Folks, Thanks for all the ideas about alternate (to paper mills) industries for these cars. I wonder, does anyone has any photos of the interior of these cars? I will be building a model of Norfolk

Very weird. They're just a few miles apart -- 30 minutes at 10 mph :-D On 8/3/2022 7:57 PM, Rich Gibson via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

The rayon plant is a large feature on Jim Brewer’s HO scale N&W Shenandoah layout. It was featured in Model Railroad Planning but I can’t recall the year. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Didn't someone create a model of one of these plants? -- I don't remember if it was MM or RMJ or MR or another magazine, but I do remember it was a printed article. Maybe 20

Good eyes, Bruce! According to a 1939 BAR timetable, they ran a number of mixed trains to outlying locations in the north woods. One of them was a 30 minute route from Millinocket (where Great

And in Scott's 1959 rayon and viscose fiber plants were still in production - Celanese at Narrows, VA and North American Rayon at Elizabethton TN were still active. I think Dupont in Waynesboro VA was

Until the late 1950's "wood chips" were called "hog fuel" and would be burned as fuel in furnaces although many sawmills simply burned them outright ! ( Those giant cone shaped

Also, the ground all over the place was covered ankle deep in wood chips. On 8/3/2022 7:42 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Scott In Wyoming I observed a loading track for woodchips at a sawmill. There was an overhead bin, and the car was tied off between two winches on the ground, and they moved it

I think it'll still work for your needs, Scott. __________________________________ Drew Bunn drew.r.bunn@... Cell - (905) 483-0758

Scott, Most pulp mills had a small storage area for cars - maybe 15 to 20 - so you could model that yard and put the entire mill "on the backdrop" ... perhaps even do some selective compression of

My mistake, Drew. I googled Knight Hardwood Flooring' before I saw your Attachment. They have several locations in HC. Scott Haycock

Rayon fabric is made from wood pulp. That's why in Washington state we had the logging company Rayonier. They also used the tree for making lumber and other purposes. Rich Wilkens

And they're in North Carolina! I'll research them. Thanks! Scott Haycock

In my case, this industry has to be in the isle of a near-eye level layout, so all I could include is a dock and a loader. But what a great place to display model freight cars for close-up viewing!

One of the industries on my future layout is Knight Flooring. Manufacturer of hardwood flooring for over 100 years, they had two seperate spurs that could be modelled with building flats using DPM

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 05:53 PM, Scott H. Haycock wrote: A spur with a loading dock for a couple of double door furniture box cars with a loader at the end! I don't have room for the factory itself.

Hi Jeff, I've thought about a chip loader, but it seems to me that a sawmill would need more rail service than just a chip loader. For instance lumber loading. I would

Scott, What about only modeling the woodchip loader on your layout? These often were away from the main lumber mill buildings with a pneumatic conveying pipe to the loader. The mill could be “off

That would work for pulpwood racks, but what about woodchip hoppers? I've got a photo of a beautiful(?) three bay hopper with wood extensions I'm dying to build, but these cars were loaded at