Brewery supporting industries...

[ShadowNix]

Hey All,

I am building an HO scale setup and I love some of the brewery structures of the 1940-50's (I have the Faller and Campbell versions and plan to make a little "brewtown" with both...) I was wondering about supporting industries (bottlemakers, barrel makers, etc.) I plan to provide consumables (hops, wheat, etc.) from staging...

1st, does anyone have any pictures of a bottlemaking plants? Or even better, know of any kits/plans?

2nd, does anyone know of any good barrel making plant kits or pictures?

Thanks for any help! [:)]

Brian

[SpaceMouse]

What a coincidence. I just logged on to post a tutorial on staging and used a brewery as an example.

http://www.chipengelmann.com/Trains/beginner/staging.html

[csmith9474]

I would defianately research Milwaukee's brewery district of that timeframe. I believe it was otherwise known as the "Beer Line", and there is a lot of interesting history along with it.

Edit: there are some cool pics here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sponholz/brewery.html

[SpaceMouse]

Naw, he's got Olympia on his mind. [:D]

[csmith9474]

I am a PBR man, myself![:)]

[johncolley]

ah, the good old days! Before the trucking boom everything came and went by rail except local deliveries. So a brewery would get all its supplies except water. That means grains, hops, yeast, paper stock, cardboard boxes, bottles, cans, kegs, pallets, machinery and equipment, and ship out pallets of cases of bottled or canned beer, and kegs. Scrap machinery, maybe even spent hops and malted grain to a hog farm.

[Anonymous]

Nice website Spacemouse, I bookmarked it.

A brewery will probably send spent Hops to agriculture for cattle feed. I think Crown Cork and Seal in Baltimore is one industry.

There was an article in MR related to Segrams Distillery that was quite good.

You are going to want Barrels, Boxes, nails and Printed Labels for that Brewery as inbound shipments. I think broken glass was also shipped out.

There are several really big threads that focused on industries in these forums and give quite alot of information. A Brewery, Distillery and related industies can pretty much support a town of good size.

[Anonymous]

Good God. Talk about rotgut.

QUOTE: Originally posted by csmith9474

I am a PBR man, myself![:)]

[ShadowNix]

Thanks all for the info (and the great link....) MMMMM.... beer. <burp> ;)

Brian