Industry car use

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Hello All,
I am starting my first layout and looking for information on the kinds of rolling stock different industries use. I have several spurs on which to place cars. Some will have 2 or 3 industries on the same spur, others have 2 or 3 spurs for one industry. The purpose of this exercise is to not have 199 box cars and 1 tank car.
Thank you in advance and happy rails.


Craig:D
 
Hi Josh,
I haven`t picked any industries as of yet. I want to make sure there is a good cross section of cars on the layout. I am thinking of having industries that use several types of cars instead of the same old box car every time. Maybe something that receives a box on Monday and then a tank car on Wednesday, followed by a flat car on Friday.
Layout has 12 locations for industries.
Some locations have 2 or 3 spots for cars.

I have to believe there is info out there somewhere to tell me such things as.
Paper mill -Flats for wood in
-tanks for chemicals
-boxcar for finished paper
I am guesing at this point.
Thanks for the reply,
Craig
 


Paper mills would receive both pulpwood, and wood chips, plus chemicals for bleaching, ect. They would shipped finished paper in Boxcars.

Grain processing could receive grain by rail.

Cement plants, receive gravel by rail, and coal for the power plant (maybe), ship powdered cement via 2 bay covered hopper.

Metal processing (smelters), receive: scrap, ore, coal; ship: slab, coil...

Scrap metal loaders can load gondola's, with loose scrap, bails, coiled wire, ect.
 
There's a web site that was posted here that has a great list of what hundreds of different industries receive and ship out. Unfortunatly, I didn't bookmark it. Maybe a search here will find it or someone more efficient than me will post the link.. :)
 
Flipping through the 2008 Model Railroader Latout Guide last night and I noticed a couple of layouts that listed the industry and each of the cars that would be inviolved with each aspect. Not sure if that info would be on their website too but, the diagrams in the magazine look pretty helpful to get the industries situated on your layout correctly too.
 
You can check out the Operation Special Interest Group's Industry database. It doesn't say what kind of car is used, but does indicate what commodities are shipped/received by rail for thousands of industries and what era they are suited to.

http://www.opsig.org/industrydb/
 
A paper mill has the greatest variety of cars as follows:
Boxcars- old paper in and new out,
Covered hoppers- chemical in,
Tank cars- slurry, bleach, chemicals in and old chemicals out,
Bulkhead flats and regular flats- pulp wood, machinery, etc.,
Woodchip gondolas- woodchips and used paper in
Open hoppers- coal in.
I may have forgotten something...
Second to this is a Sugar beet plant, with almost the same variety but different loads.
You could do a layout on just one industry!
 
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