10-04-2010, 10:27 AM
FCIN Wrote:A team or trans-load track is always a great industry to include on a layout of any size. Just about anything might show up to be loaded or unloaded there. As you can no doubt tell, I consider it an essential industry. You can justify just about anything being received at a team or trans-load track. Seems like that hasn't changed much at all over the years. Many modern day short lines depend heavily on getting offline customers to ship/receive cars on a convenient, nearby track.
...and it doesn't even have to be an actual "trans-load" facility or team track. I like Lance Mindheim's idea of just spotting a car on the line to feed an off-line customer. He talks about it in one of the current "special" issues put out by MR. Apparently, there are actual customers in Miami that do this sort of thing and these are companies that are nowhere near the tracks.
Mike