I think Andy will agree with me,
A cooler under the benchwork will do the job....
Simon
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From: Jim Kindraka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2007 11:34 pm
Subject: {S-Scale List} Roll out the barrel...
To: S Scale Egroup <[email protected]>
> 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
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> 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...
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> 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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