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Posted by prrfan59 on Friday, January 24, 2014 7:35 PM

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

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Posted by skray775 on Friday, January 24, 2014 6:07 PM

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.

 

 

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, January 24, 2014 5:33 PM

Thanks for your kind words, Strider.   Big Smile   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.


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Posted by strider on Friday, January 24, 2014 3:01 PM

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.

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Posted by FRRYKid on Friday, January 24, 2014 1:38 AM

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. Big Smile)

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.)

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Posted by West Coast S on Thursday, January 23, 2014 7:53 PM

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.  

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Posted by ALEX WARSHAL on Thursday, January 23, 2014 7:15 PM

I forgot to post pics for my post above, so here they are. 

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Posted by strider on Thursday, January 23, 2014 6:59 PM

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.

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Posted by narrow gauge nuclear on Monday, December 30, 2013 4:33 PM

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.)

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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:04 PM

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.Whistling

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Posted by caldreamer on Sunday, December 29, 2013 5:07 PM

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.

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Posted by ALEX WARSHAL on Saturday, December 28, 2013 12:18 PM

I have 2 warehouses/factories that supply constant traffic to the RR.

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Posted by carknocker1 on Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:29 AM

Produce is my larget industry , I have 2 produce warehouses and a track in the harbor for inbound bananas

 

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Posted by Pantherphil on Saturday, December 28, 2013 10:51 AM

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.

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Posted by wp geeps on Saturday, December 28, 2013 9:48 AM
My personal layout has several industries, the largest is Davis Machine Shop Inc. that has a four track yard. I actually work there and the abandoned WP/Sacramento Northern road goes right by it. On the layout it serves as a fabrication/repair shop. From there trains go to Butte Sand and Gravel then onto ADM Rice. Davis Machine actually builds equipment and parts for both industries and by freelancing a new WP road can ship to both. I will get a pic posted asap.
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Posted by rogerhensley on Saturday, December 28, 2013 6:38 AM

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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Posted by Pathfinder on Saturday, December 28, 2013 12:13 AM

Focus for me is forestry, with a logging branch feeding a sawmill complex that ships out product (lumber and chips) by rail.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Friday, December 27, 2013 11:44 PM

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...

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Posted by Jimmy_Braum on Friday, December 27, 2013 9:34 PM

A lot of impressive industries here guys and girls.

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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).  

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Posted by ACY Tom on Friday, December 27, 2013 5:12 PM

No club & no personal layout right now.  Retirement looms.

 

The plan is to model a significant portion of the Akron Canton & Youngstown (Northern Ohio) as it was in 1953.  The largest single customer would be the limestone diggings at Carey, Ohio.  Agricultural products would be an important secondary source of traffic, including grain elevators, livestock, etc.  Also some coal deliveries to power plants. 

 

Possibly the biggest single "industry" would be what Tony Koester has called the universal industry: Interchange.  Traffic from the Akron-Barberton area went west from Akron and was interchanged to the B&O, NYC, PRR, NKP, and DT&I at several points to be forwarded to points all over the country.  At these multiple interchange points, I would be able to showcase my collection of equipment from many Ohio railroads.

 

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Posted by mactier_hogger on Friday, December 27, 2013 4:42 PM

wp8thsub

Probably the largest single industry on my layout is a cement plant.  A maximum of about 14 cars can be spotted there at once.

 

 

 

 

 

I like that!

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Posted by peahrens on Friday, December 27, 2013 3:47 PM

I have limited space in my 5' x 10' or so HO layout.  The largest space utilized is the engine service area:

Another feature is the refinery and loading rack:

A 5-track freight yard (not shown) takes up a bit of space.  Other items added will be smaller businesses.

Paul

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Posted by csxns on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 2:13 PM

My RR serves PPG Industries,Case Farms and Duke Power the largest industries.

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Posted by davidmurray on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 11:46 AM

Hi Guys:

I have a glass bottle and jar manufacturing plant.  Lots of sand in from off line, pallets and cardboard boxes in from on line.

Glass jars out,on and off line. Glass bottles off line.

There is also an iron ore branch line, with eight ore cars out a day, plus general services cars such as tankers of heating oil,lubricants, new truck tires, lights for inside the mill, etc.

David Murray

modelling a fictionally CN branch in southern Ontario

 

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Posted by Medina1128 on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 10:36 AM

I only have my personal layout, but there are two major industries are lumber and coal mining. The mining operation is complete, except for the need to add some peoples. The lumber company has the lumber warehouse, with the mill itself to be built.

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 10:14 AM

The major industry on the Boothbay Railway Village layout is the Dragon Products cement plant and limestone quarry. The plant produces Portland cament and agricultural lime in bags and in bulk covered hoppers

The secondary industry is the roundhouse and servicing area

On my home layout, the industry is a Dragon Products cement storge silo and batch plant, where covered hoppers arrive and trucks leave with dry bulk trailers of cement or cement mixers take ready-mix to jobsites. This area is being rebuilt

A secondary industry is the Counrty Kitchen bakery

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 1:06 AM

Not a club member, but the biggest industry on my own layout is GERN Industries "Gibson Works", in Port Maitland, Ontario.  The modelled portion represents about 1/3 of the actual plant, with the other 2/3 involved in shipping by lake boats during the summer months.  That doesn't, of course, include the actual flux mines, which stretch out for several miles beneath the lakebed.

 

They mine raw flux from under adjacent Lake Erie, and process it into useful forms and products for all sorts of other industries.

There are spots for approximately 14 cars, depending on what's being shipped or received, but the facility is often switched two or three times per day.
Inbound loads are mostly barrels, sacks, and drums for shipping, along with processing machinery and supplies, and various chemical additives.  Outbound cars include covered hoppers for various grades of bulk flux and boxcars for processed and packaged flux products, along with tank cars carrying liquid flux products and by-products.




And a few of GERN's fine products:





Don't be fooled by imitators:


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Posted by BIG JERR on Tuesday, December 24, 2013 11:01 PM

 

wp8thsub

Probably the largest single industry on my layout is a cement plant.  A maximum of about 14 cars can be spotted there at once.

 

 

 

 

I think you have done some  weathering on this since the last pict sean ,lookin good Rob ..Jw

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Posted by Paul3 on Tuesday, December 24, 2013 10:35 PM

At my club, our largest industry is a steel mill, with two 20-car raw material tracks (for ore, coke and limestone), a blast furnace, a basic oxygen converter, an ingot stripper building, and a rolling mill.  The rolling mill will ship out 8 gons per operation session, and the steel converter will take in 4 loads of scrap.

My home layout's biggest "industry" are my 2 TOFC terminals, which can each handle 8 x 75' flats.  For an actual industry, it's one of my warehouse buildings with 6 car spots.  This warehouse takes in boxcars for truck lading for local shipping.  Actual lading may be anything from cigarettes (hey, it's the '50's) to automotive parts.

Paul A. Cutler III

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