Hi Everyone, does anybody have a totally ridiculous, nonsense industry on their layout just to have fun with? On my railroad it was “Havemore Industries”. I built it so that I would “have more industry to serve”. Hence the name. It was never clear what Havemore ever did. In this way I could deliver any type of car to it for any reason whatsoever. Everybody wondered what Havemore made. Was it nuclear weapons? Tupperware? All sorts of rumors abounded. So that is what I decided Havemore really was—A Rumor Mill! Have fun with this topic!
Any kind of railcar? You’d still need to model appropriate visible unloading apparatus such as pipes for tank cars, pneumatic hoses or undertrack dumps for hopper cars, docks/doors for boxcars and flats, etc. I’m sure somebody can dig up an example of multiple types (meaning 4 or more types) of loading appartus on one industrial siding (transload yards don’t count), but it’d be a bit rare.
That aside, in the modern era you can achieve the same effect and be prototypical by having a somewhat plain looking building with the phrase “Logistics” or “Distribution” or “Solutions” in a otherwise suitably vague name. Let’s pick an example - what does “Lion Logistics” (in honor of Brother Elias) do? Well, in reality they are freight forwarders “Specializing in Perishable Foods and Other Time Sensitive Shipping Needs”, but could you guess that from their name? Maybe, maybe not.
Also consider using initials & the word “Group” - e.g. “The PRI Group” - they are recyclers and waste management specialists - but that name could serve almost anything.
Indeed, corporate naming since the 1970s has made it easy to be rather vague what a modeled business does, as long as you keep the unloading facitilies relevant for the type of freight cars that you want to serve it (e.g. a company that will only get tankcars does not require a rotary dumper, but will require piping and hoses).
That said, I’m sure plenty of people have things like Molasses Mines (yeah, I know of the E.L. Moore article) and such industries on their layout. And with that in mind…no, your “HaveMore industries” never produced any nuclear weapons, unless it is in a somewhat isolated lage area surrounded by strong fencing and walls, and heavily guarded, which tupperware wouldn’t really require. OTOH, [url=https://carlwill
I’ve got the Acme company, and Mom’s Robot Oil. Then there’s the Sal Monella ice company. Not sure where these cannisters are headed…
Hello All,
On my coal pike occasionally one of the mine crews will hit a pocket of Unobtainium (Unb 301).
I have not built a processing plant for this elusive element because no one seems to be able to bring it to the surface in any measurable quantity!
Hope this helps.
I don’t remember who this is, butt here is a member on here who has talked extensively about a fictional factory. He called Liquid Flux I think. He even made up an add for it I remember. Who was that I’m thinking of?
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Chuuton,
I firmly believed that “Lion Logistics” had to do with LEDs, switches, controls, push buttons, control panels and subway lighting and the like and they are out of a small berg in North Dakota.
Their CEO is a funny little Chap that talks in the third person and lives in a monastary. But boy is he talented, and has a great affinity for cats, LARGE CATS.
David, That fellow you are thinking of is Dr. Wayne and here is a pix of his flux Industry Plant.
Dr. Wayne stated,
“And finally (for now, anyway, ’ GERN Industries’ Gibson Works, in Port Maitland, Ont. It’s a combination of Walthers ADM elevator and add-on silos, plus Redwing Milling, lots of .060” sheet styrene, and scratchbuilt details and add-ons:"
Dr. Wayne
Johnboy out…
Years ago before I became serious about industry names I had one called “Burp Beer Breweries”.
[:)]Ah yes ,this is one thing I love to do. I have collected these for years, I will mention only a few from my file. 1. Hardley Able Manufactoring Co. 2. Will B leakey Plumbing Co. Flyybinite Construction Company.W.E.Pullum Dentist. Nott Safe Company. I Have Many More in my file. I use these all over my layout,It creates interest.
Larry,bet you didnt know that micro trains just released their burp o beer car from the 60s. I had one and sold it years ago.
John Armstrong’s layout featured “The Depleted Lugubrium Company of America: Refiners of the Nation’s Saddest Material.”
I don;t have any fanciful industries planned for my layout, but I may make a small office in town for the law firm of Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe, just because I love the Stooges. Or, then there is the band that sounds like it ought to be a law firm - Anderson, Brudford, Wakeman and Howe. Might go with that.
The whole GERN thing is well developed enough that at first glance it doesn’t look particualrly silly, which makes it an ideal fictional industry - those not in the know will think it’s all perfectly legit. Hmm, I wonder if Flux is found in proximity to anthracite coal…
I do actually have a couple of businesses (not rail served industries) planned to honor family members. Earl’s Garage will honor my dad, who at one time in his life (long before I was born) was a mechanic, and who got me into trains from toddler age on up. And when City Classics came out with Walt’s Cafe, I just had to get it, my late Uncle Walt LOVED to go out to eat, and this kit looks like some palce he would have tried.
I’m also trying to find HO scale pug dogs, but so far the only ones I can find come in the Woodland Scenics Full Figured Folks set, and I’m not about to buy 10 of those sets just to get 10 pugs. I plan to have pug scattered all over the layout. Yes, I have 2 real pugs.
–Randy
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I have a soda bottling company named “Beelch” and I’m very close to adding a Bronies Glue Factory, with accompanying My Little Ponies waiting to be led inside 
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Interesting…My Burp beer was 2 kitbashed Revelle Bakery Kits.That was on my freelanced Detroit Connecting Ry switching layout way back in '66.
Nah, Brother Elias would go with more 60s sounding names, like Lion Industries or Lion Holdings.
Now, if you needed an all-purpose ill-defined material that your industrial plant will produce, why not go with one that has it’s own commercial starring well known actors?
Interesting!
I have a building that has never quite got finished, Universal Export is some kind of freight forwarder. I just can not explain why that oriental gentleman in a top hat keeps hanging around…
Have reefers to letter for Koldernell seafood shipping, and once considdered opening a white metal mine, “MW Depole”…
Ya know, I still might just do that! Dan
I also had a store in the middle of one of my towns. It was a combination fishing tackle & electrical supply. It was “Paul’s Bait & Switch”.
Well, -1. [swg]
–Randy