L&N Industrial Rail Spur

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It seems like every layout has a generic warehouse or food processor, but how many layouts have a peanut butter plant?

Well as far as I know, you currently have the only layout plan that I've seen that has a peanut butter plant as the main industry; and a unique industry at that. Nice to see that someone took interest in the peanut butter plant as a main industry for a layout. Only a very few that I'm aware of include a food products distributor (not processor), which is a great industry for car variety and rail traffic. I dropped the "generic" warehouse from my planning some time ago, although it is a common rail served industry found all over the country.

An ISL with one large rail served industry and a handful of smaller, now and then customers, makes for a nice theme for a switching layout, but then so does one that includes several moderate sized rail served industries, such as my current plan. It can be a tough decision to make.

Any way, I have worked up a plan that would be based on a peanut butter plant as the main industry:     There is another variation of this plan on the Peanut Butter Plant thread, but this one works out a little better in some ways. The plan does have possibilities, but I'm pretty well pleased with the current design at this point:     Both plans have a lot of switching involved, but I'm just not sure that I want to change everything (again!) at this point. I've also been playing around some with a track plan that would represent a self-contained short line or switching operation, but so far haven't come up with one that really suits me. I'm more in to a plan representing a spur off a main line railroad (L&N specifically) then a freelance short line or switching company.