09-24-2015, 04:38 AM
Welcome CSX-UK to Big Blue.
Good to see your kicking off your time here with a topic of your own.
Whatever your thoughts about the use of corn sryup in foods and drinks and the possible personal and public health implications, the fact is for modern era modellers, such corn sryup facilities be they transloaders or end user factories, give us intensive track utilization and switching opportunties on a par with classic era loose car railroading.
Thank you bdw9535, I knew I had read an article on corn sryup lodaing facilities and the MRP article was a good one. I think from memory that the facility was a transload only with trucks being used to deliver the product to final users, thats what made it such a modeller friendly, small foot print to high [and very specific] switching requirement layout option.
Lance M. also did a recent shelf layout track plan in MR that included a factory with corn sryup transloading requirements.
I also recall watching a You Tube How Its Made video on the Coca Cola bottling plant in Louisianna, [I think] and they had their corn syrup tank cars inside a purpose built unloading building as part of the bottling plant. It was only a brief screen shot but having read the MRP article numerous times, I knew what I was looking at.
If I get the chance I will see if I can find the clip and post the details.
Mark
Good to see your kicking off your time here with a topic of your own.
Whatever your thoughts about the use of corn sryup in foods and drinks and the possible personal and public health implications, the fact is for modern era modellers, such corn sryup facilities be they transloaders or end user factories, give us intensive track utilization and switching opportunties on a par with classic era loose car railroading.
Thank you bdw9535, I knew I had read an article on corn sryup lodaing facilities and the MRP article was a good one. I think from memory that the facility was a transload only with trucks being used to deliver the product to final users, thats what made it such a modeller friendly, small foot print to high [and very specific] switching requirement layout option.
Lance M. also did a recent shelf layout track plan in MR that included a factory with corn sryup transloading requirements.
I also recall watching a You Tube How Its Made video on the Coca Cola bottling plant in Louisianna, [I think] and they had their corn syrup tank cars inside a purpose built unloading building as part of the bottling plant. It was only a brief screen shot but having read the MRP article numerous times, I knew what I was looking at.
If I get the chance I will see if I can find the clip and post the details.
Mark
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