10-10-2011, 03:55 PM
.[/quote]Actually no other plant is needed..You see carloads of tin stock,labels etc can enter the layout via interchange that's how that Santa Fe or PFE reefer ended up at our industries,that how EJ&E coil cars ended up on our railroad or any foreign road name car we have in our freight car fleet..
The operation of a ISL is to emulate the prototype as it switches a industrial lead or branch and not to emulate the whole system so,the material would already arrived via a interchange point and added to our train at our home terminal which is modeled off layout since we are modeling a industry lead or branch.[/quote]
so you are not delivering to an actual factory, then? Just moving cars around? I got the impression that this thread was about delivering materials by rail to a specific industry, which would mean a much larger plant if it manufactures it's own containers in addition to the filler food product. Otherwise, you might as well deliver to a phone booth and claim it's an entire factory and warehouse operation - the realism just isn't there.
The operation of a ISL is to emulate the prototype as it switches a industrial lead or branch and not to emulate the whole system so,the material would already arrived via a interchange point and added to our train at our home terminal which is modeled off layout since we are modeling a industry lead or branch.[/quote]
so you are not delivering to an actual factory, then? Just moving cars around? I got the impression that this thread was about delivering materials by rail to a specific industry, which would mean a much larger plant if it manufactures it's own containers in addition to the filler food product. Otherwise, you might as well deliver to a phone booth and claim it's an entire factory and warehouse operation - the realism just isn't there.