Shipping and Receiving
This end view show both the truck loading dock on the left and the narrower rail loading dock on the left.
I got a DPM factory kit #506 called Gripp’s Luggage Mfg over twenty years ago, but it sat in my parts box with various plastic and metal construction materials that I use for scale buildings. Last year I built the building shell and roof plus the loading dock for trucks, painted them, and then constructed a custom base. This year I painted all those window frames and doors scattered around the six sides and installed clear plastic window glazing. Recently I scratch-built a small loading dock to serve the rail spur and added a sign on the roof.
Like most DPM structure kits, the factory is a two story brick building with details that suggest North American late 19th century to mid-20th century construction. The factory is just big enough to actually be served by a railroad and could be almost any kind of warehouse or manufacturing plant that doesn’t require a lot of obvious external equipment. The factory could produce clothing, shoes, metal products, wood products, drugs, cosmetics, toys, plastic products, electronics, small appliances, canned foods, baked goods, or be a small printing plant.
There are more esoteric possibilities: since the town is in northern New Mexico set in the 1950’s, perhaps the products have something to do with the Atomic Energy Commission’s plant at Los Alamos or whatever happened near Roswell a few years earlier. Both mysterious locations aren’t very far away. Maybe the sign on the roof says it all, but the folks who work here won’t say a word.
Shipping and Receiving
This end view show both the truck loading dock on the left and the narrower rail loading dock on the left.
I got a DPM factory kit #506 called Gripp’s Luggage Mfg over twenty years ago, but it sat in my parts box with various plastic and metal construction materials that I use for scale buildings. Last year I built the building shell and roof plus the loading dock for trucks, painted them, and then constructed a custom base. This year I painted all those window frames and doors scattered around the six sides and installed clear plastic window glazing. Recently I scratch-built a small loading dock to serve the rail spur and added a sign on the roof.
Like most DPM structure kits, the factory is a two story brick building with details that suggest North American late 19th century to mid-20th century construction. The factory is just big enough to actually be served by a railroad and could be almost any kind of warehouse or manufacturing plant that doesn’t require a lot of obvious external equipment. The factory could produce clothing, shoes, metal products, wood products, drugs, cosmetics, toys, plastic products, electronics, small appliances, canned foods, baked goods, or be a small printing plant.
There are more esoteric possibilities: since the town is in northern New Mexico set in the 1950’s, perhaps the products have something to do with the Atomic Energy Commission’s plant at Los Alamos or whatever happened near Roswell a few years earlier. Both mysterious locations aren’t very far away. Maybe the sign on the roof says it all, but the folks who work here won’t say a word.