Hello Track Gang,
I am building my N scale layout. About 3/4 done the track when I stop, look around, and say to my self, I NEED WAY MORE INDUSTRIES! My layout was starting to look like a 80 square foot christmas loop! I have a yard on one side, but what I am looking for is a list of Industries, trying to get as many different ideas as possible. (My plan is 1959 Canada, but am open to all ideas.
For example:
-Coal Mine
-Team Track
Etc, etc, all ideas are greatly apprieciated!
packing plant stock yard
cannery
power plant
dairy
lumber feed mill
ray
Personally, I like a cannery. They need lots of stuff:
Aluminum cans
Paper (labels for the cans)
Boxes (to put the canned stuff in)
Pallets (for the boxes of canned stuff)
Veggies (to can)
Salts (to help preserve the veggies)
couple more are:
Oil well/refinery
Auto plant/tire plant
Ice house
Brewery and grain elevator are musts for a Canadian road of that era. Steel, or metal from smelters (INCO, ALCAN), coal for smelters, etc.
Paper Mills have alot of Tracks going though them In MN if you model IP paper in sartell they have 4 Tracks running next to it 2 for switching and 2 for mainline then they have one track that Leads into the building where boxcars are loaded that fit about 20 cars and then there is a set of Tracks that run into the wood yard for slurry cars and it splits so they can have pulp cars unloaded at a crain
if you go with Sappi Paper in Cloquet MN there is a lot of Tracks that Run though there yard there are 2 Main lines that Run next to it that have 3 switching lanes
and 5 double sets then 1single set and a double set that Run along the right side the
Single Run is powered by a cable to pull loaded cars closer to the crane to unload the cars.
the IP mill uses a BNSF engine #2801 and the sappi mill uses a New Switcher that is painted black and Red and says Cloquet terminal RailRoad on the side.
Just some Ideas if you want to go with either of them I can make a Rough pic for you to fallow…I might have pics somewhere that I took when I drove pulp truck to the mills
Paper mill although you would want a very compressed version. I have one along my back wall that is over 8 feet long but very shallow. Chemicals and wood pulp in. Paper and cardboard out.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE!(you need somthing to get the meat the heck out of there! lol!
You know, one that you rarely see modeled that requires all kinds of cars is a pickle factory. It needs cucumbers delivered, bags of spices, empty jars in and full ones out, and much more. I saw an entire operation one time and it is truely amazing to see all the different step and things that go into the process. It would make an interesting and different industry to model.
Another would be a cement factory. Covered hoppers for the finished product, and open hoppers for the raw material.
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In a space only inches deep, you can add 5 industries in N scale with 7 loading docks. You could designate the largest as a furniture factory (lots of in/out loads), book printers, piano factory, auto parts, and produce warehouse. The entire backdrop scene is intended to fit a 1950s era.
lesmavor
Canada is a pretty big place, can you narrow it down more? On the Canadian shield there would be nickel mines.
interchange.
no other industury can have more variety of cars, take up less space, or be easier to put into a track plan. just a long siding going off the edge of the layout and you can put the cars on by hand. (thats how i do it . actually mine is a 3 track yard, my railroad owning one end, and Conrail owning the other.)
GEARHEAD426
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Waterfront warehouse district handling non-containerized loads
Waterfront Container Port
Flour Mill
Bulk Raw Material shipping port (i.e. raw gypsum)
Lumber Mill
Pulp & Paper Mill
Oil Refinery
Steel Mill
Mines
Auto-port
Those are all ones that I have seen in my home provice of Nova Scotia.
Except maybe a RIP track.
Tim,
Question about waterfront industries…can u tell m e anymore about loads in/out?
Canadian Shield
Oh! What about a brick plant? What would that require?
Hoppers, mixing mills, drying kiln, 100’ chimney, oil/coal/propane for the kiln…?
I live 45 minutes from this:
http://www.saskurbex.prairiepast.com/main/claybank/claybank.htm
Oh, wow… pick anything! I used to spend a lot of time biking the waterfront in Halifax when I was in my teens, as I loved watching ships and trains. I’ve seen everything from piggyback trailer loads and containers roll by, to lumber, logs, loads of rails (rather ironic) and even armoured vehicles go by on trains. Litterally, anything that you can imagine shipping in boxcars, tractor trailers, etc, will go through the Halifax waterfront. AND I saw plenty of bulk carriers going hauling flower and grain. I hope that helps!
Cheers.