My modest Citrus Belt serves the following:
one lemon packing house
one packing house for mixed citrus with ice platform and house
Cut flower distributor and packer, good excuse to incorporate express reefers on a layout otherwise devoid of passenger operations
shook-lumber distributor
Dave
I model a seaport city on an island on the Gulf Coast, the end of the line for Santa Fe and several other trunkline railroads, so NO through traffic, unless you count what is interchanged to and from SHIPS.
INBOUND port cargo (from railroad to ships): wheat, cotton, rice, sulfur, flour, sorghum,
INBOUND consumables used by port operations: pallets, paper sacks, burlap bags, dry ice, industrial gases, steel, pilings, stone, diesel fuel, meat, refrigeration chemicals
OUTBOUND port cargo (offloaded from ship to railroad): bananas, coffee, beans, raw cane sugar, oyster shell, ore, jute, seafood
INBOUND to online city industries: meat. produce, food products, appliances, furniture, automobiles, raw tea, beverages, newsprint, utility poles, pipe, electrical wire, building materials, Portland cement, grain, hops, chicle, LCL & express.
OUTBOUND from city industries: packaged tea, beer, LCL & express.
RAILROAD COMPANY SERVICE: ice, diesel fuel, sand, ballast, refrigerator car salt
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch (still under construction) is loosely based on part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and features the CNW, CCP, CRANDIC and Iowa Northern in the 1987-1993 era.
CNW: Quaker Oats (world's largest cereal mill), Loftus Distributing (wholesale lumber), Paul Jerabek & Sons Distributing (crappy beers), Stickle Enterprises (a little bit of everything and anything), Feder & Sons (junkyard), Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. (pole yard), Roush Products (bakery), Cargill (corn wet-milling operation).
CCP: National Oats (home of 3-Minute Oats), Weyerhauser (cardboard box plant), Vigertone Feeds, Marion Iron Co. (junkyard), Longview Fibre Co. (another box/container plant), Linn Co. COOP (fertilizer), Cargill (soybean plant), Lehigh Cement, Northwestern States Portland Cement.
CRANDIC: Penford Products (starch products), Alter (scrap metal), ADM CornSweetners (corn syrup, corn by-products/feed), Cargill (soybean plant), City Carton (cardboard recycler), Iowa Electric 6th St. power station (coal loads).
Iowa Northern (run-through): grain for Quaker, Cargill, National Oats, ADM, John Deere (loads of tractors out of Waterloo), misc. other traffic to and from Waterloo (bridge traffic for CNW).
***NOTE*** most of these industries will be "off-line" and represented by tracks in staging, however the cars will be handled in transfers between the CNW North Yard and CCP yard, etc.
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Heartland Division – CB&Q RR
List of industries.
Locations ……. Industries …… Commodities
Heartland …….. Railway Express ..…….. Express freight
Heartland ……… CB&Q Freight House …..…. LCL Freight
Heartland ………. U S Post Office …..….. Mail
Heartland ………. Mittlemann Wholesale ….. Inbound food and beverage
Heartland ………. J & G …………..…….. Inbound building materials; aggregates
Heartland ……….. Heartland Power Co. ….. Inbound coal
Heartland ……….. Reggie’s Junk Yard ….. Outbound scrap metal
Valley Heights … Stayle Bread Company …. Inbound flour; Outbound baked goods
Hinterland …….. Hinterland Tannery ……… Inbound hides and acid
Hinterland ……… Shelley Footwear ……… Outbound boots and shoes.
Steel Branch ……. Steel Mill …….. Inbound coal, ore, stone, scrap. Outbound steel
Blackhawk …….. Mickey Mills ….. Inbound grain, coal. Outbound flour.
Blackhawk ….. Heilemann …… Inbound grain, bottles, cartons, cans. Outbound beer
Blackhawk …. Champion Packing. …. Inbound livestock. Outbound hides, meat.
Blackhawk …… Blackhawk Ice ……… Reefers for ice.
Prairie View ….. Prairie View Canning ….. Outbound canned vegetables
Prairie View …… Prairie View Elevator ….. Outbound grain
Prairie View …….. Slick Oil Co. ……. … Inbound fuel oil and gasoline.
Prairie View ….. CB&Q Freight House ….. LCL Freight
Heyday ……. Heyday Stock Yard …………. Outbound livestock (see note)
Heyday ……. Heyday Mining ……………. Outbound coal. (see note)
Note ….. Heyday is currently under construction.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
My Railroad hauls just about everything.
Russell
Awesome industries and customers.
Mr. LMD, Owner, founder
The Central Chicago & Illinois Railroad
My prototype had :
Grain
Salt (barrels, bags, bulk)
Petroleum products (Gasoline, Diesel fuel, Heating oil)
Coal (Company service for steam locomotives, coal dealers)
Road graders
Livestock (cattle and hogs)
Flour
Turnips/Rutabagas (When in season, late fall to spring)
Farm animal feeds
Furniture (Cabinets, Chests)
At least that's the part I plan to model.
Steve
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Heartland Division CB&Q Heartland Division – CB&Q RR List of industries. Locations ……. Industries …… Commodities Heartland …….. Railway Express ..…….. Express freight Heartland ……… CB&Q Freight House …..…. LCL Freight Heartland ………. U S Post Office …..….. Mail Heartland ………. Mittlemann Wholesale ….. Inbound food and beverage Heartland ………. J & G …………..…….. Inbound building materials; aggregates Heartland ……….. Heartland Power Co. ….. Inbound coal Heartland ……….. Reggie’s Junk Yard ….. Outbound scrap metal Valley Heights … Stayle Bread Company …. Inbound flour; Outbound baked goods Hinterland …….. Hinterland Tannery ……… Inbound hides and acid Hinterland ……… Shelley Footwear ……… Outbound boots and shoes. Steel Branch ……. Steel Mill …….. Inbound coal, ore, stone, scrap. Outbound steel Blackhawk …….. Mickey Mills ….. Inbound grain, coal. Outbound flour. Blackhawk ….. Heilemann …… Inbound grain, bottles, cartons, cans. Outbound beer Blackhawk …. Champion Packing. …. Inbound livestock. Outbound hides, meat. Blackhawk …… Blackhawk Ice ……… Reefers for ice. Prairie View ….. Prairie View Canning ….. Outbound canned vegetables Prairie View …… Prairie View Elevator ….. Outbound grain Prairie View …….. Slick Oil Co. ……. … Inbound fuel oil and gasoline. Prairie View ….. CB&Q Freight House ….. LCL Freight Heyday ……. Heyday Stock Yard …………. Outbound livestock (see note) Heyday ……. Heyday Mining ……………. Outbound coal. (see note) Note ….. Heyday is currently under construction.
OMG! Garry, that is an impressive list of industries. We're not worthy.....
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Awesome guys
My proto freelance 50s era Southern branch (in it's current incarnation) handles:
Textile mill: cotton, dyes, and coal (for power) in, finished cloth out. This is the primary industry on the layout and the reason for the railroads existence.
Oil Dealor: Basic, rural gas and oil supply gets the occasional tank car.
Lumber Yard. Every small town in the south had at least one.
Depot & Team Track: Whatever happens to be needed.
If I had room to expand, it would include these other typical small town industries from the era:
Oil Mill. These produced cottonseed oil, animal feed, and fertilizer from cottonseed. Some received seed from gins, others ginned and shipped cotton as well.
Small chemical plant: Textiles used a lot of dyes.
Pulpwood loader. Lots of pulpwood moved in the south.
Peach shed(s) and reefer icing. Upstate SC produced more peaches than Georgia and had an annual run somewhat similar to the citrus run in CA.
If I really had a lot of room and wanted to ramp up the ops, by the 60s and 70s, large, mega synthetic fiber plants were booming in the south. These plants were huge and could swallow whole trainloads of cars. I recall an article from RMC a few years back where someone built a rayon plant as the focus of his layout. That plant alone was bigger than most model railroad spaces.
Hi
My railway was built to the Light Railways Act UK of 1896.
So it shifts just enough of not much rural produce to stay borderline bankrupt.
moves are afoot to extend the small line so it has either a jam factory or brewery to
get enough freight to stay just about bankrupt.
Also take it to the coast where it is hoped a developer will produce a holiday town so the line can run at a profit.
It won't the development won't happen in WWII the jetty will be cut and coastal defenses for the home guard will be built.
After the war some fishing will happen adding just enough freight to stave off closure until the fifties when buses and road transport will finally close the line.
When most of the light railways had been closed for a few years or been long gone.
Most light railways where broke before they opened and never really met with financial success.
Some where quaint a picturesque but that doesn't bring profit or substitute for a good financial base
regards John
I presently have 3 communities:
Greenvale
Greenvale Junction
Sheepcott
I have a number of structures from previous layouts on the shelf that I will add in the future
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
My little shortline (Denver to Golden, Colorado a.k.a. The beer line) has quite a few industries along its right of way. Below is the industries heading east to west along the railroad.
North Yard
- Interchange Yard
- Engine Facilities
- Fueling station
Pecos Street
-Asphalt Plant
Commerce City
- Refinery (2nd largest industry)
- Cement Company
- Meat Packing Plant
- Logistics Warehouse (name Lauston Shipping )
Wheatridge
- Grain elevator
- Team Track
- warehouse ( not sure what the industry is yet)
- Gravel Distributor
Arvada
- Rail Rebuilders (car repair shop)
- Freight house
- Two other yet to be determined industries (tracks are there but don't know what to put on them yet)
Golden
- Coors Brewery (Largest industry on the Railroad and its own shortline Railroad)
- Golden City Oil Distributors
- Coorstek Ceramics
Clear Creek (near Rocky Flats in real life)
- Stockyards
- Gravel mining and crushing facility
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Traction = People, and; small industry/freight in the middle of coal & steel country.
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
I model fictional railroad the Inter County Railway " ICR" in modern day southwestern New Mexico . ICR customers are Hazzard Range Sand, and Gravel with three pits in Hazzard Range County , Green and Clean waste services in Rio Grande Junction NM 13 miles south of Sparta NM , High desert plastic in Sparta NM " might be closing " , Hazzard Range recycling in Sparta NM , Fox's Lumber and Hardware in Sparta , G.D. FEED MILL AND SEED in Mars NM 6 miles south of Sparta and G.D. produce co in Sun NM 9 Miles south of Sparta all of these are in Hazzard Range County . H's Printing company in Nelson NM what is 79 miles North of Sparta in Sweetwater county NM and Big Dog ammunition in Apache NM what is in Apache county NM .Inter County Railway interchanges all loads with BNSF in Nelson NM or in Apache NM .
~ Tim .
To see photos of my HO scale / 1/64 scale layout and diorama photos base in the present day . http://www.flickr.com/photos/icr140/
I model Boston to Providence on the New Haven RR, so my industries are typical of the time and place:South Boston TOFC - Trailers on FlatsBoston Market Terminal - Meat, Fish, perishables in reefersNorthern Ave. Warehouse - General Merchandise in boxcarsNational Furniture - Wood and Furniture in boxcarsBoston Gear - Heavy Machinery and metal in gondolas, boxcars and flatsBoston Stockyard - beef cattle in stockcarsBoston Team - General Merchandise in boxcars, flats, gons, etc.A St. Engine facility - diesel fuel, loco sand and loco maintenance parts in tanks, gons and boxcars.Stop & Shop Warehouse - food in reefers and boxcarsHub Oil & Coal Co. - Oil and coal in tanks and hoppersSullivan Cold Storage - food in reefersWestwood Pipe Co. - metal and pipes in gondolas and flatsRadford Warehouse - General Merchandise in boxcarsGM Parts Warehouse - auto parts in boxcarsStar Market Warehouse - food in reefers and boxcarsRosenfeld Cement - cement in covered hoppersRussell Coal Co. - coal in hoppersCanton Jct. Team - General Merchandise in boxcars, flats, gons, etc.Canton Jct. Warehouse - General Merchandise in boxcarsSharon Heights Coal - coal in hoppersLowney Chocolate - milk in milkcars, chocolate powder in boxcarsChilson Furnace Co. - metal and boilers in gons and flatsKirley Coal Co. - coal in hoppersCard Manufacturing Co. - taps and dies; finished product in boxcarsAutomatic Machine Co. - metal and heavy machinery in boxcarsDexter Mason Supply Co. - bricks, cut stone, etc., in boxcars.Shell Oil Co. - oil and diesel fuel in tanksFirst National Stores Warehouse - food in reefers and boxcarsProvidence Stockyard - beef cattleBrayton Ave. TOFC - trailers on flatsLang Storage Warehouse - General Merchandise in boxcarsNarragansett Grey Iron Foundry - metal and heavy machinery in boxcars, flats and gons.Hercules Powder Co. - chemicals in covered hoppers and tanks
I am probably one of the only model railroaders that has a chocolate factory on the line. :) And for the record, the real Lowney Chocolate plant (several owners later) in Mansfield, MA just closed last year after over 100 years of making chocolate. And in NH days, it did have multiple rail sidings.
Paul A. Cutler III
Well lets see...
Cabinet maker
plywood and wood products
furniture
grocery warehouse
Bubba Burger plant
brewery with grain unloading building
Maxwell House coffee plant
fuel and oil
textiles
two team tracks with ramps
one transloading facility
one railcar to trucking company (so virtually anything)
printing plant
cold storage
The important aspect is not just the industries but the car spots. A total of 36 seperate car spots. Since I only have 40 freight cars total, that spreads them out pretty darn good.
John
The Dames Point Industrial Railroad
http:\\dpirr.blogspot.com
I have (or will have) a total of 10 industries to serve on my layout.
The Mud Hen Brewery - is served by three tracks and is the largest industry on the layout- one track for incoming shipments of barley and outgoing shipments of spent brewers grains; one track for incoming shipments of bottles, cartons, kegs and other beer making supplies and equipment and a third track for finished product, shipped in both insulated boxcars and reefers.
Callahan Auto Parts- outgoing loads of brake and other small auto parts
West Sandusky Co-op: incoming shipments processed and other non-locally grown grains; incoming shipments of fertilizer, both in boxcars and covered hoppers; outgoing loads of corn, soybenas and wheat
A junk yard (not yet built, not yet named)- outgoing scrap
B. P. Oberleitner Foundry Works- incoming shipments of scrap metal and coal; outgoing loads of fabricated steel.
Team track-ships and/or receives just about anything (this facility will have a crane on the site to handle large loads on flat cars and gondolas.
Engine servicing facility- sand, fuel and some parts.
T. A. Aicholz Warehouse- also a cold storage facility for shipping and receiving a variety of menchandise.
Then, there are two other industries planned on a recently expanded portion of the layout, one of which will be a freight house and the other will be a large manufacturing facility which will be served by one, maybe two tracks. I figure that's quite a bit of operating opportunity in 20 linear feet of point-to-point layout, which includes a three track staging area.
I model the PRR New Castle and Wolf Creek branches.
I will have:
Coal
Interchange traffic with Erie RR
Interchange traffic with P&LE
Interchange traffic with B&LE
Less-than-carload-lot shipments
And traffic to and from a steel mill on the east side of the Neshannock Creek (still trying to figure out what it is. The buildings are still there today. If you have any information please message me).
S&S
Modeling the Pennsy and loving it!
Grain elevator, a factory for livestock feeders, and lumber yard.
Generics for most towns on the line,
Pickling Canning Factory (Westfield)
Suger Beets (Plover, Baincroft, Plainfield, Coloma) all out bound
Limestone (Montello) outbound
Timber/Lumber outbound and inbound on line and off
Icing for Reefers (Coloma) and Ice
Coal (in bound Portage and Montello)
Del Monte (actually Montello Foods a subsideary of Green Bay Foods), 1 loading dock, and two drop off slabs for gondolas (the cannery workers scoop out the peas and unshucked corn)
Milk Run, twice a day. Plover to Portage. A Soo Line 4-8-2 leads the charge of 4 express reefers and a Combine. (It's a 4-8-2 because at the time that's what I could get. With the 4-6-2s out now...) In Coloma they pick up any iced reefers heading into Portage for the dairy, usually 3 or 4) . In Portage train is detached and previous one is reattached. Combine and ER's have empty cans, the loaded Reefers are for Plover where they are interchanged to Green Bay. On the fast clock you have 1.5 hrs to get from Plover to Portage and make pick up stops for milk and incidental passengers. The distance is 57miles, 4 stops not including start and stoping stations, and after you pick up the reefers in Coloma you are speed limited. The return trip isn't nearly so hurried.
Occasional passenger train, rerouted due to unforeseen maintence issues, mostly Soo, occasionally the Twin Cities Hiawatha, and sometimes the 400.
I created a monster post and I love it muahahahhahahaha lol
I tell ya, us modelers have some great ideas when it comes to modeling and even better ideas when its putting that mind to work.
I love you guys comments and railroad industries.
Yes, this has been great. It has helped me get some ideas for the additonal industries that I will need for my railroad. Please keep it up.
Ira
caldreamer Yes, this has been great. It has helped me get some ideas for the additonal industries that I will need for my railroad. Please keep it up. Ira
As long as the post continue to have modelers commenting.