CSX Deland Spur, FL

[Paulman]

Mal:

I've enjoyed your Florida modeling, and look forward to your next project. If you're still looking for potential pressurized hopper industries, here's one about 45 minutes from Deland in Eustis, FL. Tool World is a paint factory that gets regular shipments of pigment. This structure has some interesting elements. You've got the silos to add vertical interest, and some old Milwaukee boxcars that are attached to the buildings and used for storage or some other function (you can see them in Bing: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w&p=c/5872/style=auto&lat=nt6s32&lon=85s9c9&alt=-5.058944&z=20&h=90&pid=5874">http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/ ... 0&pid=5874</a><!-- m --> , as well as the caboose). Also, the office end of the factory used to be the Seaboard Coast Line's local freight depot.

Finally, Tool World has its own switcher in the form of a White Road Boss truck with a coupler mounted to the rear. Ivers Engineering made a metal kit that is a close match: TC-304 (info here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.87thscale.info/images/Catalogues/IversEngineering-2.jpg">http://www.87thscale.info/images/Catalo ... ring-2.jpg</a><!-- m --> ). I found one on eBay after a few months of watching.

One catch; this industry is serviced by Florida Central, not CSX. But you also have tourist rails coming through: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.orangeblossomcannonball.com">http://www.orangeblossomcannonball.com</a><!-- m -->, so if you want to have steam passenger service running through the scene every now and then, you can.