04-16-2012, 09:40 AM
If you want corn syrup tank cars on your layout, there are other alternatives. One is simply an unloading facility -- if HFCS is made out in the boonies, it does have to be shipped to metropolitan areas. You can see corn syrup tank cars in many manifest freights, and it's then routed to transloads where it's pumped into tank trucks for delivery to bakeries and so forth. Here is one that was located on the site of the old SP freight house at River Station Yard in Los Angeles:
This is long gone -- the transfer is now (or was, haven't checked lately) out of town at Aurant Yard. The actual building is pretty small, as you can see, and much better suited to an ISL.
This is long gone -- the transfer is now (or was, haven't checked lately) out of town at Aurant Yard. The actual building is pretty small, as you can see, and much better suited to an ISL.