What are your major industries?

[Anonymous]

I was just curious what industries you guys model. I model many small businesses and a steel works. The small businesses are scattered through my large town. I have some enjoyable switching in this area. I have to clear the main for the steel trains and passenger trains. I'm satisfied! I wonder what you guys model? Thanks.[:D][:D][:D]

[markpierce]

My layout is in the planning stage, to occupy a bedroom. It consists of a branch line with two towns: the branchline terminal and the junction with the mainline (the mainline other than the junction town consists of hidden double-ended storage tracks.) The branchline terminal town contains a pumice plant, warehouse, freight house, stock pen, feed mill, team track, bulk petroleum products distributor, and a building products supplier (represented by a hidden track.) The main industry is the pumice plant, served by four spurs and approached via a switchback. There is also provision for an industry along the branchline which I haven't identified yet, but will probably be a mineral loading facility. The junction town has a freight house, team track, and a U.S. Army base, with the base represented by a hidden storage track. Both towns contain locomotive servicing facilities (requiring fuel, sand, etc. deliveries) which I also consider "industries."

[Anonymous]

my layouts purpose is to serve a Grain elevator in Nebraska and the very larg Flour mill in Iowa. the mill takes up like 1x3 feet of my layout

[Anonymous]

Corn products (ADM), plastics (DuPont), and farm equipment (John Deere).

Farms and corn silos.

In other words, what we have about the QC-Clinton Iowa area.

All "in process" at this time ...

[dehusman]

steel and iron, iron products, agricultural, rock and paper.

Dave H.

[BRAKIE]

The C&HV major customers are:
1.Pillisbury
2.Landmark.
3.Valley Produce Dist.
4.Honey Creek Meat Processors.
5.North American Knitting.
6.American Steel Tubing.
7..Williams Steel Plate Corp.
8.Ohio Power.
9.Ohio Valley Grocery Dist.
10.Connleys Dist.
11.Wellman's Manufacturing
12.Anchor Hocking Glass
13.P&B Chemicals
14.Del-Ray Canning Corp.
15.Holgate Plastics.

[ericsp]

Oil refinery
Portland cement terminal
Lumber mill
Tomato processing plant
Packing house
Team track
Intermodal terminal

[Anonymous]

My layout has a small by-passed town in its center with all the staple businesses including a rail depot, hotel, gas station, general store, bank, dry goods store, cafe, fire department, school and church. It's main industry is the logging mill up on the mountain side. I named it Pine Mountain thinking there was no place on earth actually named that, but one day discovered there actually are a couple of places in the US named Pine Mountain, one of which is out in California...

[Train 284]

I only have one major industry on my layout which is a coal mine, but I also have buisness from a couple local buisnessess.

Matt

The Shasta Central Railroad

[Anonymous]

Proud passenger modeller!

[Anonymous]

For those of you who like citrus packing houses or the citrus industry as it relates to the railroads, you are cordially invited to join a new hobby group devoted to modeling the citrus industry. The group is the Citrus Industry Modeling Group and is located at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/ on Yahoo. Membership is free.

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Group Owner & Moderator
Mission Viejo, CA

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[Anonymous]

Number one is a coal mine and a refinery plus a passenger station. My layout is set in Appalachia so coal is king.

[Adelie]

Industries along the Bunter Ridge are mostly timber related. They include a sawmill, lumber yard, hardwood processor, paper mill, box and paper manufacturer, printer, crate maker, casket company, and two furniture makers.

Un-timber industries include a commercial baker and a creamery.

As construction continues, there may be others that pop up. They do a fair amount of business in LCL shipments and ore, plus food shipment (demonstrated by the number of reefers).