My new layout will include a facility for handling some corn syrup tank
>cars - that is, if I can come up with an appropriate structure / facility.
A corn sweetener producer, a commercial pancake syrup producer, perhaps Mabel's Syrup? Nah.
Jay Americans have the best legislature money can buy. Unfortunately it's corporate money.
Soda bottling plant, almost any food producer these days.
Don
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Matt, I am doing a food processing plant on my layout, and the plan is to use the Walthers Cornerstone oil loading platform between two adjacent tracks for corn syrup unloading. I'm sure it's not "correct" for that use, but once it's painted up properly it should be a reasonable stand-in.
I will be unloading no more than two cars at a time (one on each track) so a single kit will suffice for me. However, Walthers shows two kits combined into a longer version on their Web site
My plant building will be a modified version of the Walthers Red Wing Milling kit. I'll probably also add some vertical storage tanks next to the building but I haven't settled on that just yet.
Stevert
When you put the Staley plant in at the other end of the supply chain (great chance to model a small old mini-Empire State HQ building, btw), how do you plan to simulate the unforgetable east Decatur aroma of cooking soybeans?
A bottle of Aunt Jemima's. Certainly would be in interesting structure.
Your favorite candy factory.....
Or if you are into disasters, the corn syrup equivalent of the Boston Molasses Disaster.
Jim Stewart
Why not smell? Our layouts tend to be compressed and we pack far more operation in to any given period. A Big Boy pounding through with 50 stock cars full of crapping steers may be an experience out in the mountains, but if it comes round every minute, on the minute, in a confined space it could get overpowering! Let's not even think about Diseasel fumes!
Regards, Greg.P.
Been there, done that. There was a company called, I believe, "Olfactory Aires" that had little vials of odors that you could use about your layout. creosote, coal smoke, etc.
To make a long story short, his business failed.
Hmmm... I must say, some rather, uh, *creative* ideas have seen the light of day so far...
Matt
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Bruce.
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