Mike Condren’s Memphis Railroads site has a 1941 map from the Union Railway that can be opened at high resolution. It indicates by name and assigned number many industries served by the company, and by comparing this to one of the aerials you can get a better idea of what industries used what track arrangements. Some of these are highly interesting…
Hi, Mr Late,The RCA Victor Plant was across the street from the Campells Plant
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The Pennsy and Reading both had a major presence in Camden, think street running with PRR A5’s https://www.reddit.com/r/trains/comments/gz6xu2/prr_a5s_040_713_backing_along_the_streets_of/ and P&R A5’s (no relation) https://d4761dc5-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/camelbacksteamlocomotives/home/1-0-4-0-0-6-0/IMG_0001-018.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7cro2Ft1ee02GTCemB1_BUJmOT5F-RakO7goGlu8GnF_0onFveNQurcyZcszuyMlIfbDMKoTotG4bzF4YVrRs8S8XHejKAkvAjf1T3N2Kd8Fm1LbTb6tkF26fSdU1Z0qjCfdCLY6YQBDhMHKMNMg6-PgItEefWKBGasWGgl5h9xsqpRZ9Vw60mcHmzYU3NJB6Cp-K7AU_zukxyBXMKKB6B9FkYIzqu1mZ6WFFlPm-on2AYzPHOzctWuCXhL4Khpz4GITRzjb&attredirects=0 ducking in and out of buildings. Both locos have been available in HO as are proper period cars so a switching layout in the urban canyons with tight radii and short trains would be definitely modelable. Contact the PRRT&HS http://www.prrths.com and Reading Company Tech & Historical Society http://www.readingrailroad.org/rcthsmember.shtml and I’m sure you’ll find information and like minded modelers. Good luck!
BTW, the bigg
Beausabre,
Thanks for the inspiration. Since Victor Talking Machine became RCA in 1929 I’ll push my timeline back. That should also put me in the range of Sanborn maps that are digitized and online.
I’m about eight months away from starting my basement layout, and I’ve been changing plans about as often as quarantined people are changing their shirts. I’m not sure if I am up to this challenge, but I like the hometown connection, and I may stick with this one. I haven’t seen any maps or photos showing a siding for Victor Talking Machine so that is my immediate project - to see if there was rail service.
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I havent found sandborn or hexmater maps. But i have found arial photos from the 30’s. And what a massive complex that was
Glass Foundry: indound raw materials to batch house / outbound boxcars shipping finished goods.
The PRR had some specialized flatcars for plate glass service http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?sel=flat&sz=sm&fr=GS