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but i'm looking for one big industry

Sorry Ray;
I misunderstood or overlooked a word some where. I thought you were looking for assorted industries that would support the car types you mentioned. One large industry that would support all those car types is going to be a tough to find.

the tank cars are from Athearn,thought they where for carrying chemicals?????
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That tank car is indeed an older style designed for transporting various light weight chemicals.

An ethanol plant could support the grain type covered hoppers and the tank cars, but no box cars would come into play, nor would the smaller two bay covered hoppers.

Best I can come up with at the moment, based on your track plan, would be to treat the left side of the plan as a small ethanol plant. Use the upper left hand track strictly for tank car loading and lower left spur for grain unloading. Center track for switching the cars out. The right hand side of the plant would have another fair sized industry or two - locations E and F.

There is a small ethanol plant that I've visited in Mexico, MO, Mid-America Biofuels that resembles a mirror image of your track plan. You can view it here: http://maps.google.com/?ll=39.168783,-91...5&t=k&z=17 Note the large grain elevator opposite the plant and across the NS and KCS main tracks. Google maps labels still show the ethanol plant as being the ADM soybean meal plant, but it's no longer that industry. Note all the tank cars and covered hoppers at the plant.

If you follow the NS/KCS mains westward, you'll see a spur branching off toward the southwest, which is the Ozark Valley Railroad short line and there are a few industries located on that line that might be inspiration for what the industry on the right side of your plant could represent.

Just some more thoughts. Maybe I'll find something else.