Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Glacier Gravel Company Kit - 933-3062

Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Glacier Gravel Company Kit - 933-3062 creates a complete stone-crushing and loading facility for an HO scale quarry, mine, railroad maintenance operation, or heavy-industrial district. Based on rock crushers used since the 1940s, this substantial trackside structure processes aggregate and loads it into railroad cars or trucks. The completed model measures 9-3/8 x 11 x 10-1/4" (23.8 x 27.9 x 26cm). Browse the complete Walthers Cornerstone model railroad buildings and structures collection for additional HO scale industries.

Railroads consume large quantities of crushed stone for ballast, drainage, roadbed construction, and maintenance projects. Similar processing plants also supply aggregate for highways, concrete production, construction projects, and industrial customers. Glacier Gravel Company provides a destination for loaded and empty hopper cars while adding a highly visible source of freight traffic to a transition-era or modern model railroad.

Build an HO Scale Aggregate Processing Facility

The Walthers Cornerstone Glacier Gravel Company includes the major structures and loading features needed to represent a working stone-processing operation:

• HO scale stone crusher, washer, and loading facility
• Based on aggregate-processing plants used from the 1940s to the present
• Suitable as a standalone rock crusher or part of a larger quarry or mine
• Can also represent a slag-recovery operation near a steel mill
• Main building accommodates two railroad tracks
• Detailed loading bin inside the main structure
• Up to three loading pockets for hoppers, gondolas, or trucks
• Corrugated industrial construction
• Heavy poured-concrete foundation and loading tunnel
• Conveyor connects the processing structure with a truck dump
• Additional feeder conveyor represents material arriving from the quarry
• Can be expanded with separately available Walthers conveyor sections
• Decal signs for several different businesses
• Parts molded in appropriate colors
• Easy-to-build plastic structure kit
• Finished size of 9-3/8 x 11 x 10-1/4" (23.8 x 27.9 x 26cm)

The two-track loading area allows multiple cars to be spotted beneath the plant, creating opportunities for switching cuts of open hoppers or gondolas. Trucks can also use the loading pockets, making the structure suitable for a combined rail-and-road aggregate operation. Loaded cars can be routed to railroad maintenance facilities, concrete plants, construction-material dealers, or other industries located elsewhere on the layout.

The included conveyors help explain how material moves through the facility. Aggregate can be shown arriving from an off-layout quarry, being transferred from a truck dump, or moving between additional processing structures. Separately available conveyor sections can extend the system to rock piles, crushers, storage bins, or other parts of a larger quarry complex.

Glacier Gravel Company can also be adapted for other heavy-industry applications. Positioned near a mine, it can represent a preparation or loading plant for mineral traffic. Located near steel-mill buildings, it can serve as a slag-crushing and recovery facility. Aggregate piles, dump trucks, loaders, service roads, fencing, and weathered machinery can further establish the purpose of the property.

Expand Your Walthers Cornerstone Industrial District

Glacier Gravel Company fits naturally with Walthers Cornerstone heavy-industry structures when building a quarry, mining operation, or steel-manufacturing complex. It can also be combined with buildings from Walthers Cornerstone industrial structures to create a larger rail-served processing district.

Additional production, storage, and loading buildings can be found in Walthers Cornerstone factories and warehouses. Smaller elements for detailing the loading tracks, truck areas, and surrounding property are available in Walthers Cornerstone accessories and details.

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