To conclude my series on bakeries, here is a little information on the structures, rolling stock, vehicles and operations.

Structures

Bakeries come in all shapes and sizes, but most of the older ones were pretty substantial brick or cinder block buildings from what I can gather. Here’s a collection of photos demonstrating the variety.

Rainbo Bakery, reportedly in Tuscan, AZ.

Older Rainbow Bakery in Tucson, AZ.

Rainbo Bakery in Roanoke, VA.  Photo courtesy of Roanoke Public Library.

Back of a bakery, location unknown.

Here’s a more modern bakery.

Schwebels Bakery, Solon OH, 2005, photo courtesy of  Dan Sapochetti

Here is a collection of photos of a former Rainbo bakery in Lexington, KY with some cool interior shots in case you were very ambitious and wanted to model a realistic interior.

Here is a few photos of silos and unloading equipment.

Shick bulk flour system, courtesy of Shick Solutions.

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I lived in Roswell, NM, for much of the early 1990s.  One of the pleasures of early 1990 Roswell was driving by the Rainbo bakery and smelling the fresh bread being baked.  Another treat for me was to check out the spur where the Santa Fe Railway brought in covered hoppers of flour.

Site of Bakery in Roswell.  Green dots denote the former unloading area.

Sadly, it is all gone now with the exception of a few relics.  The green dots above show where the cars were spotted for unloading and the base upon which the silos sat that stored the flour.  The flour was pneumatically carried from the train car to the silos and from the silos to the bakery.  I am not sure if the remaining structure was related to the bakery.  I remember to pneumatic tube that carried the flour to the bakery was pretty long and may…