Thanks for the great comment. Nothing better than a real life story about railroading... from a real railroader. Small world. Thanks for sharing and for watching! Cool that your dad was an engineer on that industry. Love the story about the guard and cookies.

Thanks for the kind comments. Yes, having multiple different spots per industry is great on a switching layout. It’s also generally what you see in the real world. I couldn’t find a perfect prototype location in the southern New England area, so I went with this approach to have the types of industries I wanted for switching and just for that nice industrial feel. Glad you liked the video. Keep me posted on your layout!

Thank you! I really appreciate the comment. Glad it was helpful. Keep me posted on your progress.

Thanks!

Yeah I didn’t realize it was your layout when I first looked at your ADM facility post, but then it clicked when I saw your most recent video with the key. Your layout looks outstanding. We’ll definitely connect soon at @ThePWMRR. Thanks for the comment!

Thank you for the nice comment and for watching. Yes, we do have to compress reality to make it work in a layout. Unless we have 1:1 space, which we don’t. Happy New Year.

Thanks Tom! Really appreciate the comment. I enjoy your KZfaq content, so appreciate you checking out my video.

Great railroad choices. Hopefully you can get some ideas from my videos given the size you are planning. I was going to do 24” but it was more because of space that I went with 20”. The extra 4” will give you a bit more space. Be sure to leave a few inches between the front tracks and the edge of the layout. It’s worth it if there is ever a derail. Also looks better. I’d love to see the progress and exchange ideas.

Thanks for the comment and for watching. Glad you liked it!

Thanks. I’ve been watching your channel also. Great layout and enjoyable content. Thanks for checking out my posts.

Fair point and good insights for other viewers also. Thanks for positing. The good thing with that industry is I could change it from salt to 2 deliveries of flour. Don’t need to change a thing other than my imagination. I didn’t do sugar because that comes via the corn syrup. I have read that bakeries take salt via hopper but perhaps you are right that the size of the bakery would determine that. In my case I could also assume the first delivery is flour and the second corn meal. Or just 2 deliveries of flour. Thanks for the post and for the nice comment. Also thanks for watching.

@@HartfordWhaler Yeah, that's the good thing about that kind of industry. The hoppers could be delivering anything, and it wouldn't change the railroading. I vote for jelly beans. 😁

Preferably Jelly Belly brand!

exactly bring in flour (there are many types and grades) and other grains, in hoppers. Bring the salt in bagged in boxcars. That would be the more likely way (look at the Salt plants like along the great Salt Lake.) Salt in covered hoppers is mostly for road salt and mining and ore processing.

Just a note from someone who is a home baker. For cakes and cake like product's large quantities of sugar are used. Sugar is what creates the texture of the cake. Corn syrup is added to retain moistur, and that fresh texture. Think of the difference between crisp crunchy cookies and soft moist cookies. Like your RR and I am a new subscriber. Good comment about era appropriate structures as my cutoff time is 1960, so my structures and cars would be totally different, but the same principles apply.

Thank you! They need some finishing touches, but getting there. Thanks for watching and for the nice comment.

Good thought. The Ammonia pipes can be seen in the prototype in my post. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!

8’ will work fine if you plan it well. Sometimes less is more. Keep me posted, I’d love to see what you come up with! Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching.

@@HartfordWhaler will do . I look forward to starting it.

Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching. Glad you liked it!

Thanks! Thanks for watching.

Most welcome 😊

Sounds like a nice set up. I did have n scale earlier but it’s just easier for me to handle ho now. The upside of course is you get quite a bit more track and space with n. On my layout, I have 2 inbound/interchange tracks. One holds 5 cars and an engine and the other holds 4 and an engine. So one switching job is to take the cut of 5 cars out to the industries and exchange those cars with what’s at the industries. Then what I bring back from the industries goes back into the interchange track to be taken away by the interchange rr. Then I can take out the 4 car cut from the other interchange track and switch the remaining cars at the industries. It’s as if the second cut is the second day of operations on the rr. So, between the 2 interchange tracks, I can switch out all 9 car spots. If that makes sense. I can easily spend 3hrs by myself if I pace it in prototypical time. Also, after each car cut is switched, I change engines and the one I was using has to go to the fueling pad for fuel and service. Adds another dimension. Would be good to see your layout as it progresses. Thanks for watching and for the comment.

Yes I operate with a local group where we rotate between everyone’s layouts. Mostly we operate on @ThePWMRR layout since he has the largest (and nicest) layout for multiple operators. I can have 2-3 operators on mine. If one is conductor and one engineer and a third guy can organize the inbound/interchange tracks. It also works well with just 1 when I need down time. Thanks for the comment.

@@HartfordWhaler I sent a screenshot of your list of influencers to Don :)

Nice. Don has been a big inspiration. His knowledge of operations and detailing is unreal. His layout should be a feature in model railroader.