Urban Layout Industry List

[Brakie]

One of my favorites is a reclaim operation--In scrap rubber in large cardboard gaylords and tank cars of J-Flex..Out covered hoppers of rubber pellets,empty boxcars and tank cars.

[Dave V]

How about a scrapple factory?  Inbound loads of snouts, a$$h*les, and horse nipples.

[asciibaron]

pittsburg pre-fab potholes.

name the layout.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Oh yeah, corn syrup, gotta do that.

Booze distributor? Good call there too, gotta do something with all those RBLs...

Keep em coming!

[wm3798]

This is the area you're talking about.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=39.29577063070794~-76.61023026481872&lvl=17&sty=h

Other than the Sunpapers, there wasn't much going in there.  The only industries that existed on this line at all were warehousing operations, most of which were gone by 1985.

You can see what's left of WM's Hillen Terminal there north of Orleans Street viaduct.  The big warehouse is the only thing that survived Chessie the Knife.

Lee

[wm3798]

How about a scrapple factory?  Inbound loads of snouts, a$$h*les, and horse nipples.

That's an Eastern Shore thing... In Baltimore, you get "More Parks Sausages, Mom!.... Please?"
Washed down with Cloverland Milk (If you don't own a cow call Cloverland now! North 9-2222"
Or of course, a nice platter of bacon from Baron von Esskay... You can Taste the Difference Qu-ality Makes!"
Washed down with some National Beer, National Beer, You'll like the taste of National Beer... It's from the Land of Pleasant Living we bring you National Beer!

God it's depressing how nothing is made in this stupid town anymore. :-[
BTW, R.I.P. Black and Decker.

Lee

[Ed Kapuscinski]

BTW, I'm not limiting myself to the REAL Guilford Ave IT area, in fact, note that Inolex is in Philly.

Brakie, tell me more about that. I'd love to see some photos.

[up1950s]

This depends if you want rail to industry interface , or just common track side industries .

Interface

Junk yard ... Scrap piles , gons
Iron works ... retail and wholesale if iron , like Orange County Iron the ohher OCC business  , flats and gons
Chain link and wroght iron fences ... flats and gons
Compressed gas company ... Tank car , box car


non interface

School bus yard
Cranes and other heavy equipment  ... contract and rent
Construction company ... Dump trucks and back hoes

[asciibaron]

no one has posted American Can yet?  really.  tsk tsk Lee.

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qjd7fd8mjcdm&scene=31890497&lvl=2&sty=b

and while over on The Knife, the Desoto Ave/Wilmarco Ave section from A yard has some interesting bits

[GonzoCRFan]

Inolex gets tankcars of animal-based substances to make bases for cosmetics...so stuff like tallow, fatty acids and the like.

What you need, Ed, is a brewery. I am dismayed to look at Bing and see that most of what's left of the Brewerytown section of Philly has been leveled, but the brick structure gives you the gist of it:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qnwxxy8r1097&scene=35737034&lvl=1&sty=b&where1=Philadelphia%2C%20PA

Here's the former Esslinger's brewery down around 10th and Noble:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qnswcb8r3dm8&scene=35747865&lvl=1&sty=b&where1=Philadelphia%2C%20PA

Schmidt's brewery has been gone almost a decade now, but that too was a killer urban brewery:

http://pabreweryhistorians.tripod.com/schmidts.html

[wm3798]

I mentioned the whole of Boston Street, knob.

I'd avoid the large "yard" or "transfer" type modern industries...They tend to be rather suburban looking.   Stick to breweries, loft warehouses, and other such "urban canyon" type shippers.  Makes for dull traffic, but more interesting buildings.

Gunthers Brewery in Baltimore... and just up the street the remains of Natty Boh.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qjcw7g8mkh1p&scene=31896187&lvl=1&sty=b

Lee

[AlkemScaleModels]

The Lever Bros plant off the Canton is a good rail served industry. Tank cars and hoppers.

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qjbzbq8mmsx1&scene=31901977&lvl=1&sty=b

Actually Canton has lots of other good possibilities.

This is one of my favorites from Bawlmer. I thinbk it was a vinegar factory, maybe a brewery or distillery.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qjqwfw8mcbr9&scene=31863660&lvl=2&sty=b

The Shirley Industrial park in Alexandria, VA has some cool industries - washington Post printing, Southern Iron, Vulcan Materials. I have a chapter in my book on it. Here is the Bing link:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qfzhkw8k1xqq&scene=3251100&lvl=2&sty=b

Note the local train with caboose working the Washington Post plant in this shot.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qfzpfv8k116x&scene=22897880&lvl=2&sty=b
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qfzqmj8k0d85&scene=22897903&lvl=2&sty=b

[Chris333]

Got the whole layout right here:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=38.803967246113736~-77.08611119487682&lvl=17&sty=h
 

[up1950s]

Got the whole layout right here:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=38.803967246113736~-77.08611119487682&lvl=17&sty=h
 

Thats the most model like , prototype track plan I have ever seen .

[Dave Schneider]

I will raise a glass in support of breweries.....
Here is my goal, the Milwaukee Road Beer Line in Milwaukee. This photo from the mid-1950s shows many of the signature elements.



One from the mid-1960s



Large grain elevators for box cars and covered hoppers, corn syrup tank cars,  bottling house for insulated boxcars or reefers, as well as a beat up hopper for broken glass, hops in RBLs or reefers, coal or fuel oil for the power plant, team track (at the bottom) for loading Pabst (located 1/2 mile away). This is a great area that has the urban canyon feel, elevation changes,bars, stores and small industries. Not seen is a small transfer facility for newsprint from the time when Milwaukee had two daily papers. There is also a tannery located at the upper right to receive nasty hide boxcars and tank cars.
 


This is one of the reasons for my chosen era of 1972 as composite side boxcars were still be used and new 100 ton covered hoppers were arriving. There were also some tanneries on the other side of the river that were serviced via team track.



Several large warehouses for Gimbels and Schusters department stores add some additional destinations for cars through some cool street running.



Farther down the line, there was sand and gravel business, Tews Cement, Standard Oil, another team track dedicated to loading pipe into 40  foot peak-a-boo gondolas (composite sides with the wood removed), and of course a sausage factory.




Of course, the rail service is now gone, and many of the buildings have been torn down or converted in lofts and condos. Ironically, my sister works in the former Schilitz bottling plant which is now office space.
Hope you like the photos.
Best wishes, Dave