So what you're telling us, Ed, is we should design layouts that bring us beer.
OK folks, first prize to the best plan!!
regards ... pqr
Let's see, a layout with beer... Well, first you need a brewery, and to bring
malt to that brewery you'll need either covered hopper grain cars or ubiquitous
40' box cars (depends on the era). Better add some additional ones to bring
the adjuncts; corn, rice, etc. or you can bring in insulated tank cars with
liquid dextrose for the adjunct. Also better add a few coal hoppers to the
boiler room for steam and an insulated hi-pressure tank with CO2 - bubbles,
gotta have bubbles! Maybe even a flat car with a few idlers and a big new tank
strapped on...
On the finished side you'll need box cars carrying in glass and empty cans and
some insulated box cars for product out - one of my former employers had
capacity to load 50 - 53' box cars indoors (!) with finished product. A nice
finishing touch is an old beat up gon collecting all the broken trash glass
from the bottling hall to return to the glass plant. Speaking of that, on the
other end of the layout, why not a glass plant, sand coming in covered hoppers,
box cars of bottles out, headed for the brewery. Some hi pressure insulated
tank cars carrying LPG to fire the annealing ovens would be a nice touch.
In another corner you could have a malting plant/ grain silo complex. Grain
cars in and malt cars out, again headed for your brewery. If you want to ad
some TOFC service, transport your finished beer to another siding for a
distribution warehouse. The product comes in by rail and goes out in trucks,
either over the road or on TOFC. I think that might provide for a bit of
operation... of course if you have more room, you can always add an area where
sand is being quarried and loaded into those cars for the glass plant... and
you all thought I bought all those old Heljan Brewery kits to make warehouse
flats!!
Kind da makes me want to zip open a cold one and watch the operating fun making
liquid bread...
Enjoy responsibly...
Jim K.
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