Industry ideas for logging cars, milk cars, etc.

Two DPM kits with a flat.  Overhead piping and track side pipes are sprues from kits.  Vertical tanks are plastic milk bottles, two have cardstock wrapped around them to make them different heights.

One Hood's Dairy kit.

The building at the left and the building with HOOD are Hood kits by Walthers.

Atlas O offers the kit which is the same as the Walther's Hood Dairy Farm kit.  Listed in the OGR FOR SALE forum.

John in Lansing, ILL

Scratch built coal bins.  Coal conveyor is from St. Charles  Works.  Coal trucks are by K-Line with sides built up using card stock and beds raised and glued in position.

Scratch built REA Transfer Station copied from Walthers HO kit.

Walthers HO REA Transfer Station.

John in Lansing, ILL

I wanted a large creamery on my railroad but had no space for the building or buildings.  The solution was to have the structure in the aisle with loading/unloading docks at the edge of the layout.

Here is the receiving dock.  Raw milk from the farms arrives in cans that were picked up at trackside platforms along the route.  The workers unload full cans from the cars and replace with a like number of empty cans.  Individual farmers will exchange full cans for empties at their local trackside platform.

This is the shipping dock.  My creamery receives raw milk and ships cream and milk in bottles by truck (not modeled) and ships Pasteurized/homogenized milk in tanks contained in the Lionel milk reefers.  The milk is pumped directly into the tanks within the cars using the hoses seen on the dock.

Very awesome John, never would have even thought there was a kit for a dairy(what was I thinking). I'll have to see what I can pop into my plans about that. The coal I was thinking something much like that, some sort of area where it would be stored on the ground maybe for people to buy to heat their homes and the like.

What exactly is the transfer station for? Not passengers, right?

Very cool Bob with using the aisle way as your building. Utilizing space that isn't there to use the best way possible. I thought for the design I am imagining to have it wrap around(wacky dogbone). If I ever get time after work I'll plot the plans and pop them in the topic I started some time ago. Always great to imagine, but eventually things got to get on paper.

Dave, 

The freight was transferred from inbound express cars across the dock to delivery trucks.  And in the reverse direction, from city pickup and delivery trucks across the dock into outbound express cars(by destination).

Very few people would come to the coal yard for their coal.  It was usually delivered by the coal yard's dump trucks.  Orders were for a specified number of tons or a truck load, half load or quarter load.  If the truck could get on the property, a metal chute was used between the rear of the dump truck and the metal door at the coal bin inside the house.  If not, the coal was dumped on the street and the teenagers used a wheel barrow to get it to the coal bin's door.  A few trucks carried a gasoline engine powered conveyor belt. Fuel oil furnaces did away with the dusty coal bin.  Usually a 500 gallon tank would be placed in the coal bin with a filler cap outside.  The retail delivery truck would pump the heating oil from its tank, through its meter and hose directly into the home's tank. Natural gas lines replaced those services and jobs.

  John

Oh dang it John, silly me. I forgot all about coal chutes(says the guy that has seen The Ghost And Mr. Chicken more times than he can count). When I was in my late teens, early 20's(better than 20 years ago), my grandfather would drive over to Fox Lumber in Clinton NJ to pick up coal for his coal furnace. He would load up the back of his pickup and we would get 5 gallon pails and pop it in the basement in the coal bin he made. Even though his old coal furnace blew up a few years prior to me helping out on his farm, he replaced it with another(cheaper than oil). Miss them days, sure we all do.

Yeah waking up in the morning to a house a little above freezing, sure do miss those days of banking fires, cleaning out clinkers, and hauling ash to the back yard can to cool. 

Bogie

Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

 I know that there is of course the obvious possibility for logging camp or sawmill for the logs, and for the milk cars I was sketchy as I don't know if that is a straight pick up from a dairy farm, or dairy processing plant or such.

 

I would love to see some scale size butter dish milk cars in plastic. All I have are the Lionel O-27 size cars from ten years ago and the American Flyer tinplate cars from the prewar era.