and diameter of the smaller ASCOM bins that were attached to the Geelong type silo at Sheep Hills in the Wimmera. I note you have plans for the jumbo ASCOM, but I think the one I am interested in is slightly smaller. My guess is that it is about 45 - 60 feet wide and about the same hight.
    Cheers
    Richard

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  8. Hi Richard, I have added two more drawings, of a Geelong with annex. These are similar to Sheep Hills, which is a double Geelong with annex on each side.
    A while ago I measured the base and first ring, of one of the bins at Dimboola. It scaled out at 160mm diameter and about 150mm to the top of the walls not including roof.
    Andrew

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  9. Many thanks for the information and drawings Andrew. Your 160mm in Ho is the 45 foot that I guessed it would be. Now on with building the model. Do you know if anyone has built a HO ASCO bin and what materials they may have used, especially the roof.
    Cheers Richard

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  10. Many thanks Andrew - I appreciate your help
    Richard

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  11. Hi Richard, Just for everybody, you can purchase 160mm diameter pipe. I think I managed to get the plumbers where I use to work to cut a length off. For the weld lines, have to scribe in a channel to place some round plastic strip. Evergreen go down to 0.015". Superglue works, but would be better also to obtain some accelerator, which causes the superglue set instantly. The cone roof, test with card first to get the diameter correct when you cut out a section to pull together, forming the cone. Andrew

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