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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First of year update

I read about a modeler who made a News Years resolution to complete one project on his layout per month so that at least 12 projects would be completed this year.

So I have taken the same approach to get more done on the layout.  So………………..

January:  Complete (finish) some structures that I have been fooling around with.  They range from 10% complete to 99% complete.  Also finish installing the temporary signals on the PRR side up to Warren’s gap.

February: Re-build the CTC to the changed design of the layout from the previous South Shore/ Western Maryland to the current PRR/Western Maryland.  Now that I have the Zing Air Cutter, I can cut the vinyl for the Model Board.

March: Build Penn Station Baltimore (also uses cutter), install the tunnels, and the city scenery areas and roads and roadbed for trolley/interurban Baltimore Transit.

April:  Build as needed and install signals on the Western Maryland end of the layout.