08-31-2011, 07:58 PM
Well from my personal railroad experience and having worked such industries, I'd vote for a bourbon whiskey distillery for a single industry that could support a short line. Simply scale down one of the facilities that I'm familiar with and traffic would consist of:
Inbound:
Hoppers of coal for the power house
Covered hopper(s) of corn, rye and malt
Box car of new charred oak barrels
(Optional) tank cars of grain alcohol
Outbound:
Covered hopper or box car of distillers dried grain (feed)
Box car of used barrels
Box cars of case whiskey
Most of the distilleries around here varied in size from ones that received one or two cars a day to monsters that handled 15 or 20 cars per day when the distillery was in production (twice a year)
Inbound:
Hoppers of coal for the power house
Covered hopper(s) of corn, rye and malt
Box car of new charred oak barrels
(Optional) tank cars of grain alcohol
Outbound:
Covered hopper or box car of distillers dried grain (feed)
Box car of used barrels
Box cars of case whiskey
Most of the distilleries around here varied in size from ones that received one or two cars a day to monsters that handled 15 or 20 cars per day when the distillery was in production (twice a year)
Ed
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