Im struggling to find industries to model on the BNSF Red River sub (Texas Panhandle) and was hoping some users here would have some ideas. Right now I have a grain elevator and that’s it so any help would be much appreciated.
The Texas panhandle grows a lot of cotton. So a cotton gin could ship baled cotton and cottonseed (cattle feed).
Ray
Unless you live in that area, most of your visitors won’t know what fits or does not. Select industries that you like, who cares if they would really be there.
An Oil refinery get crude in by pipeline, and shipping out finished fuels equals tanker cars. A plastic pellet plant ships mostly in covered hoppers.
Dairy: 2/3 of the milk peoduced in Texas is from the Panhandle.
Wind energy
Isn’t that oil country, windmills, cattle and caliche mining? Caliche is like a limestone.
I think those big white windmills are ugly, but you do see the blades transported by rail on the midwest railcams
I am not familiar with BNSF’s divisional structure and therefore cannot speak to the industries on the “Red River Subdivision”. I do have Car Locator and Inventory Control books for the Santa Fe’s Plains Division encompassing their Fourth, Fifth, Plainview, and Floydada subdivisions in the Texas panhandle. I also have a CLIC book for the Hereford Sub, including Amarillo’s Junior Yard.
These books provide track diagrams showing each sidetrack, whom it serves as well as car spots, doors, unloading pits, loading spouts, etc. Each industry or “patron” in ATSF speak is also listed in an alphabetical index. Example:
Patron name Station
Adams Feed Mill Post
American Cotton Growers Littlefield
American Magnesium Brand
American Plant Foods Littlefield
Anderson Grain Co. Abernathy
And 3+
Thanks. The sub is actually ex CBQ but I’m sure it will still be of use.
“Fly” over the sub using Google Maps and “land” using street view to see what the industry names are.
Do you have Google Earth? In larger towns, you can zoom in to “street view”, which gives you a real-time look at the areas.