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My layout will be about 16'x21', and what I've got planned so far, is kitbashing a couple Walthers Glacier Gravel kits into a large rock quarry crushing/processing plant, which will ship out around 10-15 cars each session, some of these will be delivered (after a trip off the layout on the hidden continuous loop) to a concrete processing facility (Walthers Valley Cement), and a few carloads to an asphalt hot mix plant (Walthers Black Gold Asphalt, which will also see a steady stream of oil tank cars). Then from the concrete processing facility, processed concrete will be shipped in covered cement hoppers to a cement distribution plant (Medusa Cement) and trucked to a mixing plant (Blue Star Ready Mix) nearby. I live about 30 minutes from the famous Stone Mountain, in Georgia, and while most of the aggregate industry in this area is now shipped by truck, nearly every aggregate industry I've mentioned so far was once served by the CSX line that runs through this area. We have about 6 quarries just between Covington (where I live) and Lithonia (which is about 10 minutes from Stone Mountain). There are cement plants, rock quarries, asphalt transfer terminals... just about everything you could need for a complete aggregate industry on a layout. But since I also love coal mines, I'm also going to have a shortline modeled after the Turtle Creek Central and branchline (MRR January 2005) that interchanges with the CSX mainline on the layout. I haven't decided if I'm going to have a 'delivery point' for the coal yet (it would be Walthers Tri State Power), or if it will just be interchanged and taken off the layout and swapped with empties. Since the granite rock and gravel industry is something that I can see in person right up the street, I thought it would be a great thing to model on my layout. The story behind my line is 'loosely' based on the aggregate industry here, being CSX here in Georgia, and the branchline will be renamed the Great Walton RR (the local shortline here in Covington), but instead of hauling woodchip hoppers (their current once a week train from a pulpwood plant nearby), it will be coal (Walthers New River Mining). I start buying lumber this weekend for construction (about $350 worth), and this summer my income will be increasing alot once a couple bills are finally paid off, so I'm hoping to have all of the track laid by the end of summer, and most of the structures in place by fall. Along the way, I'll be adding locos and rolling stock. It'll also be totally wired for DCC, block occupancy detection, and signalling. But in order to keep it a 'hands on' railroad, I'll most likely have all caboose industries 202s ground throws on the turnouts. Anyways, I think I've rambled enough for one night (it's late, and I'm at work... yes I get paid to sit and surf the net all night... three days a week... AND it's a full time job! lol) Hope yall have a great weekend Jeremy
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