Comments on: Ideas For Industries On RR Layout

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:32:09 +0000

A nice industy to model is a ready mix plant. Covered 70 ton hoppers bring in portland cement and open hoppers bring in the aggragate. I have even seen boxcars delivering supplies to plants like this.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:40:11 +0000

With an interchange and a team track you can have just about any type of rolling stock you can imagine.

By: Geof

Geof — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:43:48 +0000

Ed,

You can model just about any industry you care to. They don't always have to be related though it's a nice touch.

However, having said that, you might want to have a iron foundry to make the metal castings for the generator parts and you can even have a iron mine to supply the iron! The foundry will need coal to process the steel.
You'll need a wire factory to manufacture wire for the generator plant, a plastic company to make the wire insulation for the wire factory, a chemical processing plant to make the basic plastic for the wire insulation, etc. As you can see, one industry feeds (or creates) another.

Hope this helps,

Geof

By: FIre Ken

FIre Ken — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:46:33 +0000

You don’t say what era you’re modeling, but if it’s transition era, you could add local coal distributors in small towns along the mainline. Kalmbach pubishing has three books about on-line industries.