The Virtual Interchange and Shipping Office

[Fergmiester]

This is not a new idea as I saw it on one of the other forums but I figure with many of us here from all parts of the Globe it could be rather ammusing to see where are merchandise or raw materials will land up and on who's siding.

As this is virtual no money will change hands and the following agreement will be in place:

No tarrif barriers
Free Trade only
No monopolizing[:(!]
No Hostile takeovers[:-^]
No empty shipments [:0]

Just trading loads and trying to figure which route is the easiest.

The MESS is now offering the following

Fresh/Frozen Fish Reefer service 30 Loads/week
Coal 60 loads/daily
Gypsom 60 loads/ Week
Pulp 20 loads /week
Timbers 30 loads/week
Processed wood 30 loads /week
Lobster 20 loads /week
Maple Syrup 100,000 gallons( when in season)

MESS is now accepting:

Grapes 20 loads
Wine bottles 10,000 cases
Corks 50 cases
Holiday Makers/tourists 100 /day
Fresh Produce 15 loads/week Fall/ Winter/Spring


MESS also provides access through it's ice free port at Mulgrave Canso Straits to European Markets. Mulgrave is the closest ice port to Europe and offers competive rates.

[Anonymous]

Interesting idea!

I have not entirely worked out volumes, but the Marlpost sub (southern Ontario) generates these commodities:

Grain
Milk
Passengers
Cattle
Lumber
anything else that can be shipped from the team track

and receives these:

Coal
Ice
Passengers
Cattle (for layover only, as per shipping rules)
just about anything at the team track (the town has a tractor dealer, for example)

Of these, perhaps the lumber, grain, passengers (and maybe cattle, but some processing is required) might be shipped to Europe.


Andrew

[Anonymous]

I have not worked out volumes or even names as this is in final planning for future construction of a pernament layout so, without further ado...

Falls Valley Railroad offers:

Bridge traffic to ports on the mid atlantic coasts with emphasis on Merchandise, Grain export, Meat and Produce, Machinery and Coal. Return Traffic includes imports, Banannas, Fruits, Salt, Cement, Bearings and Machinery as well as overseas merchandise.

Generates:

Distillery, Bottling Plant
Stone quarry
Munitions, AAresnal and Troops to and from installations, forts and bases in area/overseas
Produce and Cider (Apples, Watermelon, Pumpkins etc when in season)
Lumber
Mail and Express
Seafood
Tobacco
Steel and Aluminum
LCL (Both to and from)
Scrap steel and aluminum
Foundry
Charcoal and Brick
Dairy and Milk products
Team Track
TOFC

Requires

Factory parts of various types to support manufactoring
West Coast produce
Meats
Grocery
Building materials
Machinery
Merchandise
Glass and can stock
Pipe and large structural parts
POL (Gas, Oil, Avgas, Bunker Fuel, Coal etc)
Agricultural products
LCL (Both to and from)
Maritime (For support of shipping -example Rope, twine, cabling, chain and canvas etc)
Supporting loads as needed by shippers in above list not necessarily listed here. (Example -sand for the foundry)

[rtraincollector]

hi I have to offer from RT Railroad the following
From R&R Distilleries we can produce aprox 4 tankers a day of the following

Vodka
Gin
Rum

We need
Orange Juivce
Limes
Lemmons
will let you know about other items needed and for shipping

RT

[Anonymous]

Good exercise for planing he layout.

Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth RR, serving Hamilton, Claremont, Brown and Adams counties in southern Ohio. Connecting to the wold via interchange with the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Cincinnati Union Terminal.

Passenger service including trolley service to Cincinnati's Coney Island Amusement Park and the Camp Allyn and Lake Isabella resorts.

US Mail, Railway Express and team track service.

Generates
Grain including corn, wheat and soybeans.
Burley tobacco, (500,00 pounds annually)
Cattle and hogs.
Eggs & dairy (1 car load every 2 days)
Grapes (5 vineyards August & September)
Limestone quarried to order
Hops for Cincinnati breweries
Produce (Spring Summer & Fall)
Furniture grade Walnut lumber (2 cars per month)
Apples & pears (August - October)
Manufactured goods from
Bethel Shoe Works
Special Pallet Company
Cincinnati Can Corporation
Cincinnati Milling Machine
National Biscuit Company

Receives
Coal
Misc. Chemicals
Petroleum products
Steel
Heavy equipment
Groceries
Building materials
Manufacturing supplies for Tucker River Barge & Tug Works

[twcenterprises]

On the GNE (Gainesville Northeastern) which runs in the North Georgia Mountains, we handle the following commodities:

Inbound:
Passengers (tourists)
Grains (for processing at Nora Mill)
Grains (barley, for beer)
Glass bottles (for wine or beer)
Plastic Pellets (for foam manufacturing)
(a stretch) Steel parts and tires for Kubota
Gasoline and Diesel
Propane

Outbound:
Passengers (tourists)
Coal
Gold (refined ore, ready for manufacturing)
Cotton (baled)
Tobacco
Expanded Foam Products
Lumber
Wood products (plywood, structural beams, etc.)
Pulpwood (logs or woodchips)
Fish (live or refrigerated)
Flour and other milled products
Wine
Beer (microbreweries)
Asbestos (raw material)
Cloth and Textiles
(a stretch) Kubota Tractors and equipment
Gravel, Granite, and cut stone products

Gold shipments are accompanied by armed guard to the point of interchange until picked up by interchange RR crew. Foreign road crews are responsible for their own security needs.

Brad

[Anonymous]

The Iron Belt needs about 30 hoppers of bituminous coal per day, to support coke production. (Sorry Fergie but my iron ore arrives by water so I won't be needing any of your...er...'faded red' MESS ore jennies. [swg])

Allow me another day or two to ask my employees what other commodities are handled by the 'Belt ...after all they are paid to know that stuff, right?

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen

The Iron Belt needs about 30 hoppers of bituminous coal per day, to support coke production. (Sorry Fergie but my iron ore arrives by water so I won't be needing any of your...er...'faded red' MESS ore jennies. [swg])

Allow me another day or two to ask my employees what other commodities are handled by the 'Belt ...after all they are paid to know that stuff, right?

Consider it done! 30 coal loads/day will be shipped starting Monday.

[inch53]

morn to all

The YSL is in east central ILL and could use
anhydrouse ammona spring and fall
fertilizer
sugar beet pulp
dry mollassa
soy bean meal
eletronic parts
gas and diesel fuel
coal 10 cars per week
wood pellets in winter
lumber
we're mostly a conecting line for Pennsy, NYC, and IC, but we ship
pallets
marine chargers
scrap metal 1-2 cars per week
ag lime
crude oil
beef and pork live 1-2 loads per week
livestock feeds 3 cars per day. bagged or bulk
recycled plastic pellets 2 per week

RT ; could use a load of rum, it's eggnog time

think thats it for now any way
mike

[Anonymous]

Good morning.

Gloetown Sugar Refinery has ready-for-market sugar, currently refining 10 tons of sugar beets daily equating to 2 tons of sugar. Production will increase with demand.

We will accept shipments of sugar-beet and lumber. We can also take 1 or 2 cars/mth of good condition used cars. Honest Sam is expecting booming business.

We can use 3 loads of coal/day and 2 takers of oil/day.

Happy MRRing

[inch53]

LUCT ; the YSL could use a covered hopper load of dried beet pulp a week for the feed mill

mike

[Anonymous]

Mike - You got it, 1st load should arrive on Monday.

Happy MRRing

[Fergmiester]

Counter Weight:

Re your: Maritime (For support of shipping -example Rope, twine, cabling, chain and canvas etc)

Have supplier in England, You deal direct with him and we'll ship FOB

(Example -sand for the foundry)

How much do you require?

I can take 10 loads of Scrap iron /week

Brad: would you like to exchange, this way you won't have to return empty loads.

I can supply 2 loads per week of wine and beer and in exchange can take two loads of wine and beer.

Fergie

[Noah Hofrichter]

Glad to see this idea is taking off. Here is what the Appleton, Rivermoor and Keenville has to offer:

Gravel(including railroad ballast and chip rock), up to 100 cars a week, depending on the capacity of the quarry(The ARK is not accustomed to running unit trains around, but if someone wants Gravel, we can do it!)
Finished milled lumber, about 5-10 cars a week out

The ARK also needs:
Plastic Pellets, about 4 cars a week
Reams of paper, about 10 cars a week
Pulpwood, about 3 cars a week
Coal, about 5 cars a week
Oil, about 2 cars a week in Tank cars.

Fergie, I'd like to renew the contract the ARK has with you for three cars of Coal a Week for another year. Does that sound good to you? Also, can we add on a new contract of 2 pulpwood cars a week? The Lumber mill in town gets most of their pulpwood by truck, but they have been looking into getting wood by rail to save some money.

Let me know if any of you need or have anything for me!

Noah

[twcenterprises]

Well, seeing as how the local market generates their own wine, I'll just take the 2 carloads of beer, some of the locals like that "imported" stuff. I can use those carloads of plastic for the foam shop if it's polystyrene. Better load the cars short, the covered bridge can't handle fully loaded 100 ton cars, it's only good for about 75 ton cars. I'm surprised nobody wants that gold! Must be too high a security risk! We're willing to lease out our armored Pullman should the need arise.

Noah, the coal and logs are on the way. Should be there sometime next week, they're on the interchange track now awaiting pickup.

Used cars? How about some restorable antiques? We got everything from Model T's to '70's musclecars. Some even run!

We generally get our empties from our interchange with the Southern Railway in Gainesville, some are foreign road cars for homeward lading, others are returning home road cars. Needless to say, anytime the chance comes up, we will reload foreign road empties with outbound loads.

Brad

[Anonymous]

Fergie,

Foundry sand 3 car loads/week
I also can use that Maple syrup when ready by LCL
I'll make 6 boxcars availible for the Maritime cargo per week, They probably will be full of Rum and spirits unless you can think of other cargo inbound to you.

I can give you 4 loads scrap a week, and bridge more from other railroads in this thread.

How many sleepers do you require?

Also, are you willing to accept bridge traffic other wise listed in this post? At this point:

2 carloads Scrap from Inch53

and Masonjar's Europe traffic not yet specified how many etc...

spirits and rum is availible.

Luct,

2 carloads of lumber
4 carloads of coal

Inch53,

Electronics parts 2 carload in exchange for reloading your marine chargers.
2 carloads of lumber
2 boxcars of bottled rum
2 carloads of coal

I will accept 2 carloads of scrap metal for bridge to Fergie
We will reload those lumber boxcars with pallets
ag lime one CV hopper a week is useful

Twocenterprises,

We can run sleepers south to you by pullman contract how many do you need?
The distillery can give you empty glass bottles, 2 carloads a week.

We would like to use your coal to assist in filling orders listed elsewhere here.
Cotton will be useful for mills

Regarding your gold, we can turn this into a exercise for the military in a special train but dont have anything armored at the moment. Im thinking of burying that armored pullman of yours in a troop train should you be able to supply the GI's


Bukwrm,

Express and LCL is availible (1 express, 2 LCL twice a week)
We would like to take shoes, pallets, cans and biscuts.

We can send

Coal
Chemical via bridge
Steel coil (1-2 per week)
Excess shipping inventory can be sent to you for your Tug works I think 1 car a

week for now

rttraincollector,

We can bridge vodka by shipping and provide gin.

Masonjar,

How many sleepers do you need?
We will take grain at 4 loads a week
We can bridge your Europe traffic if needed.

Coal at 2 carloads a week
Ice at one load per week

Noah Hofrichter,

I would like to take your gravel at 2 carloads a week

I can provide 3 carloads of coal
2 boxcars of paper from excess inbound newsprint

[Anonymous]

CW - Thanks a bunch, looking forward to the shipments.

Happy MRRing

[Paul W. Beverung]

Ken: We can supply iron ore in several types and grades. The DS&SE can also custom mix on the dock for your particular needs.

Noah: Not to cut into Fergies business, MUCH, but the DS&SE can ship coal at a considerable savings from our dock, since it moves most of the way by lake carrier.

Fergie: You can ship that coal by cannaler to our dock and trans ship by rail. We'll work something out.

Our dock can also handle package frieght and and bulk cargo. There is lifting capicity to 50 tons for machinary. Connections are made with railroads in Duluth- Superior, Marquete Mich. and several other places south.

Give the Duluth Superior & Southeastern for all your shipping needs.

[inch53]

howdy all
I just decided some thing.

I need to make me a score card on who gets what and who's shipping what

back in laters
mike

[Anonymous]

The score card?

I just have a notepad on the hard disk related to my railroad. Once a industry is satisfied inbound and out.. I mark it off on the print out.

The really hairy part is dealing with all the virtual trains, for example my coal turn is already at capacity with all the loads going off line and will need to run a second turn during the week to handle domestic needs.

Worst case scenario I either get it off a different railroad and bridge it or some other line will get the coal business. =)

[GDRMCo]

Hey guys. I might post what the GDRCo exports and recieves.

Exports:
Iron Ore
Zinc Ore
Lead Ore
Gold Ore
Automobiles
Containers
RoadRailers

Imports:
Finished Metal Products
Containers
RoadRailers

Have a great day!!!
Mitchell

[inch53]

back, i thnk maybe, i'm ok?????

Luct ; looking for the pulp next week. Could you market some bulk feed for the return

COUNTER WEIGHT ; the chargers should ship out Thurday on the return.
Don't need any more rum for any body for a day or two, got enough now the whole county will be falling down
I can load out the pallets back to you.
The car load of ag lime per weeks no problem.
I'm sending the 2 loads of scrap metal

Hope i've got this straight , need to set down n figure. Back laters all
mike

[Anonymous]

GDRMCo

We can use your autos.

I probably can send you finished metal products.

Inch53,

Will do! Do you require anything going back to you in that

Covered Hopper after the lime is unloaded?

How about merchandise or something else in the boxcars

besides Rum?

Fergie,

Make that 6 carloads of scrap heading your way thanks to

Inch53's 2 car contribution.

So far so good.

[inch53]

COUNTER WIEGHT
could use some shelled corn or bean meal back. If you have any, if no hold it for a couple days if you can, may have you route it back another way
how bout a mixed load of liquors and a load of brick

ALSO I have a car load each of cat and dog food if some-one could use it

mike

[Anonymous]

The Golden State railraod is accepting the coal from MESS 20 car loads for Bailey Steel. Lobster for San Francisco restraunts 2o loads a week.
We are shipping Grapes 20 loads
Wine bottles 10,000 cases
Corks 50 cases
Holiday Makers/tourists 100 /day
Fresh Produce 15 loads/week Fall/ Winter/Spring from the San Jaquin, Scramento and Salinas vallies.
Stel products from Bailey Steel, Chocolate from Hershey Foods. All forms of granulated sugar and maollasass. Leather, Clothing, Paint, Petrochemicals, Soap (poiwdered and liquid).

[Anonymous]

sierrarr,

I will like 8 loads of your produce per week. I can ship Atlantic

Seafood to you in the reefers if you like or route them west to another railroad that has lobsters to load. Either empty or as ice loads.

One boxcar of paint and clothing each, I will have to find something to ship back to you in these two boxcars.

I can use some of your petrochemicals, I have 5 8,000 gallon tank cars for them just need to find loads going west.

Inch53,

I can break corn to ship when in season since we have not figured out season I will say one round trip of that lime hopper

will result in a hold over or routing to another railroad of your choice. But do it fast, per deim charges pile up LOL.

[Anonymous]

Fergie - sounds like a plan, I'm ready for those coal loads!

Paul - if you want to send a laker full of ore in my direction, I'm still stockpiling for winter. Or have all your vessels been laid-up for the season?

Bukwm - My steel mill can use some of your limestone, 20 carloads/day to be exact

CW - do you ship refractory-grade brick? I need at least 1 boxcar-load/week to reline my ladles...

Inch - since CW has already claimed your weekly scrap metal supply, guess I'll have to keep searching for that commodity

. . .
Here's what the Iron Belt exports [so far]:

Steel coils - 20 cars/day
Crushed slag (for ballast, road paving etc.) - 15 hoppers/day
Tar - 2 tanks/week
Benzol - 1 tank/week

Toodles!

[inch53]

KEN ; CW is bridging the scrap to FERGIE, i think. The boys are trying for some clean oil field scrap, pipes, pump jacks and tanks. If they get them, you can have them. Maybe 2 loads a week it looks like for bout 3 months. also working on a deal for crushed cars, can you use that

CW ; Corn should be in season, it is here. So go ahead

first thing tomorrow, i'm making a list of who has what and who needs what. Need a better score card

mike

[Anonymous]

The CG&P did not survive the Great Depression by being shy about new business practices. Even thought our tracks don't serve some of Cincinnati's larger companies we contacted them about there shipping needs and now the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railroad Logistics division is assisting several Cincinnati companies in locating product.

Fergmiester
Kroger would like 2 cars of your great Nova Scotia sea food delivered to their distribution center every Thursday.
Christian Morline Brewing would like 10,000 gallons of maple syrup for a specialty brew. If it sells well it could become and annual event.
Castallini Produce feels confident that they can supply 3 express reefers of mixed produce each week. More should be available as they build there supplies.

Counter Weight
Castallini Produce would be interested in a carload of Celery every week if it is available.
Kroger would like one car of frozen seafood for Monday deliveries.
Kahn's Meats can supply you with 6 car loads of pork / beef each week.
Cincinnati Milling Machine will be happy to supply any production machinery you might need.
Shoes, pallets, cans and biscuits are in route.

rtraincollector
Could you use some wheat for your vodka plant?

Brad
If your brewery uses any metal cans Cincinnati Can Corporation would be happy to supply them.
Kroger would like 1 car per week of your wine and microbrews. We love the local products but like to try foreign drinks too.

inch53
Kahn's Meats would like your car loads of beef / pork on the hoof each week.

luct
Kroger would like 2 car loads of suger in 5 and 10 pound bags.
National Biscuit Company would like 3 car loads per week in bulk. This order could increase.

Noah
The Cincinnati Post receives 2 car loads of newsprint a week. Can we get a good price?

sierrarr
Castallini Produce can take 6 car loads of produce per week shipped express reefer.
National Biscuit Company would like 2 tankers of molasses a week and 5 loads of bakers chocolate.

KenLarson
My little quarry will have to ramp up production some to make that order but is is doable and we are in the process of making it so. ( I have been working on a final plan for my "Dream Layout" and this quarry which really existed at the time my railroad did is on the layout but I never really knew what they would ship except cut stone for construction. You just gave me a reason to run a 20 car unit train every day. You would need it pulverized in covered hoppers?)

[sunsetbeachry]

......................FERGIE...................

..........We rebuit 11 bridges between beach and Portland on the old S P & S. Using our Shays it is a one day journey to Pltd..From there we need to connect to a bridge RR for all shipments out

.....................................Outgoing...........................

....................Dungeness Crab in season 12/15 to 4/15 yearly
....................Lumber Raw any length
..........................Doug Fir [ year round ]
..........................Red Cedar [ year round ]
..........................White Cedar [ when found ]
..........................Vine Maple [ clear for furniture only ]
...................Seaweed for fertilizer
...................Chips for Electronics [ armed guards needed ]
...................Fish ; Bottom [ year round ] Mech. reffers

...............................Incoming.................
.................Hulls for fishing boats [ steel and/or glass]
.................Equipment for the fishing trade
.......................Cable; steel also for logging trade [ 3 inch to 1/2 inch steel]
................................................cordage [ 12 inch to 1/16 ] [ steel ; cord ; polyester ]
...............Electronics " BOSE " for all [ We love R & R ]
...............Steel Coils [22 ; 18 ; 14 ; 10 ; 8 ; 6; 4 ] gauge
...............Gold and Silver
...............Medical supplies for transshipment to Asia
...............English speaking tourists [ will not be returned ] LOL
...............Indoor plmb supplies [ so that we can tear down outhouses and
build pallets to ship things out ]

......................Need routing lists to ship and receive so we can clean up backyard

...............Sunset Beach Ry...........................Chuck and Kathy..................................