Railroad industries Prototype photo fun

[Steve B]

Thought it would be interesting to see some great shot's of railroad dependant industries that would be fun to model in any scale, it may be a paper mill, a steal mill, a warehouse or just about anything you may have a picture of that would be of interest to us all. There was an article in MR back in June 2002 looking at "Progressive Rail" which is in Lakeville Minn, they handle the rail traffic in the Airlake industrial park, there are pictures of some of the industries and also the rail layout in the four mile park.

Looking at it from another angle have you found any good looking industries on Google earth that you could either post as a picture or give the
co- ordinates to paste into the Google earth "Search box"

Anything will do from a single line spur to a vast powerstation complex ;)

[Steve B]

Here's a couple of places on google earth, just copy the co-ordinates and paste them into google earth "Search" box and click on search.

This is Doncaster locomotive works in eastern England and the station which is on the east coast main line
53°31'20.09"N 1° 8'31.50"W

and this is Bescot traction maintenance depot and marshaling yard in Birmingham England, Loads of trackwork and trains
52°33'36.68"N 1°59'7.11"W

[jbaakko]

I know I have a few, but I'll have to dig out the 2005 pictures CD to get them. I'll do that tonight.

[mtrpls]

Tropicana Distribution Center, Jersey City, NJ:

SCROLL --->>>

http://www.nycsystem.com/tropicana/jerseycitypano.jpg

[mtrpls]

...and the Juice Train is part of my collection (80 Tropicana cars in total, all with different numbers):

http://denverskyscrapers.com/nonweb/Tropicanamodels/images/IMG_3071.jpg

http://denverskyscrapers.com/nonweb/Tropicanamodels/images/IMG_3111.jpg



I'm about to build a scale model of the distribution center, it will work out to be about 20 feet long. It will have to be modular, of course. :eek:

[CSX_road_slug]

That's a neat idea Steve, I've viewed alot of steel mills via Google Earth on my home 'putor. Can't post the pics here since they're copyrighted though, but if I can get on tonite I'll try to find the coordinates and share them here...

[JeffShultz]

Here are a few of my local industries:

Marion County Ag:
http://www.shultzinfosystems.com/gallery/albums/Scenery/Marion_Ag_Service_Hopmere_3.sized.jpg

Western Farm Service (across the road from the above):
http://www.shultzinfosystems.com/gallery/albums/Scenery/Western_Farm_Service_Hopmere_3.sized.jpg

White's Hauling transload (across the tracks from the above):
http://www.shultzinfosystems.com/gallery/albums/Scenery/Whites_Hauling_Hopmere_8.sized.jpg
Covered hoppers of cattle feed to the conveyors in front, boxcars of cotton seed to the ramp in back.

St. Louis, OR transload:
http://www.shultzinfosystems.com/gallery/albums/Scenery/DSCF1071.sized.jpg
Same thing as White's Hauling, but on a slightly smaller scale.

More photos in these series, as well as others and larger versions, can be found at http://www.shultzinfosystems.com/gallery/Scenery

[CSX_road_slug]

Here are some "oldies" from a year ago:
http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2489
http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2541
http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2513

[Steve B]

That's the stuff,
Jeff i'll take a close look at your photo's later
Mtrpls what a train, very nice

[jbaakko]

Still have not found the shots I have, gimme some time...

[OldGettysk]

Some Proto Shots of Warehouse OLDGETTYSK

[Steve B]

Heres a steal mill complex just off tin mill rd to the south west of Birmingham,,, not a clue what the mill's called but maybe GM can shed some light, it a huge place, just up your street Ken

33°28'55.37"N 86°55'56.57"W

[OldGettysk]

Couple more shots of a cold storage unit OLDGETTYSK

[OldGettysk]

Just a footnote The warehouse use to be trackside but the tracks were removed a few years back OLDGETTYSK

[CSX_road_slug]

Heres a steal mill complex just off tin mill rd to the south west of Birmingham,,, not a clue what the mill's called but maybe GM can shed some light, it a huge place, just up your street Ken

33°28'55.37"N 86°55'56.57"WSteve, I know the one you're talking about: That's US Steel Corp - Fairfield Works. Been there once or twice while visiting relatives in the BHam area. Size-wise, it's on a par with the [former] Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point works in Baltimore.

[CSX_road_slug]

Couple more shots of a cold storage unit OLDGETTYSK
Getty, do you know what type of business that used to be?

[OldGettysk]

The cold storage unit was used by the local farmers. Mostly to keep apples during the long winter . They shipped out of this unit cross country and also locally. The other warehouse received goods for local distribution around North Tonawanda .

[CSX_road_slug]

Here are some photos I shot during a tour of a scrap metal processing facility in Dearborn MI during April, 2003. The images aren't in any logical order, and I can't really offer any detailed explanations of what some of these things are. Aside from that, they still "cry out" to be modeled!:D

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_001.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_002.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_003.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_004.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_005.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_006.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_007.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_008.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_009.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_010.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_011.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_012.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_013.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_014.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_015.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_016.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_017.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_018.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_019.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_020.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/Scrap_Metal_Yard/scrapyard_021.jpg

[Steve B]

Tell you what Ken,,, those pics have given me an idea especially pic number 9

Thanks for sharing them

[CSX_road_slug]

Steve, glad you liked them! I just found a gazzillion (well, more like 3-4 dozen) other 4"x6" prints of industrial photos I shot during my "pre-digital" days. Mostly of --- you guessed it! -- steel mills. I'll need to scan them and upload them soon...

[Steve B]

Keep em rolling in Ken

[jbaakko]

Ok, I found the CD!

Frazee Paint, receives Titanium Dixoide by rail:
4040
4041

Extra cars, stored next to a warehouse:
4042

Crest Beverage (alcholic beverage company) receives by rail, they spot six 62' insulated "beer cars" here. The previous picture was the extra's from here. Sometimes they spot a 50' car or two to the right, filled with lumber of some sort. As for Crest, the cars are spotted uncoupled, with the door lining up.
4043

[jbaakko]

This place receives some sort of powder, I think its plaster, or concrete powder, but it could be something similar. The oppisite side of the building usually has a bulk transport trailer & pup truck, similar to what they haul the concrete in.
4044

4045

I like this "stop" sign...
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[jbaakko]

The Mirimar Transload area, they spot everything from DODX & TTX flats, to TTX centerbeams, tank cars, box cars, and covered hoppers. Pics showing what happens when you have a lazy forklift operator:
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4049

More of the Frazee Paint area:
4050

4051

[jbaakko]

Sorry about the quality of some of these, they were taken with a digital video camera.

The Crest beverage area, more in depth:
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And one shot of a DODX car in the transload area...
4054

[NWR #200]

Well First off, I have Ft. Lewis, WA. Here, solid trains of military equipment (Humvees, tanks, trucks, and a plethora of support vehicles) are loaded on to DODX flats and shipped around the country, as well as ports of embarkation.

The Army uses a green goat painted bright red with yellow lettering.

47° 4'37.86"N 122°35'37.37"W

Notice the ramps.

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And now for my favorite industry: Lumber.

http://apps.ecy.wa.gov/shorephotos/scripts/bigphoto.asp?id=MAS0087

This is the Simpson Lumber Co. Mill in Shelton, WA. It features its own RR to switch out outbound lumber loads, as well as bring in logs and rough cut lumber from a sort yard about 10 miles West of town. They ship chips by barge to a pulp mill elsewhere on Puget Sound (probably Tacoma.) The mill's interchange is served by the Puget Sound & Pacific RR, a Rail America company.

http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?railroad=Simpson%20Timber

[OldGettysk]

I found one more shot of the Youngstown Cold Storage Unit OLDGETTYSk

[Steve B]

http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4067&d=1157939426

[Steve B]

I was driving around in a truck from work today and i snapped a few pics en route, there was nowhere to stop so they are out of the window shots,,, not brilliant but the only option

This is a ballast hopper loading facillity on the North Wales coast line, stone comes down from the quarry into hoppers then it's fed onto a conveyor into the chute
http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL859/3311461/12672454/186732762.jpg
This is the chute with a great big piece of scrap conveyor rubber to stop anything going astray
http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL859/3311461/12672454/186732775.jpg
Moving down the coast is another area for loading up ships with stone, the conveyor system rolls back and forth so the hold is loaded evenley
http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL859/3311461/12672454/186732768.jpg
and this is the conveyor from the quarry which is out of site

http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL859/3311461/12672454/186732778.jpg
this is another shot of another conveyor
http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL859/3311461/12672454/186732783.jpg
and on the way back we passed this nuclear power station, access to this place is very hard so you will have to make do with this shot
http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL859/3311461/12672454/186733819.jpg
A chemical facillity in St Helens
http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL859/3311461/12672454/186733814.jpg
http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL859/3311461/12672454/186733827.jpg
http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL859/3311461/12672454/186733825.jpg

One day i'll go and take some better shot's when i get more time

[natfoot]

local industrys as viewed from local.live.com


this is a glass plant where they make bottels and recycle glass. the lead is to the north leading south into the plant.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rxrtg04t4pt8&style=o&lvl=1&scene=3698771

I am not sure exactly what this is but it is a metal plant of some sort.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rxmx244t75g4&style=o&lvl=1&scene=3704729

and here is the rycycling center as it says right on the roof.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=rxwqc14t5417&style=o&lvl=1&scene=3706370

[NWR #200]

Steve, you are driving on the wrong side of the road. :D

Thats looks like quite the impressive chemical facility.

[dnhouston]

Great shots! Thanks for all the prototype ideas.

[Steve B]

Seth no wonder there are so many accidents,;)

I like the shot of the re-cycling center, you could do that with a Pikestuff kit or two

[OldGettysk]

Great Shots Steve you know nowadays if you drive around the USA. and take shots of active plants their liable to arrest you for being a terrorist . Isn't it s state of affairs when you can't take friendly pictures anymore

[Steve B]

Paul your right about that,,, i came back past the port of Liverpool and right by the fence was an intermodal being loaded but if i'd stopped the police would jump on you instantly, hence no pics of it

[CSX_road_slug]

**WOW** There are some really fantastic pix appearing on this thread, great work guys!

[Steve B]

http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4827

this is a nice one from josh