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<p>Ive always liked the B&O with some very heavy WM, Ma and Pa, PRR, Southern and EBT influence. I keep three different time periods. One pre ww1, one post ww2 and one chessie era for anything 1965 on to the 80's If I was to get into CSX? Well, it may not happen anytime soon.</p><p>I freelance my road as if it was a division of the B&O and try to keep things rather simple with no fixed reference to real life location. I run this road for me and maybe someday for others to visit and operate as a crew when sufficiently finished.</p><p>With that said here is the industrial matrix I have so far.</p><p>Falls Valley</p><p>Team Track.</p><p>a- Crane</p><p>b- Platform</p><p>c- Conveyor availible for material like rock, sand, coal etc.</p><p>d- pump shack for tanker to tractor trailer either air or fluid transfer.</p><p>Let's say I dont have room to model a full town right now. This team track recieves loads like... a new Cat Road Grader off a flatcar to a local construction company busy building a road "Off layout"</p><p>Or it can ship furnature like a sofa into a LCL boxcar or several peices at once without having to model a furnature factory. The local trucking company will take care of the team track transfer freight and provide me with a variety of loads in or out (Or both) Like News print rolls and a few hours later news papers out of the LCL warehouse nearby.</p><p>Cold Storage- Perishables of all kinds down to zero degrees. Has a ice rack to handle reefers as well.</p><p>Warehouse. That shipment of dutch made brooms will take a while to sell as people need them for the season. Need a place to store it until the store in town puts in a order for a few more.</p><p>Creamery. Milk tanker cars come in early in the morning and fill from farmers bring cans of raw milk. Eventually that milk car goes to the big city to be turned into milk, butter etc and to be cleaned.</p><p>Feed mill. I dont have too much specfic for it, the best I can do is bring in molasses that has been used up at Dominos in Baltimore and turn it to bagged feed for live stock. It will do until I expand the product line.</p><p>Oil depot and Coal dealer. Self explanitory. I do have a tanker truck and a few dumps availible to pretend to move the fluids and coal to various customers from industry to homes not modeled on the layout. Even a little bit of pressure natural gas; I used some walmart vision dome magnifiers painted silver for semi buried tanks to save on space.</p><p>Power plant with a oil back up. This industry makes use of spare modulars and recieve coal cars and tank cars of fuel oil as a backup fuel. When the water level is too low on the hydro dam in another part of the area the plant picks up the slack. Not too busy but fairly constant work.</p><p>One ball bearing industry. takes in coils, rounds and other items and ships completed bearings ranging from those used in cars, trucks, aircraft propellers to big 10 foot rings used in cranes, shipyards and such. Not exactly finished yet but relies on the town's existing rail service to fill in gaps in the inbounds and outs.</p><p>It sort of has a stake in a little something of ownership of half the town, other businesses etc to ensure it's continued survival as a colossus of make believe manufactoring.</p><p>The real reason is I wanted a industry that can be switched when the mood strikes. =) As if the town isnt enough work already.</p><p>I have a mine. Until I find a spot for that mine, I cannot do anything yet. But I know that there will be about 12 hopper cars of various grades of coal generated daily. some of those cars will be used locally and a few gets interchanged out.</p><p>Going to be interesting when the local is confronted with the mine turn hogging the track with a passenger train due in 20 minutes. My problem is a triple track lap siding, a tower and associated scheduling is enough to bring a strong man down to his knees when all three trains meet in the same corner.</p><p>That is it for the industry situation on my road. I know the post is a bit long but most of the buildings sit on the in-progress benchwork seeking final placement.</p><p>Most of the rolling stock is in captive service some will be floaters that might show up one session and not be seen again for the next three depending on how the car cards work out.</p><p>Finally, there is always bridge traffic. Freight going through going somewhere else without stopping. The biggest are the auto parts in the big 86 foot boxcars. When those show up, well... inhale and pull that gut in as they pass by.</p><p>After getting all of this to work, scenery goes in; THAT is going to take some time. The future expansion will require the railroad to be in a state of mobility until moved to it's final space.</p>
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