Beer Distributor - Ontario, CA

[iandrewmartin]

As far as a beer distributor, I would opt instead for a grocery distributor...

On the Vinson Lead in Austin, TX right out at the end of the lead sat the US Foodservice warehouse, that had been rail served before Istarted working there in 1998. I toook some photos of the facility from the rail side.

A little history here was that the facility was split into two:

• - The rail side was the dry warehouse with pallet racking and the normal warehouse look that you see in many photos.
  - The front of the building (where the offices were) was all cold store.

The rail spur ran right down to the front of the building and was able to serve both the cold store and the dry warehouse.

I'll dig out the photos tonight and post them on my gallery (http://huntervalleylines.com/gallery/thu...p?album=46) tonight. Now keep in mind that these were taken with film and then digitised and they are therefore not all that large. However, the few photos that I have show the general layout of the spur off the lead. Very simple though. The switch into the siding is a trailing switch. The return run up the Lead back to the mainline would be a push move with any cars ahead of it to the passing siding about 1.5 miles up the line.

Lots of switching though to get this done right as the cars need to be in the right order to be put at the right doors. If switching is your thing though this could be a great location to have on your layout. And easy to reproduce on any layout, of any size - large or small.