For me right now it is the 14 foot paper mill i am working on. For years i wanted to do a paper mill in n scale or ho scale. It is 2 7ft by 2ft modules that are designed to fit on the other side of the yard of a bend track layout. I am not trying to model a specific papermill but i am trying to make the parts as accurate as possible. It is comming to train shows in november of this year and febuary of next year. I think it will take me atleast until fall of next year because there is alot of custom parts i need to scratch build.
Horizon Mill The biggest customer on my line is Horizon Mill, a modern durum flour mill. The structures only take up an area 16" by 7" but it takes a bit of trackage to keep up with their car demand (wheat in, flour out).
If you are asking about structure/s size then my paper mill would be the largest. If you are asking about square footage occupied then it would be my rock/stone/gravel quarry.
As my layout extends around the living room there are plans for industries on a 1' x 4' modal that will feature raw "Mysterium", (could be granular or slabs), in and finished product out, (as beams on flat cars or ? boxcar or tank car loads).
My logging operation. The entire railroad and the town exist to serve it. It takes up about 80% of the layout, including vertical live storage (aka forest), the mill, pond, drying shed, flash burner and warehouses for the finished product.
Nice Mill did you kitbash any of the buildings. I think i am up to about 15-20 different kits for my papermill so far and i am far from being done.
The buildings are all kitbashed; the non brick ones are built with styrene, the brick ones are built from kit parts.
I dunno..All of my buildings are large and have multiple spots. As far as length that goes to Midland Food Wholesalers Inc at 24"..This is a flat background building.
My harbor accounts for at least 75% of traffic, both to and from. The harbor is both commercial, about 20 feet long on the west side that accounts for most cargo, and Navy or Coast Guard on the south and east sides. The main yard serves the harbor. One 450-foot freighter (about 10,000 tons) equals one 100-car freight of 40-foot box cars--more or less. There are usually four large freighters in the harbor, accounting for four long trains per day. The oil storage facility near the east harbor accounts for about one long train a day. Even J-Town, on the northwest corner of the harbor, depends on the sea for its fish processing plants. I never got to build that part of the harbor. Harrington Farms accounts for daily traffic for dairy products, and the whole Allston-Brighton area accounts for machine parts traffic. Up on the third deck is the Air Force Base, which accounts for about 10% of traffic, though some of it overlaps the harbor traffic. Then there is the plutonium research facility, with the second biggest yard for materials in an out. There are plenty of small industries to account for a box car or two of traffic for local freights.
"What's your biggest N scale industry" Right now its replacing all the bad stuff I bought new.....haha But things are coming together quick now
