DT&I Waverly Yard

Made this video awhile back, not all progress included here:

DTI Waverly May 2025 mp4 Introducing a shelf layout representing the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad in Waverly, Ohio in the early 1970s.

So in these pictures the elevator is installed with several feeder tubes to silos at Adams Feed & Grain. I don't know a lot about grain operations, but I'm assuming the white rectangular structure in the middle was an earlier model elevator, now replaced by the more modern metal version from which the tubes are running?

Here is the placement of structures and the start to the dirt/gravel road alongside. Still have to finish scenery and add the distribution tubing among the various buildings, etc.

(The house office is from a 3D design by nikolisa).

So this is the "near-finished" version of the Adams building. Not sure it is the scale house, a building for interior loading of grain, or both. Except for the wood planking, this is 3D printed using commercially available roof and siding (sized for this project) and then the various shapes set to mimic what I see from images, and the door designs and ramps created in TinkerCad. A side room to right still needs to be built and added.

I could use some help from those of you familiar with grain elevators -- Below are some images of my attempt at a 3D "general look and feel" model of what I think was the scale house (minus roof) in the Adams Feed & Grain complex. So far, I only recall seeing views from the northwest side, including a good photo from Bill Mapes. In his photograph, there is a ramp (probably concrete) up to a flat section with roof planking (the recessed area circled in orange in the second image of the primed model -- I have yet to add the wood planking (the ramp/recessed area in the back is only my assumption -- assume there would have been at least a ramp, but not sure if another planked section would have been there)). Question: Would that flat section with planking likely have been the scale itself, or would the scale likely have been inside the covered building and the ramp and planking are just to facilitate vehicles entering and exiting the scale? Thanks for any info.

Work on Adams Feed and Grain continues. The exact configuration of the various structures is difficult to determine with the few photos available and I'm using commercially available silos and some 3D printed items, including some home-designed 3D print components, so this will be more of an effort to capture the "look and feel."

Bill Mapes had sent me a nice photo from one side and from there I was able to have a good view of the office, which looks like a small one-story frame home.

Here are my efforts so far, but much work still to be done here including another major structure, feed distribution tubes, and scenery. (The house office is from a 3D design by nikolisa).

Some images of the old DT&I yard in Waverly taken today (March 19, 2026) and trackage inside a former industry alongside. No rail service anymore, but Norfolk Southern keeps some MoW cranes on one of the tracks.

The crossing at Route 220 had some greenery added from previous shots. Still need to add crossbucks. (Sorry, the depth of field is not good here, just using cell phone).

A little AI assistance gave me some track workers around the speeder.

(3D speeder and trailer model designs by ajkochevar)

This is a post from the Pike Heritage Museum of a photograph of an actual corn order from Adams Feed & Grain (one of the industries modeled on this layout) placed with the Vallery farm and Ed Jordan. I believe the Vallery name is quite prominent in the area (e.g., Vallery Ford) --

Pike Heritage Museum - Adam’s Feed & Grain - 1979 Invoice from Adams Feed & Grain. Though their office was located in Beaver, Ohio, their grain establishment was located in Waverly, Ohio.