I've always been particularly fond of brewries (and not just 'cause I'm a lush from Milwaukee <G>), but they do provide some good variety. Recieve covered hoppers of grain and malt, box cars
of cans, bottles and other packaging materials, tank cars of fuel oil and chemical tankers of cleaning chemicals and Ship out finished product in box cars for bottles and cans, reefers for kegs, or
even intermodal. Even receive the occasional flat car of new vats or machinery.
Don Dellmann
Possible brewery loads:
In
Corn syrup (glass lined tank cars) used as an adjunct in brewing
Cleaning products (tank cars) cleanliness is next to Godliness
Malt, Barley - (covered hopper, box car) basic ingredient
Boxes / cans / bottles (box car) basic ingredient
Hops (reefer) basic ingredient
Out
Spent grain (covered hopper, box car) used as cattle feed
Broken bottles (hopper) recycled into new bottles
Crushed cans (gondola) recycled
Beer - (reefer, box car) sent to my house
Mark
Also, for a brewery, malt (and adjuncts such as corn syrup) are far and away the #1 ingredient (except for water), in terms of weight and volume (like, say 80 or more to 1 over hops). Some breweries
use actual maize or rice instead of syrups. Yeast to pharmaceutical companies and bulk CO2 are also byproducts. Although I am not all that familiar with Canadian liquor laws, I understand that at one
time they favored companies with a brewery in each province.
Don
So there is no need to restrict to grains in / beer out. All the commodities and products and waste could be transported by rail. Nobody has to know what is transported by truck off-stage. I call it
that, because what you build is a 'scene' in which the railroad supplies the actors. It is you who decides which parts of real life are shown, and how. I was born as a neighbour of a modest brewery,
The 'Phoenix' in Amersfoort, Netherlands. (it left its traces ;-)), in me..), the brewery closed long ago, and is replaced by the police headquarters and the fire brigade.. As a child I watched the
regular railroad serving of it. The brewery had two spurs, and internal transport and transfer to the boxcars went by narrow-gauge flat lorries, that were propelled by human force. The lorries came
out through the main gate in the buildings. We liked to play with a lorry if one was left outside.. that was happiness..
Wim van Bemmel
I have to admit gentlemen that the neatest, most 'railroady' industry I've ever seen in real life has been brewerys, no kidding. They have several types of grain cars (hops and barely and corn in
some places), tank cars (water and chemicals for cleaning the huge vats and the bottling/canning processes), and literally HUNDREDS of both refrigerated and non refrigerated boxcars of every size and
shape. Add to this plenty of real estate running thru all kinds of 'industry' looking buildings with all kinds of those cool railroad industry shapes and corners and roof details and wires and pipe,
track disappearing into 'brick canyons', I could go on and on, but with the exception of a Steel Plant (which while I think their totally awesome, they are #1Region specific. I grew up in Southern Ca
and have never seen a steel mill, as has not the majority of the american populace, especially the west coast) and #2 Too large to do justice in size wise. There is just too much MRR real estate it
takes up to do it justice. This is all my very HUMBLE opinion folks, not putting down the very cool steel mills at all, just my point of view!) I don't think there is a better, more railroady
industry you can model, period.
David Grundman