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You left out logging - my favorite.
i picked grain. i think thats what i’m going to have on my layout. a grain elevator, Breweing company, and then something that hauls boxes or something. not sure. i know for sure though that i’m going to have a grain elevator. maybe a coal industry to.
I voted “Coal”.
As a kid on the GWR mainline (near Swindon) I was always just as fascinated by a 28XX and 50 loads – as I was by the 80 mph Bristolian. For one thing the 15 mph coal train provided a much longer experience !
Then when I lived in St. Paul Mn., I took a 2 week driving/camping vacation, just to watch (and listen to) the BN and CNW drags pulling up out of the Powder River Basin.
I couldn’t narrow it down to just one because I like most of them and will try to fit many on the layout. I’m modeling the Midwest in the 1960’s, specifically rural north-central Illinois.
Of course I will have the almost obligatory Illinois coal mine, as well as a gravel quarry, and it goes almost without saying that the grain industry will be WELL represented. I am also tentatively planning on a brewery or soft drink plant, a chemical plant, a snack or pet food plant, as well as various small town fuel dealers and agricultural facilities on the branch. There will also be a relatively large stock pens/slaughterhouse/by-product facility as well a good sized appliance manufacturing complex., and a tank farm fuel storage facility in one corner. Also, a good sized building flat representing a grocery chain distribution warehouse, as well as various smaller, rail served customers in the “warehouse district” just to the east of the yard and Burlington freight house.
On the other hand, specifically there will be NO auto, ore, paper, or the very popular but of no interest to me whatsoever, steel industry, other than metal which will go to the appliance complex and to the Helmer boiler and manufacturing plant, named in honor of my great grandfather who was a stationary engineer.
I had planned to have a good sized TOFC/COFC facility initially, but I just can’t fit it. As a compromise I have been able to snag a back track in Westcott yard for mainly TOFC circus loading, and the occassional container loaded/unloaded by the special forklift type machine which I bought from Walthers a few years ago.
Other industries to be sure, but the above addresses mainly those which were indicated in the poll.
Happy Holidays, all!
Ya gotta love an old, rusty, Iron industry
The M.E.S.S. runs on Coal!
So does the “Wye Valley Junction” (run on coal) – at least on BR nights.
On US nights, my only steamer (a GS4) is an oil burner (Oh the naivete’ of a rookie) – but I do have a triple headed BN - 50 car coal train.
Give 'em hell Fergus !
I like logging, even though my favorite railroad is UP.
I voted fruit.
Even though a string of black hoppers plodding along with a Mallet is awsome, a reefer block is more intesting. Nothing compares to a long strip of PFE and ATSF reefers. Transportion of fruit makes for intresting railroading. They are literally the coolest cars. [8D]
I voted other, since he left out Dockwork (an industry in itself)
jay
Paper and Power plants for that was what I spent my working life designing and putting in service.
I’m planning a waterfront with a cannery.
Enjoy
Paul
it all depends on what mood i’m in when i’m modelling
Texas Toothpicks [:D] One of my other hobbies is woodworking so I have put a saw mill, lumber co. and furniture mfg.
Though I said coal, there’s gypsum, timber, fish, iron ore, wine, live stock and gold.
Hence the MESS.
And for good measure Maple Syrup.
I voted for grain but also have a chemical plant ,bulk transfer track and a flour mill.
I also run cement cars.
BTW did I say that I love covered hoppers.
The steel industry. I am modeling Bethlehem Steel, served by the Lehigh Valley & Reading.
Team Track.
Along with Interchanges, it’s the do-everything industry.
The railroad I’m gonna model, the UP, mainly did, well, everything. Anyway, I voted intermodal.