This topic is to showcase your industries and providing images as well as details about loads, types of cars and purpose for the industry
This is the brewery siding it has three sidings 1. Receiving siding 2. Distribution siding 3. Tank car siding The. Receiving siding receives raw products for the brewery including the following 1. boxcars for delivering glass bottles, labels for beer, cardboard, timber for packaging and crates. 2. PS-2 hoppers for delivery of barley The Distribution siding sends boxcars out of the brewery carrying bottled beer, ginger beer, The Tank car siding both received and distributes 1. Receives corn syrup at 85%, 70% and 60% consistency 2. Distributes liquid beer to various locations Am happy for any other suggestions the brewery can receive and distribute Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
How about adding signs? I am working on those to add to my layout. I went online and "stole" logos of the industries I'm modeling on my layout. I size them for my industry and print them on photo paper. The plan is to mount them on styrene backing and add them to my buildings. I use MS Publisher to edit them. Here are some I will be mounting soon.
Has anyone built this LifeLike kit? and if so do you have photos? Thanks. I have this kit, and just wondering if you have detailed it to make a better building than is presented by just the kit.
I saw this topic and thought, I have a lot to write and show about industries. Back in 1991, I made a one-hour video, "Traffic Simulation for a Texas Model Railroad," about scales of industries (not modeling scale), loads, traffic patterns, etc. in relation to geography. But my stuff is N scale and I notice this is on the HO category so I guess mine would not belong here....
Here is B&B Industries. They get inbound covered hopper cars(bottom dump and air flow) and send out tank cars. The first pic shows the tank racks(kitbashed/scratchbuilt with Walthers refinery piping kit) and the unloading shed with dry and wet storage. The second pic shows the front office, the air flow unloading rack and parking lot. JMS
Next, we have Byrd's Sand and Gravel. It gets inbound hoppers of sand and rock and sends out empties. Next is OxyChem. Not sure what it is called now, but the crews still call it OxyChem... I think they were bought by Johnson & Johnson and now makes toothpaste and mouthwash. It gets inbound tank cars of Titanium Dioxide(TiO2) and Sorbitol(Sugar Alcohol) and sends out empties. Every so often, it will get a couple covered hoppers. JMS
Peterson's Tool get inbound cars of steel coils, empty flats(for shipping out custom made items) and either sulfuric or phosphoric acid. Out bound traffic is boxes in boxcars, and the flats with loads. On the Warehouse Row Siding... at one end there is a Cold Storage Facility. It gets inbound reefers and sends out empties. JMS
One... well, two things people tend to forget as "Industries" are... 1)the RIP Track, which can also double as a "team" track for my MoW base. And, 2) the engine terminal. It gets inbound loads of sand and fuel, and sends out empties. JMS
Off on a little spur is Magic Pan Bakeries. It gets inbound cars of sugar and flour(airslide covered hoppers), liquid sugar and corn syrup(tank cars) and materials for boxes and packaging(boxcars). It sends out empties. Then there is DuPont. It gets empty covered hoppers and sends out loaded covered hoppers. It gets loaded tank cars(with acid, styrene, vinyl chloride, and other methyl, ethyl bad stuff) and sends out empties. Every once in a while, it gets a short tank car empty that it sends out full(probably waste stuff) and also, every blue moon, it gets a boxcar. Probably, getting a new piece of equipment or something. JMS
John, those are some great industries! Sounds like an operating session could take a while. Thanks for sharing such great photos.
Ok I realised I actually have a team track on my layout so what cars and type of loads can be loaded and unloaded?
A team track can receive ANY freight car, that a customer needs. Flat cars, if it has a ramp or a portable ramp. Boxcars, they just need a fork lift to load or retrieve the items. Tank cars, back your tank truck up an pump off what you need. Covered Hoppers, with a portable conveyer to transfer the load from the bottom of the hopper to the top of your trailer. Just about anything and everything.
Hi Kenneth, I think the operation thread could be "gender neutral" as far as scales go myself. If you have ides to contribute, I'm sure they will be well received, even if you are modeling in N. Thanks, Dale
The Vernon Team mentioned above by me receives metal products in boxcars, coil cars, flat cars (including bulkhead & centerbeams) & gondolas (w/ covers or not). That's just the I've seen in person or in aerials. This team has a covered transfer dock, gantry crane & ramp to handle "shapes". That's Santa Fe's lingo for metal products. Have aerial pix of the ramp w/ heavy equipment on flat cars. Vernon team is literally right next door to Los Angeles Junction's Fruitland team. The LAJ side handles mostly hoppers of all kinds (grains, flour). These days Fruitland is shipping dirty dirt containers in well cars. Most traffic for these teams was/is loads inbound & transferred to trucks. The LAJ was wholly owned by Santa Fe. So BNSF still owns them. Before that happened in 1972, Santa Fe always had a controlling interest in LAJ. In the past there was a direct connection between LAJ & Santa Fe but no more. The Santa Fe cars come from their Malabar Yard about 1/2 mile west. So you can bet your sweet bippy both teams are going to be on my layout! It can fit in a space as small as 2' x 6' but 2.5' x 8' would be better. Will also have a stub version of Malabar for staging. If you want to see these team tracks use "2657 Fruitland Ave 90058" to see them in Bing, Google &/or historicaerials.com. So John the coils could be unloaded at your team track & trucked to the tool company. >)
Colonel See my post above. Just about anything can be loaded/unloaded from just about any car type as long as your team track has the right equipment to do the job. And if you have to o-5-o things til you get the right equipment, we won't tell. >)
Yes thank you for the insightful information. It's sure thought me things and given me plenty of food for thought toward my new layout.
A team track is used by customers who don't have direct access to rail service. I know here in my home town, they have a team track, (named by the way for the teams of horses that used to haul the wagons) with a ramp and it has served this city's industries for years. Local farmers use it mostly, they drop hopper of feed or seed there quite often. I have also seen boxcars left on that track next to the ramp for unloading too.