Without freight, most railroads wouldn't survive so what industries does your railroad (proto or freelance) cater to?
Mr. LMD, Owner, founder
The Central Chicago & Illinois Railroad
For my modern layout. I have....
OilCoalEthanolIntermodal
Those are the four big industries I have for my prototype.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
My railroad cater to
-Bagged charcoal
-Bricks
-Dry bagged cement
-mineral
-mail
-steel products
-Lumber
-Lumber built products
-Imported goods via barge
Mine are, logs, lumber, cattle, milk, other dairy, oil and every manner of crated freight. I have a carfloat interchange so just about anything can come that way.
rrebell Mine are, logs, lumber, cattle, milk, other dairy, oil and every manner of crated freight. I have a carfloat interchange so just about anything can come that way.
Cool
For my modern era freelanced layout:
Freight:
-grain elevators X3
-medium sized fertilizer facility
-medium sized animal feed stores/agricultural goods/farmers co-op
-CAT heavy equipment dealership
Passenger:
-one nostalgic tourist train (EMD F7a and F7b with streamliner passenger/vist dome cars).
-plans to acquire a small Amtrak consist...just plans right now
Happy modeling!
Don.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly."
Brewery (three spurs)
Printing plant (two spurs)
EMD.Don For my modern era freelanced layout: Freight: -grain elevators X3 -medium sized fertilizer facility -medium sized animal feed stores/agricultural goods/farmers co-op -CAT heavy equipment dealership Passenger: -one nostalgic tourist train (EMD F7a and F7b with streamliner passenger/vist dome cars). -plans to acquire a small Amtrak consist...just plans right now Happy modeling! Don.
we have a winner lol
NittanyLion Brewery (three spurs) Printing plant (two spurs)
How many cars a day?
just about anything farmers and apple distributors can respectively shoehorn into cars or fight with to remove from the cars.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Burlington Northern #24 just about anything farmers and apple distributors can respectively shoehorn into cars or fight with to remove from the cars.
How much do you charge? :)
I will and/or do have a few agricultural type industries on the layout. The big business though will be a Rocky Mountain Pusher Station. With all the track and service buildings required to keep those monsters in fighting form, it will take up a lot of space and thus be the centre of attention on my layout.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Like most switching lines the customer base changes.
Current customers:
SCR handles:
Food stuffs
Plastics
Tobacco
Alcohol beverages
crushed glass
steel pipes
construction equipment
Lumber
Line poles
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Summerset Ry.
Foodstuffs
Manufactured goods.
Scrap rubber
Scrap plastic.
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Huron River
Grain
Chemicals.
Larry
Conductor.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Mr. LMD Burlington Northern #24 just about anything farmers and apple distributors can respectively shoehorn into cars or fight with to remove from the cars. How much do you charge? :)
BRAKIE Like most switching lines the customer base changes. Current customers: SCR handles: Food stuffs Plastics Tobacco Alcohol beverages crushed glass steel pipes construction equipment Lumber Line poles -------------- Summerset Ry. Foodstuffs Manufactured goods. Scrap rubber Scrap plastic. ------------------ Huron River Grain Manufactured goods. Chemicals.
Awesome
Burlington Northern #24 Mr. LMD Burlington Northern #24 just about anything farmers and apple distributors can respectively shoehorn into cars or fight with to remove from the cars. How much do you charge? :) not sure I'd have to dig up prices for the NP, GN, BN, and BNSF. then I'll try to make a realistic price for DRST cars.
I'm sure you will have a profitable line by now.
Burlington Northern #24Mr. LMDBurlington Northern #24just about anything farmers and apple distributors can respectively shoehorn into cars or fight with to remove from the cars. How much do you charge? :) not sure I'd have to dig up prices for the NP, GN, BN, and BNSF. then I'll try to make a realistic price for DRST cars.
Mr. LMDBurlington Northern #24just about anything farmers and apple distributors can respectively shoehorn into cars or fight with to remove from the cars. How much do you charge? :)
Burlington Northern #24just about anything farmers and apple distributors can respectively shoehorn into cars or fight with to remove from the cars.
Have fun with your trains
Texas Zepher Burlington Northern #24Mr. LMDBurlington Northern #24just about anything farmers and apple distributors can respectively shoehorn into cars or fight with to remove from the cars. How much do you charge? :) not sure I'd have to dig up prices for the NP, GN, BN, and BNSF. then I'll try to make a realistic price for DRST cars.Actually at that time period you would not have gotten to make a rate. Rates were regulated by the government. Railroad rates weren't deregulated until the Staggers act of 1980.
I'm building a tannery, which will get its hides from my meat packing plant, along with salt and acid from "elsewhere."
I load coal at a mine and also unload it at a coal and oil dealership at another point on the layout.
I've also got a brewery, a cloth-oriented factory called Moose Mills, and the Powder Milk Biscuit Company. Then there's Interstate Pipe, the Drosophila and Melanogaster Wholesale Fruit warehouse and a scrapyard.
It may not be an "industry," but the icing platform for ice-bunker reefers is very much a part of the process for shipping meat and fruit. It also serves the express reefers that will visit the Railway Express Agency once that's built.
Finally, I have a car float that serves to take goods to and from some unknown place off the layout. Again, it's not an "industry," but it can be thought of as one in the context of operations and switching.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
My Northern Pacific Proto-Lanced layout operates: through freight, local industries and some passenger service. It serves: the railroad itself (Coal, oil, sand and parts for cars and locomotives and general freight) Copper Mining, Logging, Meat Packing, a brewery and a Railroad Express Agency. There are three copper mines served by the line, delivering empty ore cars and picking up loads and delivering mining supplies.
I am very new to operations, although I have been building and running trains on this layout since 1988. I'm finding that keeping the railroad supplied with coal, sand and oil seems to be 50% of my operations. In an interest to learn more about operations and find out if there are other model rails in my area, interested in operations, I joined the OpSIG. Most of the operations in Minnesota appear to be in the Twin Cities, so joining the OpSIG was not much help for me.I probably don't operate prototypically and am content with that.
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
Steel Mill
Coke Ovens To Steel Mill
Coal to Coke Plant
Sugar from Sugar Beets
Wood furniture
Paper and Carboard Boxes
Limestone to sttel mill and Granite for aggregate and cut stone
Pianos
wine
fresh fruit and vegtables
Water heater manufacture
Gravel for ballast
Scrap Iron
Oil dealer
Feed and farm supply
Chain link fence mfg. http://lariverrailroads.com/cyclone.html
Dog food mfg. http://lariverrailroads.com/strongheart.html
Lumber supply
Beer Distributor http://lariverrailroads.com/miller.html
And there are three Freight Stations
Awesome choices guys.
Mine will include mining, a transfer station and a steel mill. I'm still deciding on the industries I want to add later when the layout has progressed.
I'm currently tearing down my modern-era current layout, but it served the following industries:
I'm nowhere near finished planning for this since I have yet to finish tearing down my old layout, but I'm quite excited for the switching opportunities! This plant will keep a switcher and crew busy full-time.
The layout I hope to build someday will be based on a section of CN's mainline between Montreal and Toronto, ideally representing (in some compressed form of course!) the stretch from Brockville to Montreal. Although the focus of my interest is the VIA passenger service on the line, the freights are what pay the bills :P
Major industries along that way that I'd like to model(moving from Brockville east):
-CN metals distribution (Brockville)
-Brockchem (includes Invista, Nitrochem, Dyno Nobel - lots of various tanks!)
-Maitland Ultramar terminal (unit tank trains from QC)
-Kriska (general transfer) and pipe loads at Prescott
-Prescott Grain and Greenfield Ethanol (in Johnstown - again more tanks, and grain and corn hoppers)
-CASCO (Canada Starch) Cardinal (tanks and hoppers)
-Not sure of specific industries from there to Cornwall/Coteau, etc....that area may get "very" compressed, only modelling the VIA station at Cornwall and possibly around Coteau Jct. ;)
The way I'd like to design the layout would have run off to staging at either end (representing points east and points west), as well as the CP interchange at Brockville and maybe even the CSX interchange at Coteau. So that would allow me to run pretty much anything as run-through and interchange freight (lots of autoracks, intermodal, etc.).
-Tim
Loving the ideas and unique industries.
My Toledo Erie Central Railroad's industrial corridor ships just about anything, as it includes a team track, a warehouse and a (proposed) freight station. But among the rail-served industries it ships the following.
Beer and ale
Brewers' grains
Barley
Grain (mainly corn, soybeans and wheat)
Scrap metal
Fabricated metal
Coal
Small auto parts (brakes and suspension)
Manufactured goods (to be determined, industry not yet built)
Joe Staten Island West