what kind of industries do you have on you model layout and what cars go with them. Also for operational purposes I would like to have industries that work together like a Grain elevator and a flour mill. What other kinds of industries work together like this?
First I like Boxcars,Reefers Covered hoppers and Tank cars…So my industries reflect that.Here is a list of industries on my C&HV’s Jackson Branch.
Jackson.
1.Pillisbury.IN:Sugar,flour,corn starch,corn sweetener OUT: Empties.
2.Valley Produce.IN: Produce OUT: Empties
3.Midland Foods Dist.IN: Food stuffs,paper products/plastic ware. OUT: Empties.
4.Carters Lumber Co.IN: Lumber,roofing,Paneling,insulation.OUT: Empties.
5.Alloy Steel Blades Corp.IN Coil steel. OUT: Empties.
6.Roberts Distribution. IN:Beer,wine whiskey Tobacco products. OUT Empties.
7.Country Boy Co-op. IN Empties/John Deere Implements OUT Grain/Empties…
8.Riverside Feeds.IN: Feed OUT Empties.
9.Standard American Knitting Corp.IN Cloth,Dyes,tread. Out Military uniforms/Empties.
10.Honey Creek Meats Processors IN: Meats OUT: Empties.
CDBI/C&HV Distribution Center.
1.Creeger Implement Co.IN: Case Farm implements. Out Empties.
2.The Yuleman Corp.IN: Steel Beams OUT Empties.
3.Southern Ohio Rural Electric. Electric poles,wire and transformers.OUT:Empties.
4.Cottons Lumber Co. IN: Lumber,Roofing Insulation Paint.OUT: Empties.
5.J.D.Gilbert Corp.IN: Rolled Paper OUT: Paper products/Empties.
Wellston.
1.General Plastic Corp. IN:Resin/empties OUT: Plastic pellets/Empties.
2.Wellston Scrap Iron. IN: Empties OUT: Scrap.
3.76 Lumber IN:Lumber,Roofing OUT:Empties.
4.Williams & Sons Co.Inc. IN: Scrap rubber empties.OUT: Rubber pellets/Empties.
Coon Creek Branch.
1.Campbells Trans-loading. IN: Empties OUT:Coal
2.Black Hawk Load out #12 IN: Empties OUT: Coal.
3.Cardinal Mines Tipple #28 IN: Empties O
I used Rail Tycoon II and III to show a chart that is included with the computer game for a understandable chart of how industires work together.
Obviously in real life the devil is in the details.
My town of Falls Valley has a Grain and feed mill complete with facilities for unloading Boxcar and Covered Hopper grains. Some of this goes across to the StockYards where cattle are rested and fed before continuing the run to the packing plant. There is adequate water in this area for that.
Other industrial support in the town includes a Icing plant for reefer cars and a electric/gas works facility that supports the area’s need for grain drying and so forth. There is a freight house and a depot that requires small inflow of supplies and provisions and a out flow of passengers, mail and express.
At the moment I am deciding if a sawmill or a sand and gravel dock should go into the remaining area in the corner. I may extend the town by 2 foot and 6 inches to make it all happen.
There will be two more towns planned that have thier own industries and rely on Falls Valley’s production and needs for thier survival. I think one will be a harbor and the other will be a foothills with a river. Between these 3 towns I think the railroad will have plenty of work to do.
what ever YOU want
Along with the sawmill being in built up in Rana Mountain and the usual traffic of a logging railroad, there is the largest N-Scale Tofu packing plant in the Adirondacks. Dozens of the familiar yellow refrigerated cars bringing sides of tofu in, refrigerated cars full of packaged tofu out every day.
Since tofu on the hoof do so well in cold climates & on thin vegetation, we’re thinking of moving the grazing & feedlot operations from the ranches out west to the clear-cut timberlands up here in the North Country. This will necessitate stock car traffic from feedlots to a new slaughterhouse, as well as cars carrying feed & supplies.
Some of the cut over lower lands are suitable for grazing herds to support a new soy milk dairy & we expect soy milk trains to be originating here also…
Look around at the products produced in your area for similar ideas.
Wayne