Beer Distributor - Ontario, CA

[jwb]

But even on a very modern layout, you have other choices, like a transload, which can handle covered hoppers with feed, tank cars, flats and gons with pipe, rebar, or structural steel, centerbeams with lumber (visible loads are a very good thing), boxcars with lumber, etc. I simply wouldn't try to model a coal loadout on an ISL, that's more for a club-size layout that can handle unit trains. You've still got the question of what you want and how it'll keep you interested over time.