If you belong to a club, what industry do you model on the layout? If you have your own personal layout, what is your major industry? For example, my Club industry is a scrap yard with outbound rail service…tTruck brings it in, the load is cubed, and shipped out in gondolas to Shire Oaks, where it is classified into a train of similar material, to be shipped to the steel mill, and other places. My eventual layout main industry will be a coal tipple, and a power plant.
My layout is a servicing terminal so I really don’t have any industries, per say. What things I do move in and out are sand, coal, diesel fuel, and their empties.
Tom
At the moment it’s a 1950s logging mill where rough cut logs are brought in by horse and wagon and leave as nice cut boards on the back of trucks. There’s also a nearby track so the train can either pick up lumber or drop off logs.
Tracklayer
Don’t belong to a club, so nothing there. On my layout the main industry is a cotton mill. Cotton, dyes, bleaches, and the occasional coal load in. Finished cloth out. Hundreds of them were once over the southeast. Many were on short branches or short line railroads whose main purpose was to support the mill and mill town that grew up around it.
The area I’m modeling, coal (anthracite) and cement.
–Randy
The largest industry on my layout is the Holly Sugar Company sugar beet processing plant formerly located in Santa Ana, California. Lots of hoppers and gondolas loaded with sugar beets plus cars of processing chemicals, bags, boxes and crates in. Lots of sugar and sugar related products out. I used a Walthers Greatland Sugar Mill kit that I partially kitbashed into a larger facility. Since the wall of the main building facing the backdrop cannot be seen, I grafted the long side walls and the two roof halves end-to-end to make a structure twice as long. Plain .040" styrene sheet was used to make the rear half of the longer roof while a piece of 3/16" plywood was used to make a blank rear wall. I also used strip styrene to increase the length of the kit supplied sugar beet dump by a factor of four. Layout space around this industry dictated that it had to be served by only two spur lines with one over the dump pit. Since many of the freight cars commandeered for sugar beet service were not equipped to dump their loads into the beet dump, a diesel crane with a clamshell bucket was kitbashed from a Life Like steam crane and positioned to unload such cars into a large beet pile, then later move the pile to the beet dump. I also added two molasses tanks fabricated from PVC pipe and sheet styrene.
Trains with as many as 10 hoppers/gondolas can be run to and from this industry. During peak seasons, several trains per day were possible on the prototype. The prototype industry was originally serviced by the Pacific Electric and later by the Southern Pacific until the plant closed in the late 1970’s. Since my layout assumes that the Santa Ana and Newport, the line that existed prior to the opening of this plant, remained independent and operating into the 1950’s, the plant is served by both the SA&N and the Santa Fe.
There’s J&B Scrap. The Club scrapyard that I am about 50% done on.
LION runs model of NYC Subway. Him moves people.
People are also tasty. That is why they run around so quickly in the city.
ROAR
Probably the largest single industry on my layout is a cement plant. A maximum of about 14 cars can be spotted there at once.
SCR biggest customer is Hillcrest Recycling Inc.
Boxcar,tank car and covered hopper.
In: Gaylords of scrap rubber,J flex Out:Rubber pellets.
Around 450 cars/yr
Our clubs main industry is a small Bio Refining company as seen here
My homec layout has several industries not just one main one. I have a scrap yard, soda bottling company, plastic pellet operation, LP distrubution facility and a construction supply warehouse.
Chad
An operating gravel plant is my largest producer of loaded freight cars.
When I get enough bench work built my largest industries will be a grain elevator and a power plant. What currently generates the most traffic are four interchanges.
It looks like the big one on my layout will be the tannery, which is under construction right now. Loads in are hides, salt, acid and fuel oil, while loads out will be boxcars. I’ve also got a slaughterhouse, so there will be industry-to-industry traffic in hides.
More traffic, however, will likely come through the carfloat terminal. While not exactly an “industry,” it provides a lot of activity and a lot of variety in a small space.
I don’t have a single major industry, but the largest one on my home layout is a dock with one A/D track, one lead and two transfer tracks. There is one traveling crane On one if thr transfer tracks.
Additionally I have:
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Grain elevator on a stub off a station siding
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An engine service facility 4 tracks, tool shed, diesel fueling facility
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A saw mill with a siding and two tracks
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A 7-track yard
No club membership here, just my layout…
Turkey Feed mill…soyben meal processor. receives seven hopper cars three times a week. Product is processed, bagged, then shipped in trucks.
Other industries are a redi mix plant, oil distributor, propane and fertilizer dealer, recycled paper processor, and somthing to use hoppers loaded with plastic pellets ( haven’t figured that out yet). All receive about 2 to 4 cars, about twice a week. Keeps the shortline happy.
I have 3 large industries. Coal Mine, Ethanol Plant, and an Oil Refinery. And of course passnegers are an important industry as well, for two large passenger stations.
Like some others - I’m not currently in a club. My layout is currently under (re)construction, but the most prominent industries will be North Georgia Mining (proto-lanced, based on real company and geography), and logging/sawmill (also based on real company and geography). My layout will be set in 1957.
Brad
I model the steel mill where your scrap metal gets shipped to! [8-|]
My layout’s largest two industries are Miller Milling Co… and New World Pasta. They are side by side just as they are in real life. Miller grinds the flour and pipes it across to the pasta plant. Miller also ships flour with dedicated hoppers to other customers. Miller handles so many cars it has it’s own locomotive as pictured.
Pictured is my version of the two plants
Bob