Hey Jim --
It sounds like you are INTIMATELY acquainted with beer yourself...
Have fun!
Bill Winans
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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