I grew up in the Norristown, PA area.
It could be almsot anything.
Manufacturing (screws, bolts, locks, hardware, machine parts, safes, typewriters, adding machines, etc., etc)
Paper products (cardboard boxes, printing, books, etc.)
Textiles (cloth, oil cloth, clothing, blankets, tents, hats, etc.)
Warehousing (anything that will keep and can be put in a box or can)
Food production (canning, bottling, pasta, nuts, candy, etc).
Pretty much any manufacturing or production that has been done in the US since the 1700's that will fit in a multistory brick building.
The spur can run alongside the building on the side with loading doors. The boiler house would be along the end of the spur probably with a trestle or open pit under the last car length of track, long enough to spot a hopper car. the hopper would dump into that pit and the coal would be conveyored underground up into the boiler house. the boiler would probide steam for heat, power, steam operated machinery or a steam engine to drive belts or a generator to run the machinery or a process that uses steam for heating, melting or sizing material.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
Hi everyone,
I'm working on a small N-scale layout based on MRR "Carolina Central" featured in the Dec 1996 issue, but located in central - eastern Pennsylvania. Following the original plan, I've bought and built up the Kibri 1871 Factory Buliding + Boiler House and Chimney (items # 7223 and 7224). They look nice, but I'd like to arrange prototype operations on the layout and I have no idea at all of what such a factory can manufacture or produce in the Pennsy area. Can anyone help me identify a believable, prototype production line for it? Thanks in advance for the help - Roberto