On my layout I have several industrials, as I have a farm area, the baseball field, two road of retail and then industry
I have the J Lechner Food Co, made from a G C Laser kit, which is a loading dock. Then the American Flag Co, by BTS and a corrugated box co by Lehigh Valley, along with several AF accessories, as I know they are not scale, but I doctored up the barrel loader, put brick paper on the building, painted the base concrete. Saw mill with Fire tower tank from BTS. Mike From: mhrywest Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Interchange? Ah, you got me on this one. I like the idea of knowing about industries on other people's layouts with the idea that I can "send" cars to interchange points on my layout with the thought they are traveling somewhere, visiting someone else's layout. Hard core operators are not interested in that much story which is fine but that type of story is enjoyable to me. Some commodities are more regional but even if the first commodity was regional, the cars, particularly boxcars routed all around the country. I recall an article that tracked a boxcar's trip crossing the country over and over again. There was also an article in the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association magazine about a boxcar shortage that was caused because the NP sent cars east loaded and the railroads would not send them back. It was during the decline of the eastern roads prior to consolidation and so much of their fleet was deadlined. In addition to buying rebuilt boxcars such as the 37 AAR cars (Pacific Rail), the NP bought a number of the Pennsy round roof style cars that originally were on the DT&I and other eastern roads. Well anyway, with that in mind, I will be building a list of places to interchange with. Why, my railroad even has a Spiral Hill hopper on it that is in good enough shape to be used to haul sugar beets now that it is harvest time. Can't say for sure how a two bay hopper got off line and to Minnesota but it is not likely to get back east for interchange until after harvest. Sorry for the interruption, you can get back to whatever you were really talking about. Ken [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
