06-05-2015, 03:41 AM
railohio Wrote:Catt Wrote:Catt equipment
Wait, what?
Lol, good one Catt and I be you just love to hear those diesel engines purr.
Oh and an excellent idea for an easy to model trackside industry. Just the place for all those model pieces of construction equipment that we just cant help but buy.
Actually you could develop the concept further. If you take the plastic pellet industry idea of using covered hoppers to store pellets awaiting delivery, and swap the hoppers for flat cars and build a series of sidings full of flat cars loaded with equipment and say that it is an SITE yard. Storage In Transit, Equipment. Its plausable if you have only some equipment stored in SITE tracks and the remainder off loaded and stored on the ground. You could even have a mobile and tower crane storage yard next door with repair/overhaul facilities for a national crane company to store its surge fleet between major jobs.
Mark
Fake It till you Make It, then Fake It some More