Interesting, but un-modeled industries

[nkp_174]

Has anyone modelled a glass factory?

I have been doing extensive research and though many didnot survive, ther are ome that you could model. I have seen photos of one in Ohio that is being switched by an Indiana & Ohio GP30, yes the Proto 2000 model.

What got me interested was loking for a use for the short covered hoppers I had acquired. They were used for carrying silica sand. However many of the earlier glass factories pre-date the use of hoppers, the sand came in boxcars.

I had also obtained the Roundhouse EMD Model 40 in Cushing Stone, thinking how about a micro layout that I could call Cushing Glass?

The short covered hoppers from Atlas, that they now sell in their Trainman range date from the mid 1950's, whilst the ones that Bowser do are from about a decade earlier. The Bowser ones also have see-through roof-walks in styrene and are a joy to make.

I would like to hear from anyone else interested in rail-served glass factories.

Cheers

Ken

I do not have any particular interest in the glass industry, but I'm curious about you idea. Most of the posts in this thread do not fit at all with the original question...they are just a random list of industries. You not only have brought up an industry I can't recall having been modeled anywhere, but are planning to model it

Where in Ohio is the facility? I live in Cincinnati (I&O territory)...and my family lives up near Lima in the northern I&O territory.

I too have 3 of those Bowser hoppers...nice cars! It would be cool to model it as receiving both boxcars and hoppers when they were new.