Friday, January 16, 2015

Results of Poll concerning Industries to Model


Small Steel Mill with 1 or 2 blast furnaces.....9% (7)
Port/Harbor with a couple of ships perhaps a merchant ship and a passenger ship.....30% (24)
Old style amusement Park with operating rides.....2% (2)
Large Passenger station with 4 or 5 track yard & the city to go with it.....5% (4)
Small Passenger station and a smaller city/town with several small industries.....11% (9)
Elevated Rapid Transit operation in bigger city......2% (2)
City trolley system.......2% (2)

Added by Others:

Pulping paper mill in the 1950's-60'.....10% (8)
Grain elevator and flour mill .......10% (8)
Large something-or-other manufacturer, mill gons in, flatcar loads out, with small yard to serve off table un-modeled part of plant.......4% (3)
A manufacturing plant with a foundry and fabrication shop. Incoming loads would be pig iron, Scrap metal, casting sand, steel plates, structural steel. Outgoing - castings in box cars, larger Castings in crates on flat cars, fabricated steel objects crated or un-crated on flats......10% (8)
Cement Plant......1% (1)
Any "box cars" industry.......0% (0)
Ice racks and reefers.......1% (1)
Oil dealer or oil rack.......0% (0)
Back End of Refinery: includes specific loading racks for a variety of products including gasoline, diesel, kerosene, heavy oils, propane, sulfur or sulfuric acid, coke and misc chemicals.......2% (2)

Larger number of votes are printed in Bold

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