Depending on your era, don't discount the team track. SP used to have team tracks all over the place here in San Antonio, for example. Businesses without sidings would have cars spotted at a nearby team track, and the lumber or whatever would be hauled away by truck. Even in more recent times, UP had a bakery customer that receive covered hoppers of flour at a team track, and the flour would be unloaded and trucked to the bakery itself.
Charles --- On Sun, 8/28/11, ctxmf74 <[email protected]> wrote: From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} RE: Structure Kits To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011, 1:49 PM --- In [email protected], "Michael Eldridge" <meldridge@...> wrote: > > My preference is for industries that turn lumber and pulp into finished > product. Often it is better to model one end of the process. A saw mill is huge but a local lumberyard that receives the load can be modeled very easily. They still receive a few cars per month here at a spur with a small paved lot. Modeling it gives a reason to run centerbeams, bulkhead flats, and lumber boxcars while taking up very little space. Same theory for cement. A cement plant is larger than most layout rooms but a redi-mix dealer can just be a spur with unloading track, a storage silo, and a few piles of aggregate and mixing machinery. Add an office and a truck washout pit and it's a complete scene. A beer distributor's warehouse is a lot smaller than a brewery for those insulated boxcars too :>) ..Regards, DaveBranum [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/
