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Re: Beer Distributor - Ontario, CA - Mike Kieran - 04-08-2013
Brakie Wrote:As far as a beer distributor, I would opt instead for a grocery distributor.
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Mike,Excellent idea..I might opt for a distributor of tobacco and alcohol beverages but,I like boxcars.
Another thought would be a frozen food manufacturer or pet food manufacturer.
Me too. I'm addicted to IPD box cars. A beer distributor especially if you only have a warehouse-like building for only 1 or 2 car spots.
Re: Beer Distributor - Ontario, CA - Mr Fixit - 04-10-2013
Firstly Hello and Welcome Chew86.
With regard to your idea of a brewery loading dock and having to use bridge plates to load the outer cars, you may like to check out the late Carl Arendt's website on micro and small layouts at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.carendt.com">http://www.carendt.com</a><!-- m -->, where there is an article and photo about a real brewery switching puzzle.
Basically there was a line of doors at the loading dock and the boxcars were spotted on transfer plates and slid over to the door ways. The reason for this was because cars were loaded with different product at each door and the speed with which the product could be loaded required a means to move the full cars without disturbing the other cars being loaded.
Check out "A Pony Keg of Coors" on the Micro Layouts Using No Switches page.
I am sure that this real world example will get the creative juices flowing. I even thought about how I would build such a layout and I dont even drink.
The rest of the site is a literal gold mine of small and micro layout ideas and solutions to make your brain sizzle.
Mark
P.S Somewhere on the site there is also a photo of that or a similar operation where you can see detail of the transfer table beams the boxcars ride on.
Found it; The Real Coors Transfer Table, Scrapbook Page 83a.
Re: Beer Distributor - Ontario, CA - Brakie - 04-11-2013
I am sure that this real world example will get the creative juices flowing. I even thought about how I would build such a layout and I dont even drink.
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One could do a ISL based on a brewing company the size of Coors..Coors even has their own fleet of plant switchers-SW8s IIRC.Anheuser-Busch owned their own railroad-Manufacturers Railroad.
Re: Beer Distributor - Ontario, CA - eje - 04-11-2013
Memphis has a Budweiser distributor that gets switched almost every day. It gets the 60' Manufacturers Railway insulated boxcars.
Re: Beer Distributor - Ontario, CA - Catt - 04-12-2013
When it comes to these "Big Box" buildings the fun is in the details.You can add a lot of character with the right ones.Colours and textures go a long ways too.
Re: Beer Distributor - Ontario, CA - iandrewmartin - 04-17-2013
Brakie Wrote:As far as a beer distributor, I would opt instead for a grocery distributor...
On the Vinson Lead in Austin, TX right out at the end of the lead sat the US Foodservice warehouse, that had been rail served before Istarted working there in 1998. I toook some photos of the facility from the rail side.
A little history here was that the facility was split into two:
- - The rail side was the dry warehouse with pallet racking and the normal warehouse look that you see in many photos.
- The front of the building (where the offices were) was all cold store.
I'll dig out the photos tonight and post them on my gallery (http://huntervalleylines.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=46) tonight. Now keep in mind that these were taken with film and then digitised and they are therefore not all that large. However, the few photos that I have show the general layout of the spur off the lead. Very simple though. The switch into the siding is a trailing switch. The return run up the Lead back to the mainline would be a push move with any cars ahead of it to the passing siding about 1.5 miles up the line.
Lots of switching though to get this done right as the cars need to be in the right order to be put at the right doors. If switching is your thing though this could be a great location to have on your layout. And easy to reproduce on any layout, of any size - large or small.
Re: Beer Distributor - Ontario, CA - iandrewmartin - 04-18-2013
All;
As promised I have uploaded all of the files I can find from US Foodservice to the gallery along with a 38 other photos from the Bergstrom (Vinson) Lead.
http://huntervalleylines.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=46&pid=531#top_display_media
Sorry there are not more for you, but when I worked there I did not think of how unique the railway spur was - oh for a time machine. Additionally there is a walk-through of the line available for you here should you be so interested:
http://www.huntervalleylines.com/LayoutIdeasTheBergstromIndustrialVinsonLeadAustinTexas.aspx
Have a good day/night/morning/evening, whereever you are
Regards