A lot of impressive industries here guys and girls.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Coal is the entire reason for the existence of the Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo - one tiny operation cleaning out a well-worked mine (wooden shacks among the abandoned foundations) and one that loads out about 1500 tons/day. Inbounds go to the freight stations (LCL,) the mine supply spur (A lot of stuff goes into the ground to get coal out) and the company store (busy enough to rate its own spur.)
The major industry served directly by the Nihon Kokutetsu is the terminal of the Kashimoto Forest Railway. There's a fairly small lumber mill, but most of the logs that come out of the woods on 762mm gauge disconnects get transloaded to JNR flats and long gons with the bark still on.
My major industry is the railroad itself. Most through trains change engines, cars get traded from locals to through trains or vice versa. Most traffic is just passing through, from somewhere in Japan to somewhere else in Japan. After all, the area I model is one of the least densely populated in the country, rating rather light passenger service - only one limited express and two stopping locals per hour...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Focus for me is forestry, with a logging branch feeding a sawmill complex that ships out product (lumber and chips) by rail.
There are two main industries. The first is a plastics plant in the city.
And the second is from my small town. It is a grain elevator.
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I have many small industries on my small N Scale home layout plus passenger operations. Coal town spur with a breaker and an elevator, Miracle Manufacturing spur, Consolidated Interstate freight warehouse spur, Pennsylvania Power & Light, No. 2 Cold Storage, Slurps Sodas, a flour mill, an iron forge, an oil dealer, a plastics plant, a grain elevator, a feed and seed warehouse, and a small cement plant. Plus two small town depots and two commuter platforms, plus the village of East Penn which sports a fire station, police station, A & P, Rexall Drugs, Railroad Hotel, and a couple of additional shops and restaurants plus a small residential area.
Produce is my larget industry , I have 2 produce warehouses and a track in the harbor for inbound bananas
I have 2 warehouses/factories that supply constant traffic to the RR.
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My main industry is a fully integrated steel mill. It has 2 blast furnaces, a scratch built BOF, an electric furnace, an open hearth shop with six furnaces, seven mills, a dock with one (soon to be 2 scratch built hulles) and all of the other major buildings you will find in an integrated steel mill. It is on a 5 X 7 foot section on the lower level of the layout.
A Rocky Mountain pusher station/mantenance facility. It will need coal, sand, water and diesel tanks. Also MOW equipment and bad order cars being dropped off. Also lot's of company housing.
This will allow me lots of engines on the move as lashups are made up and taken apart and sent to the roundhouse etc. Most of my 18' x 6' bench will be this facility so I'll need a lot of engines to fill it.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
The only industry to be seen on my road is mineral hauling and specifically, only uranium ore mines, buildings and operations during the war. While trains may contain combine cabooses, box cars and haul other things. There is no place for those things to go except the tiny towns along the way. It will be all mines and mills. Not one passenger car on the 56 mile route. (at least none planned.)
Richard
If I can't fix it, I can fix it so it can't be fixed
On my home layout the biggest industry so far is the Fisher Body, Ternstedt plant. It measures 18' long and has 14 spots. Wish I knew how to post a pic.
I forgot to post pics for my post above, so here they are.
My layout exist to serve the citrus industry for which is the purpose of the Citrus Heights and Lemcova packing houses, additionaly, there is the need to address the lumber/shook needs of these packing houses which Byrrd Lumber Shook/Sash & Irrigation fulfills, bit players are a oil/smudge dealer and team track.
Dave
Like many people, it's just me, myself and I for the railroad.
As you probably can tell by the name of my railroad and by the logo (Forest Railway), the main industry is logging and log products. I have a switchback for log loading (Walthers log cars), a woodchip transfer facility (Walthers bulk transfer plant) from kitbashed Athearn 34' RS hoppers (based on an NP prototype [36' vs 34']) to some E&C 62' WC hoppers.
I also have a printing plant that is a kitbashed Pikestuff engine house with a few other Pikestuff components. It also has a Walthers propane tank built and piped in for power (rural enviroment-no natural gas).
I also have a team track setup in the same area as the woodchip transfer with a freight storage and transfer building bashed from 3 Laube Linen Mill kits. (It is one of the 3 largest buildings on my layout as one would expect. 3 window panels on one side and and the loading dock door on the other side and two panels on the ends with a pilaster cut from the third panel for insertion between the panels.) This industry even has a CSX blue, GN orange and white Athearn SW7! (Yes, I am a rather rabid Denver Bronco fan. )
There is also a car ferry dock and yard. (I know that doesn't prototypically fit in Eastern Montana, but I saw it in a MRP many years ago and the idea stuck.) There is also a large DPM modular building for keeping cars dry. (3 panels wide by 6 or 7 long with a 1 panel x 1 panel office. It also has a deck behind the office for the employees for breaks and such.)
Can't forget about the passenger station for commuters and the tourist line in planning. Tourist line uses 3 2-6-0s and Roundhouse overton cars.
Quite busy overall. (At least in theory. I don't get to operate it that much. My layout and I are not in the same place.)
Doc Wayne, I love the Flux plant. You need to do an article for MR on the plant, but you have way to much time on your hands if you can make advertisements for the the Flux industry. I'm encouraged to know I'm not the only nut that likes to model full sized(well condensed full sized) industries. Some of us make freelanced railroads, it's good to see someone doing freelanced industries.
Thanks for your kind words, Strider. The ads were all done by my brother, who originated the name back in the '50s when we were kids. There are currently about three dozen people around the world modelling GERN in one form or another, as it's a great traffic generator. I periodically send out the ads as he comes up with them, but he's not a modeller, so that's sometimes sporadic.
Wayne
Team Track yards with other industries sprinkled in. At one point a temporary tresstle was built across the swamps to deliver granite blocks to construct the Lincon Mamorial. Location is Georgetown, Washington D.C.
Kelly
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could you post pictures or send me pictures of your steel mill facility? i really want to do a huge steel mill facility i work in the steel mill servicing industy my e mail is prrfan59@gmail.com
thank you george