11-24-2013, 12:24 PM
Brakie Wrote:These are large installations which were extensively rail-served in their heydey, and would make outstanding projects for those so inclined.
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Indeed..Mid Ohio Industrial Park in Shelby(Oh) and Marion industrial Center in Marion(Oh) are former WWII supply depots.These could easily be modeled by modeling several industries( need signs only) using the former Government warehouses..
Both are still rail served.
Several of them on the West Coast and in the West are as well. Sierra Depot, Navaho Depot, Pueblo Depot and Susanville Depot come most quickly to mind. Susanville handles depleted uranium, among other things., while Pueblo, of course, incinerates poison gases, and right next door to Pueblo Depot is the National Transportation Railroad Test Center! There are also two ammo dumps and a lot of interesting traffic into the National Training Center at Fort Irwin - beans, bullets a fuel of all types. A Division needs up to two hundred tons of supplies per day to stay in the field. Not all of the extensive rail network is still in place in many cases, but plenty is let, and environmental concerns could justify replacing some of the rail to reduce the number of gas-guzzling trucks.