06-06-2010, 01:59 PM
Here's a couple more ideas for tank cars:
On the NYS&W there was a customer that used to receive liqued fertilizer every spring. The customer - of course - was seasonal, and did not have a siding of their own. They were located about 5 miles from the railroad. They only required a siding close enough to them to offload their product into tank trucks to move it back to their facility. We had a "team track" that this customer used to receive their tank cars. The cars, from what I remember, were always GATX or NATX initialed. The siding was nothing special - it was "just a siding" with a bumper on the end. This siding was also used by another customer to offload grain cars. VERY EASY TO MODEL!
Another option for you - if you want to use a bunch tank cars - is taken from a another railroad up here in the great taxed state of NY. The MA&N has a "HUGE" rail customer in Rome, NY - East Coast Olive Oil. They receive inbound loads of differents kinds of vegetable oils that they mix to make different brands of oils used for cooking. Their siding is somewhat simple - 2 tracks - with numerous hoses and pipeing. Oil is pumped out of the cars direcly into the single story wharehouse and into smaller silos. Not much effort is needed to model this. All you need is - of course, tank cars (GATX, ACFX, UTLX) a wharehouse, a siding with 1 or 2 tracks and lots of hose or pipes.
As others have mentioned, paper mills did use tank cars too. But, some mills, like the one we serviced in Lyons Falls, NY, received chemicles too, which was used to treat the paper. Lyons Falls Pulp & Paper received Sulpher and Hydrochloric Acid (Caustic) to treat their paper. The Caustic was unloaded on a seperate track - room only for 1 car where it was piped into a large silo. The sulpher, meanwhile, was unloaded on the same track that the boxcars where unloaded on, and piped to God knows where. If you have a paper mill, just add another siding for the tank cars too.
Tank cars can be used for just about anything and can be unloaded, or used at just about any industry. They "fit in" just about anywhere.
I hope these ideas can give you "some inspiration"
Happy Modeling
On the NYS&W there was a customer that used to receive liqued fertilizer every spring. The customer - of course - was seasonal, and did not have a siding of their own. They were located about 5 miles from the railroad. They only required a siding close enough to them to offload their product into tank trucks to move it back to their facility. We had a "team track" that this customer used to receive their tank cars. The cars, from what I remember, were always GATX or NATX initialed. The siding was nothing special - it was "just a siding" with a bumper on the end. This siding was also used by another customer to offload grain cars. VERY EASY TO MODEL!
Another option for you - if you want to use a bunch tank cars - is taken from a another railroad up here in the great taxed state of NY. The MA&N has a "HUGE" rail customer in Rome, NY - East Coast Olive Oil. They receive inbound loads of differents kinds of vegetable oils that they mix to make different brands of oils used for cooking. Their siding is somewhat simple - 2 tracks - with numerous hoses and pipeing. Oil is pumped out of the cars direcly into the single story wharehouse and into smaller silos. Not much effort is needed to model this. All you need is - of course, tank cars (GATX, ACFX, UTLX) a wharehouse, a siding with 1 or 2 tracks and lots of hose or pipes.
As others have mentioned, paper mills did use tank cars too. But, some mills, like the one we serviced in Lyons Falls, NY, received chemicles too, which was used to treat the paper. Lyons Falls Pulp & Paper received Sulpher and Hydrochloric Acid (Caustic) to treat their paper. The Caustic was unloaded on a seperate track - room only for 1 car where it was piped into a large silo. The sulpher, meanwhile, was unloaded on the same track that the boxcars where unloaded on, and piped to God knows where. If you have a paper mill, just add another siding for the tank cars too.
Tank cars can be used for just about anything and can be unloaded, or used at just about any industry. They "fit in" just about anywhere.
I hope these ideas can give you "some inspiration"
Happy Modeling
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Steve
Let's go Devils!
Steve
Let's go Devils!