01-25-2010, 10:16 AM
faraway Wrote:steinjr Wrote:...a distributor of paper products...That's good news. That kind and similar industry are a good reason for all kind of generic boxcars (and the special paper boxcars). I was astound to find such a dense area still existing in the 21. century with all the track still in operation. It is a good reason/example if you put industry buildings so close together on a US layout with modern equipment.
Did you see the same layout with three tracks is one block west too.
Yes, I scrolled around a bit and looked at street names, tracks etc.
Interesting area. The neighborhood industry support yard seems to be a little bit to the SE, near Guernsey Street. A couple of rail served industries just off the west end of W Yale Street - quite a few other streets named for universities in that neighborhood, btw - Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Tulane.
Small industry branch off to the west along Industrial Way - with three sub-branches going southwards between industries.
And then the branch you mentioned branching off west just north of Silver Star Road, up towards Silver Meteor Drive, with the two small sub-branches northwards.
But wait - there is more! :-)
If you continue a little further west (across John Young Parkway) there is an interesting track configuration where you have a diamond crossing to get into one industry where the angle is too severe for a regular spur.
Smile,
Stein