Update:
Welcome
To get everyone up to speed, about a year ago, I started rebuilding my layout. The plan was to double it's size.
I had a 4x8 and was going to build another 4x8 table and turn it 90° to form a "L". But I had a problem with a
jack post column. No matter which way I positioned the layout, the column was going to be in between the
two tables. So I needed to incorporate it in my layout. That led me to post this thread for ideas from other Forum
Members. All of the ideas were viable, except maybe Sherrel's Devils Tower and Tim Langs tornado.
I really
appreciated the humor, but realistically a little out of place for my layout.
Before I could work on the column, I had to connect the two tables. There's a 18" gap between the them.
And here's the post column.
I'm making this gap into a creek.
I decided to make the post column into a grain bin. I have a grain elevator to the left of the column and
across the tracks. So it was logical to disguise the column as a bin.
The column is actually in the creek. So, I'm constructing a round "pier" for the grain bin to rest on.
My decision was a culmination of Forum Member suggestions and this prototype
This proto is 12 miles northeast of Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River. It was a barge transfer facility.
A clamshell bucket crane or long-arm excavator sat on the platform unloading barges.
Of course, my adaption is the post column disguised as a grain bin.
The next to last picture is my current construction. I plan on finishing the column/bin in 3 or 4 weeks and will
post updates every few days.
I hope you enjoy this continued thread and come back again.
Thanks . . . Jim