Nice job Barry

Nice job Barry on the Kitty Litter plant! The research and looking at kits available produced a fine looking plant and one that looks unique. I like creative modeling that creates unique buildings and industry, too many layout use existing kits as is making their layouts look like the Walthers catalog. 

Great Job Barry!!!

Mike Deverell  

I have a cat and never thought about ...

...the fact that cat litter has to be manufactured somewhere! A neat industry that can supply a moderate amount af action with several types of cars. Thank you for a great idea which I will borrow.

Origins

I heard a spot on NPR about the man who came up with kitty litter.  He ran a quarry, and  as the product he was after was mined was left with piles of bentonite that no one could think of a use for.  He took a few buckets of the stuff home to experiment with in his spare time.  One freezing cold day he happened to look out the window and saw his neighbor lady trying to dig up some fresh earth for a box she had in the house for her cat to use.  When he found out what she was trying to do he invited her in to his garage and gave her some of the bentonite.  Next day a couple more neighbor ladies were at the door asking if they could have some for their cats.  The light came on and he finally had a product to use the material for.  Convincing merchants to devote valuable display space to a new product with no prior reputation of marketability was a bigger problem though.

Awesome!!!!

Excellent article!  Great to see writing on modern subjects.  Love the fact that scenes were made using readily available kits and simple kitbashing.  Not everyone, notably me, is great at scratch building, as is so often used.  Great job and hope to see the layout in Milwaukee this year.