Elvas Tower: Independence Mine Exhaust Stack - Elvas Tower

Independence Mine
80 Ft Exhaust Stack

This was the main exhaust Stack for the Independence Mine that served the facilities and the mills at the mine. It was a ceramic flue partly buried in the ground that led from the No. 5 Roaster out to the stack near the Ore Crusher House.

Victor, Colorado

1909

The Independence Straton Mine was one of the largest in the Cripple Creek District and was the site of one of the first lodes to be found by Edward Straton in the first years of the gold boom

in that field. This huge mine complex contained a whole series of shafts, Mills, processing facilities and Ore Houses and delivered ore to the Midland and also to the Cripple Creek RRs on both standard and Narrow Gauge lines. This complex will be details in a series of models to facilitate placement as it also contained numerous smaller structures and a number of tramways and trestles Refer to the overall layout plan for correct placement.

This series could not have been done without extensive research and the help of colleagues in the Historical research field of the early mines of Colorado especialy including Linda Irene Tingvik with her kind permission, she also shared the historic Sandborn insurance maps that allows the creation of this complex

This model includes night and snow textures. It is medium poly so can be used for both MSTS and

Open Rails.

Rights and Restrictions: you may freely use, rework and repaint this model, TSM source files is included. The only restriction is that this model may not be sold or used in commercial pay ware without my express permission. You can reach me at the e mail below. It may also be converted to Railworks, Trainz or any other sim format I would appreciate notice and a copy of your finished work.

Installation:
Place the shape and texture files into your route folders and add the ref entry to your ref list.

I use the 257 texture setting so that this will correctly display both snow and night textures.


Chris Gerlach (CrisGer)
October 2015

chrisgerlach9@yahoo.com