Planning a Short Line PT.3 Choosing Industries.
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You can make your industries more flexible by making the names non-specific. "Smith and Sons" will accept a bigger variety of cars (in different operating sessions, maybe) than "Doofenschmirtz's 2-56 Nuts and Bolts".
Having extremely specialized cars can spur you to building rare industries that won't generate much traffic -- I know someone who built a pickle plant so he could run his pickle car. Something like that (did anyone have more than one?) is better off in a run-through freight, or running between fiddle yard and car ferry.
If you have a lot of oddball cars, you could designate a railway car builder or rebuilder. A source for all those pristine models.
David
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