Ken: The Humongous Company ships corn starch all over the country in boxcars, its own and other roads. SHABBONA home road boxcars used in this service are generally the 1600-Class PS-1 cars from American Models. Since SHABBONA ostensibly extends to Minneapolis, this would be a natural fit.
Shipping bulk corn syrup in tank cars is now a budding business, you could also receive tank car loads of that commodity as well. In return, Humongous could use Korn shipped in boxcars from elevators in Minnesota (just don't use 1600-Class SHABBONA boxcars for grain service - they are designated for clean foodstuff commodities ONLY!) If you're going to be in Columbus next weekend, we can talk more, there. I smell a car swap program here. Bob Nicholson _________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "mhrywest" <mhry19@...> wrote: > > 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 > ------------------------------------ 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/
