I’m really quite eager to start the next railroad, but I’ve promised myself I’ll finish this one. The remaining building I need to construct serves the spur on the autumn portion of the layout. I decided that a feed mill would be the most appropriate industry, so I went hunting for a few images. It didn’t take long before I happened upon this photo.

I reworked the photo in illustrator until I had come up with a scale schematic to work from. (*Note: most people don’t use Adobe Illustrator, let alone draft structures in them -this is something best left for CAD, however I do find illustrator fast, easy to use, and produces drawings with real measurements that I can work from.)

The draft is terribly incomplete – I just wanted to outline enough of the major architectural features for me to start building. I’ll add the details as I go along. I’m not too worried about creating an overly complex or highly accurate model – just a reasonable facsimile.