Wood Chips

[KlickyMobster]

Hi,

Over the last three weeks, I've been stuggling to find an industry to put on a four foot long industrial siding.  It would have to be a low relief structure or a very small industry.  Here's what I am thinking:

 I will have a woodchip car loader in the middle of the siding.  It will run from a low relief warehouse (kitbashed from a pikestuff kit).  Is this the right kind of structure? 

Any suggestions will be appreciated, along with some photos, too!

[tomikawaTT]

The trick here is signage.  Your 'manufacturing industry in a Pikestuff warehouse' would have to be something that converts raw wood to more valuable commodities like fine furniture or top-quality cabinetwork for upscale kitchens.  (The usual cabinet works would import chips - in the form of chipboard.)  Add a big sign that includes the name of the product as well as the company.

Somewhere in my collection of junk reference materials I have a photo of a N&W Y switching the Bassett Furniture Company.  IIRC, there was a chiploader toward the far end of the siding.

Or, if you have a taste for the really unusual, Sam Colt Stocks - The Stock in Lock, Stock and Barrel.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964) 

[KlickyMobster]

So chip loaders are generally within a few miles of their destination?  If so, their destination would probably end up as off layout.  Also, what kind of industries would these destinations be?

[twcenterprises]

Not necessarily.  Wood chips can travel hundreds of miles if necessary.  I've seen woodchip loaders out in the sticks (literally).  Woodchips can either go to a paper/pulp mill, a presswood/particle board plant, or use for fuel at some plant that still has a wood fired boiler.  Wood chips can be (and often are) created at lumber mills, where the outer portions of the log are basically "scrap", or at local "recycling" facilities, where homeowners drop off their yard waste for chipping.  A tree removal service could also be a source for wood chips.  As stated, furniture and other woodworking factories would also generated woodchips and sawdust.  They would also make good candidates for other inbound and outbound rail shipments.

Brad

[ericsp]

In Shafter, CA Scott's Lawn Care and Sierra Organics both receive ground cover in woodchip gondolas. BN, UP, and Lane Forest Products gondolas are all commonly seen there.

Scotts Mulches and Ground Covers

Lane Forest Products