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I went over and checked out the web site for the NMRA OpSig database at http://www.opsig.org/industrydb/ as someone suggested. Despite their reticence to use Excel (I'm pretty good with it) I brought the files up in a spreadsheet and the "gozintas & gozouttas" in the list are not very useful. They are basic and pretty crude. For example the materials used in a foundry mostly state "sand." A few mention steel. But if one were making cast iron stoves scrap metal might be more appropriate in a contemporary setting because of recycling while for the 1890s it might be a different raw material. And as someone else pointed out there's packing and shipping material (today it would be skids and early in the 20th century probably wood to make crates. There might even be a whole woodworking shop. It would be nice to have a better database. But I suppose one would have to pay for that. I'm hoping someone comes up with a better answer cause it would be a great resource.
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