CP-Served Industry Structure Flats

On a limited-space layout, I've found that structure flats can be used to effectively portray an industry. The key is making them not 'look like' structure flats by blending colours into printed backdrops, sky and nearby buildings. One of the last I had to build is the Weldwood Canada warehouse at the east end of Railway Street. The prototype is still there, and I really like the 1950's look of the loading dock. Mine is a three-sided structure flat, as are the other two that CP served along Railway Street.

Two photos of the prototype in use as a furniture outlet in 2019 (above) and Gamble-Robinson (with trucks lettered for Snoboy and Standby in 1952 (below - George Lilley photo/Queen's Archives). In building my flat, I really wanted to feature the loading dock, so flipped the building 90 degrees but left off the covered garage section.

Next up the spur was the MacCosham Van Lines warehouse. This flat started its life as a McCain Foods structure on a previous layout iteration. It's no longer Orange! and Grey, instead painted a grey colour to blend with the blue-painted wall to make its lack of depth less noticeable:

Though these spurs were all served by reasonably long, curving spurs off the CP Kingston Subdivision (lead) between Elliott Avenue and Railway Street, on my layout they line the wall to which the lead is parallel and the spurs necessarily short. Same flat, with cars spotted. In all cases, cars that I spot here have the same lading - household effects.

Next up is Weston's Bakeries. A bit of a question-mark here...though I believe the bakery only received flour in bags, I have a surfeit of cylindricals and can justify a few on this spur. Also, probably no big silos, though these two are from a previous iteration feed mill so are doing the job for now! Employees always wear white coveralls when dealing with flour.

Along the Inner Harbour, the Hield Bros. woolen mill is represented by this flat made of Revell roundhouse walls, an actual printed photo of the upper storeys and a cool Sylvan Models brick square chimney purchased from ARK member Bob Farquhar at the November 2019 Railfair. I enjoyed painting the stack to represent aged brick. Boxcars are loaded with 'garments'.

At the northern end of the CP trackage, there is this Non-Descript 1.0 flat. A tranche of the office of the Walthers O.L King Coal Co., I added it to some printed backdrops to represent any number of such buildings in the area.

Nearby is Presland Iron & Steel, here served by CP (Soo Line gon) and CN (BN boxcar) since both railways served joint trackage here.

Let's lose the colour! Black & white hides some sins. Weldwood:

Lead at left, MacCosham and Weston's at right:

Weldwood, MacCosham and Weston's, viewed from the opposite end of this wall.

Presland, from the CP end of the joint trackage: