new layout with no name

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Ray;

Here are my suggestions, most based on prototype industries:    

Industries A and B can be a single industry - a food products distributor: Inbound box cars of food products and can goods (perhaps refrigerator cars of frozen meat or produce could be thrown into the mix) and general service (25,500 gal) tank cars of cooking oils. See Lance Mindheim's Downtown spur layout for two great examples. Not sure what type of tank cars you have, so you might still have to treat A and B as separate industries since cooking oils aren't handled in tank cars designed for corn syrup or chemicals.

C - A beer distributor that receives insulated box cars of beer (50ft or 60ft).

D - This facility could be based on a Trinidad-Benham facility that receives gravity discharge covered hoppers of beans, rice and popcorn for processing and packaging. It appears that you have some sort of overhead piping or a conveyor to a structure opposite the facility, but this would not be necessary as there is a nice prototype facility in Chino, CA that would work great on the front edge of your layout: http://maps.google.com/?ll=34.011477,-11...6&t=k&z=19

E - This could be a bulk cement transload that receives two bay covered hoppers of cement - off-loaded into small storage silos.

F - This one could be a paper products facility that ships paper products. In your layout era, most of the box cars would be 50ft hi-cube types, but regular 50ft box cars would also be used.

All these industries would provide for a nice assortment of car types and switching possibilities. Are you planning on using two switch crews to work the spur so that each can work the industries as trailing point moves or staging the train with the locomotive in the middle of the inbound/outbound cars? Either would be prototypical and I've worked spurs where we had to put the locomotive in the middle of the train as there was no runaround available on the spur.