When did California figure out the brick thingy? (Layout Floor Plan Added.)

[twhite]

Spacemouse--go with the brewery, especially the era you're modeling. Back then, just about every town in California had their own brewery. In fact in Nevada City, the brewery was built before the National Hotel, which dates from about 1860. If there was anything that the miners from Cornwall and the loggers from Scandinavia wanted after a hard day's work, it was a good, cold brew. Many places in the Sierra had 'ice farms' (frozen ponds) and would ship the ice packed in sawdust to the local saloons. You might think about that, too, it might give you a chance to use some early refrigerator cars (they were being used by the 1880's in California) to ship from ponds to breweries. A pulp-mill would be kind of out of place in the Sierra (more common to the Northeast or Southeast), you'd actually be sending your logs to planing mills in the foothills. But a brewery--ah, yes!!
Tom
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[vsmith]

My entire layout is centered around a brewery/distillery, my rail tram services it and is named after the brewery company..The Borracho RR.

FYI Jetrock or anyone interest in the San Francisco Earthquake
read this book!

Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake, by Dan Kurzman and

Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire or 1906, by Gladys Hansen

Both these tell the historical truth behind the disaster, the death toll and the coverup afterwords. Detailed research shows that unlike the "official" death toll of 478, the true death toll was a minimum of 3500, 6000 being more likely as many people were undocumented or transient, some estimates are as high as 10,000 were killed by the quake or the fire. The State Militia troops organized to "keep the peace" openly looted, were often drunken and armed and murdered many people. The state and local officials hide the true count to avoid panicking east coasters and mid westerners immigrating to the west coast and to avoid panicking Wall Street investors who might dump west coast company stocks. A real eye opener!

[SpaceMouse]

Borracho

I haven't been called that since I moved East.

[Jetrock]

QUOTE:
I was kinda planning on putting a pulp mill next to the yard, but if the logs travelled by ship and not by rail, I think I'll figure some other use of the space. may be a slaughter house. I can put a ranch or two on the upper level.

There were plenty of mills up there--lumber mills, shingle mills, barrel factories, I think even a toothpick mill. Logs were processed locally at small mills all over the Northcoast. Isn't a lumber mill what you wanted to model originally, SpaceMouse?

Slaughterhouse? Hm. The Northcoast was *NOT* cattle country, therefore there wouldn't be much reason for a slaughterhouse, other than maybe a local butcher doing slaughtering for nearby farms. There wouldn't be a slaughterhouse requiring rail service, I don't think.

twhite: SpaceMouse is modeling the Northcoast, not the Sierras.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse

QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Mouse, this has nothing to do with bricks, but is L'il Guy's rear truck derailed in that picture?

Shhhhh! I was hoping no one would notice.[:D]

I just assumed that the crowd had gathered to see the Diesel grind up the ties, or towatch the work crew try to get her back on the rails.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse

Borracho

I haven't been called that since I moved East.

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[trainboyH16-44]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse

QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Mouse, this has nothing to do with bricks, but is L'il Guy's rear truck derailed in that picture?

Shhhhh! I was hoping no one would notice.[:D]

I think you can still make it work, if you count that crane. It looks like it has come to clean up a derailment.[;)]
Trainboy

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse

QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Mouse, this has nothing to do with bricks, but is L'il Guy's rear truck derailed in that picture?

Shhhhh! I was hoping no one would notice.[:D]

I think you can still make it work, if you count that crane. It looks like it has come to clean up a derailment.[;)]
Trainboy

I got so much flack about having that back wheel off, I sent in the crew. Of course, that kind of thing always draws a crowd. (But you are the first to figure it out.)