01-30-2012, 11:06 AM
Justin;
For Blommer Chocolates, you'll want to take some time looking at the facility in Union City, CA in both Bing http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=q7zj0k4...orm=LMLTCC and Google http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s...4&t=k&z=19 to get a feel for that industry.
You'll note that the rail siding is a bit further from the structure than what you'd typically find and that you'll need some room to move the covered hoppers of cocoa beans as they are unloaded. You'll also note by rotating the views, that at times they may have only covered hoppers of cocoa beans on spot or a mixture of cocoa bean covered hoppers, tank cars and Airslide covered hoppers. Since your track length indicates a capacity of 4 cars, you'd probably never want more then two or three on spot at any one time. One time you might have only the cocoa bean covered hoppers spotted - another time you might have a tank car and an Airslide. In other words, your car spots would be scaled down some from the prototype, but you can certainly duplicate the prototype mixture of cars that are spotted at various times.
The main thing is that with the rail siding further away from the structure, it makes it easier to couple/uncouple the cars that are spotted. When I had this facility set up on my ISL, I had no problem at all with spotting/coupling/uncoupling cars behind the structure mockup. May still include this as one of the main industries on my own layout.
For Blommer Chocolates, you'll want to take some time looking at the facility in Union City, CA in both Bing http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=q7zj0k4...orm=LMLTCC and Google http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s...4&t=k&z=19 to get a feel for that industry.
You'll note that the rail siding is a bit further from the structure than what you'd typically find and that you'll need some room to move the covered hoppers of cocoa beans as they are unloaded. You'll also note by rotating the views, that at times they may have only covered hoppers of cocoa beans on spot or a mixture of cocoa bean covered hoppers, tank cars and Airslide covered hoppers. Since your track length indicates a capacity of 4 cars, you'd probably never want more then two or three on spot at any one time. One time you might have only the cocoa bean covered hoppers spotted - another time you might have a tank car and an Airslide. In other words, your car spots would be scaled down some from the prototype, but you can certainly duplicate the prototype mixture of cars that are spotted at various times.
The main thing is that with the rail siding further away from the structure, it makes it easier to couple/uncouple the cars that are spotted. When I had this facility set up on my ISL, I had no problem at all with spotting/coupling/uncoupling cars behind the structure mockup. May still include this as one of the main industries on my own layout.
Ed
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