Answering on another post made me really think about the area I live in and the rails. It all lies under 2 miles west of my apartment, covers an area maybe a square mile or two, has to have a few miles of track, and has a lot more to offer than I previously thought. Categorically listed;
Currently Rail Served: 1 lumber supplier, 1 lumber distribution point for national lumber dealer, 1 metal recycler, 1 animal by-products producer, 1 cement train-to-truck transload terminal
Unserviced Existing Spurs: 3 distribution warehouses (could also be all one company but as stands three separate buildings and three separate spurs), 2 paper converters, 1 lumber dealer, 1 industrial metal products manufacturer (spur has a yellow box car parked on it for on-site storage)
Removed Spurs: 1 paper converter, 2 lumber supplier
All in all that totals 15 possibly shippers; 1 cement, 5 lumber, 3 paper, 2 metal, 3 warehouse, and 1 animal
Out of the current shippers only one, the animal people, is a regular shipper, about 8 loads a day as qouted by me from a conductor (I didn’t dare pry more into it as he was checking his switch list). The metal recyclers is I would consider semi-regular. It doesn’t seem to have much of a seasonal flux, but they may get 4 gons one week then three weeks later get six gons (have seen this happen), or they may also go a few weeks in a row where they get 4 empty gons delivered.
The other two are seasonal, however this is ALOT of concrete projects going on so they are seeing a tremendous amount of traffic, both truck and rail. Their two spurs can hold about 12 cement hoppers, and they’re going through them like kids at a 25 cent gum ball machine at the mall. I get done at 6 am usually run through that road around 10 after and the drive is full every morning with around 10 trucks waiting to load up.
So all in all, check your local listings!! I will try to get a sketch of the trackage and possibly some pics.