Industries served by rail...
I'm continuing to evolve my track plan and will post the whole thing in the next couple of days. It will have to be a PDF to keep the granularity and be able to zoom in on the details.
Here is my latest question. I have the list of industries that were server by rail for all three towns that I am modeling. I am hoping that a few of you can help me slim them down to actually fit the available space that I have available. I am planning 11' for Hartland, 19' for Oconomowoc, and 22' for Watertown. Watertown will be the least prototypical because I want to include yard and engine facilities there.
Here are the facilities that are served on the rails for the towns:
Hartland
- Passenger Depot
- Hartland Lbr & Fuel Co. - Coal Dealers/Feed Mill Flour & Grist Mills, Feed Mills/Grain & Feed Dealer
- Hartland Washed Sand & Gravel Co. - Sand/Gravel
- Standard Oil Co. c/l receiver - Oil - Refineries & Petroleum Products
Oconomowoc
- Passenger Depot
- Oconomowoc Canning Co. - peas
- Oconomowoc Lumber & Fuel Co. - Coal Dealers
- Walther Bros. - Coal Dealers/Grain & Feed Dealers
- Brittingham & Hixon Lumber Co. - Coal Dealers
- H. L. Kellogg & Son - Coal Dealers
- R. H. Bliss - Feed Mill Flour & Grist Mills, Feed Mills/Grain & Feed Dealer
- Standard Oil Co. c/l receiver - Oil - Refineries & Petroleum Products
- Wadhams Oil Co., do - Oil - Refineries & Petroleum Products
- Sinclair Refining Co, do - Oil - Refineries & Petroleum Products
- Hartford Oil Co, do - Oil - Refineries & Petroleum Products
Watertown
- Passenger Depot
- The Village Blacksmith Folks - Agricultural Implements
- Badger State Bottling Works - Bottling Works & Mineral Water Shippers
- Van Camp Milk Co - Canning Factories (milk)
- Dairy Distributing Assn - Canning Factories (milk)
- Gateway Lumber Co - Coal Dealer
- O. E. Carlson Coal Co - Coal Dealer
- West Side Lumber Co - Coal Dealer
- Sazama Fuel Co - Coal Dealer
- Hutson Braun Lumber Co - Coal Dealer
- Watertown Co-op - Coal Dealer
- William Gorder Co - Coal Dealer
- Lake View Dairy Co - Creamery
- Globe Milling Co - Fertilizer/Flour & Grist Mills/Feed Mills/Dealer
- Jaeger Milling Co - Fertilizer/Flour & Grist Mills/Feed Mills/Dealer/Lumber
- West Side Lumber Co - Fertilizer
- Watertown Co-op - Fertilizer
- American Castings Service - Foundry
- Otto Biefeld Co - Iron & Steel Plants (structural Iron)
- Deep Rock Oil Co - Oil
- Cities Service Oil Co - Oil
- Sinclair Refining Co - Oil
- Valvoline Oil Co - Oil
- Wadhams Division - Oil
- Socony Vacuum Oil Co - Oil
- Pure Oil Co - Oil
- Mid-States Shoe Co - Show Manufacturer
- Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co - Tobacco Warehouses
Thanks for looking!!
Ryan
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For What It Is Worth...
Sure is a quite a list to pick from. Not being familiar with the turf I might use these criteria to thin the herd:
1. Unique or interesting structures
2. Anchor industries
3. Prototypes that have interesting spur/switching arrangements
4. Include the non-coal, non-oil industries for variety since coal and oil dominate
5. Any specific company(s) that has a particular meaning or memory with you
6. Availability of look alike structure kits/components if not scratch building
7. Personal taste - one focal point industry with remainder in a supporting role (i.e. big refinery complex at center stage)
Alan
www.LKOrailroad.com
What scale?
I may have missed an earlier post but what scale are you modeling? Your Waterton location is 22 feet but how deep?
There are 28 locations listed for Waterton alone. Many of those industries would require a lot of space but there are only 5 or 6 industries. Pick one company for each industry. With this approach each could be a modest but believable size allowing for a multiple tracks and a number of cars for operations.
Bob
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Scale is HO
Bob,
Sorry... The scale is HO, and the width of Watertown is 36", but I'm trying to keep the track as close to 24" deep as possible. I also have a A/D track and three single-ended yard tracks here. Will also put in an engine house and possibly a small turntable. My thought process is that the traffic from my staging yards would stop at Watertown and drop the cars for the other two cities. Then a local would run the freight down to the cities and take care of spotting everything.
LKandO, thanks for the good criteria for choosing the industries!
Ryan
some other considerations
Focus on those industries immediately adjacent to the main track (you have only a couple of hundred scale feet of depth to work with). More distant industries can (but need not) be suggested/simulated by staging track(s) and/or backdrops.
Reduce duplicate industries. For example, if there are six coal dealers in one town, winnow it down to two being modeled.
Mark Pierce
Are all of those individually
Are all of those individually served with their own tracks or do many of them use a common facility or the team track?
Chances are a bunch of them are all the same or served by the team track.
Otherwise I agree with one previous poster. There are a lot of oil and coal dealers listed in the one town. If they are actually all separate, and not just served on the team track, instead of 6 or 8 of each, get rid of half or more of them and just include two or three in appropriate spots to get the proper overall feel.
Chris van der Heide
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