10-03-2012, 02:06 PM
here is e.g a quick and dirty way of looking at industries and track plans.
I googled for "Bangor and Aroostook", read the wikipedia article, saw that they had served paper industries in Millinocket, East Millinocket and Madawaska, ME. Used http://www.bing.com/maps to zoom in on these places and look for train tracks.
The Millinocket facility had lots of switchbacks - not smart for a small layout, dropped.
The Madawaska facility looked more promising: http://binged.it/QQmBfd
Taking inspiration from, but not trying to do an exact representation, I hacked up this possible track plan:
![[Image: madawaska.jpg]](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/forum/madawaska.jpg)
Okay - if we can use a removable switching lead of 2 feet or 30", then there is room to build a relatively large paper mill - with inbound and outbound loads of various kinds - taking a list of paper industry chemicals from the opsig website: http://www.opsig.org/reso/inddb/PaperChemicals.txt
For instance. Just an example - not an attempt to steer you in a specific direction. And it is not a given that you will have room for a detachable switching lead.
Smile,
Stein
I googled for "Bangor and Aroostook", read the wikipedia article, saw that they had served paper industries in Millinocket, East Millinocket and Madawaska, ME. Used http://www.bing.com/maps to zoom in on these places and look for train tracks.
The Millinocket facility had lots of switchbacks - not smart for a small layout, dropped.
The Madawaska facility looked more promising: http://binged.it/QQmBfd
Taking inspiration from, but not trying to do an exact representation, I hacked up this possible track plan:
Okay - if we can use a removable switching lead of 2 feet or 30", then there is room to build a relatively large paper mill - with inbound and outbound loads of various kinds - taking a list of paper industry chemicals from the opsig website: http://www.opsig.org/reso/inddb/PaperChemicals.txt
For instance. Just an example - not an attempt to steer you in a specific direction. And it is not a given that you will have room for a detachable switching lead.
Smile,
Stein