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Thanks, yeah the UTLX ones would be the safest, still wondering what size tank car and if in fact caustic soda is delivered to Inland for the adhesive?

I'd say that any of those tanks that aren't lettered for a specific commodity or company and just carry reporting marks would be just fine and preferable. As Reinhard pointed out, they could serve multiple uses. If the car is stenciled that it contains a particular commodity, you can always paint that out. See that done on the real one's all the time. You might want to contact Jack Hill pertaining to the tank cars he says spot at his facility and get a better idea of the proper type car.

Decided to change the Distribution Warehouse on the West side to something like Trujillo & Sons... I may change this back to a warehouse as I don't want to have all my industries looking the same with silo's and box cars.... Will seee how it feels. Also did the first non-rail served industry on the front edge of the layout, this will be a concrete facility with readymix and prefabricated concrete products etc...need to find a nice prototype for that, coz at this stage it's all in my head!

You certainly have captured the look of the Trujillo & Son facility! I personally love the way that structure is laid out and was the inspiration for my own food processing facility, as you well know. Not too far from that facility is Family & Son that also receives the same type cars as near as I can determine, but this structure just has that unique look to it. Even though you've just made a mock up of, it's great! I'd stay with it. No need to worry about other industries on the spur also having storage tanks/silos.

I'll look around some and see if I can find you some Google/Bing locations showing a concrete ready mix plant that might be inspiring. Be warned though, all the ones I've ever seen will have one or more silo's.