Urban Layout Industry List

[conrail98]

I agree, a brewery in an urban setting is fitting. I also like Bernie's suggestion on a paper printing, particularly for your area of Baltimore you're looking at,

Phil

[AlkemScaleModels]

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

It is a Metro subway line repair yard. We toured it at the 1996 N Scale Convention.

[AlkemScaleModels]

This is a good spot to add to a layout. A couple of spurs serving a brick yard and a couple warehouses.

 http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qfzxp98k4kqs&scene=24044817&lvl=2&sty=b

[Iain]

Any McCormick Spice places nearby that could be modeled.   

Yes, since I own a very small fraction of McCormick (my family has owned McCormick stock as long as there has been McCormick stock).


Resinol Chemical Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resinol
With a little proto-freelancing (relocating) and bending of history (making the operation bigger, perhaps), you could make it work.  The company was funded by my great-great grandfather, Henry Dulaney.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Iain, find me a link to a pic of one of their facilities.

In other news, this stuff is getting too easy:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=inolex+chemical&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.452734,77.695313&ie=UTF8&hq=inolex+chemical&hnear=&ll=39.920704,-75.146246&spn=0,359.998304&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=39.920704,-75.146246&panoid=BCgYx_2Foy4WIKJvrS_-AA&cbp=12,56.57,,0,5

[Ian MacMillan]

Ed here is the list that I am building of rail served urban industries for my layout.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYBbkONDqsLIZGhwbnhjNGJfNjBjcHo2c3NnOA&hl=en

I'm slowly building the list more and more as I find more that fit my area on the B&M/MEC industries database, and also the OpsSIG website database.

[DKS]

...this stuff is getting too easy:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=inolex+chemical&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.452734,77.695313&ie=UTF8&hq=inolex+chemical&hnear=&ll=39.920704,-75.146246&spn=0,359.998304&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=39.920704,-75.146246&panoid=BCgYx_2Foy4WIKJvrS_-AA&cbp=12,56.57,,0,5

Kinda spooky, isn't it? Between Bing Bird's Eye and Google Street View, modeling stuff is getting easier every day.

http://1-220.blogspot.com/2009/03/modeling-and-internet.html

[lock4244]

How about a plant that produces egg cartons? Inbound paper stuff in boxcars, outbound boxcars loaded with egg cartons. Got the idea from a shot on RP of a CN switch job in Brantford, ON., working this type of plant and may include it on my layout. It's not an everyday type of industry and existed in the 1980's. Get crackin' with an egg carton plant.

Crayola plant might work, too. Inbound covered hoppers of raw crayola. Had one in Lindsay, Ontario.

If you want to spoof, how about Phil's Nail Warehouse? A commercial on SCTV I remember as a kid, Phil is overstocked and has two boxcars of nails to blow out at incredible prices.

<--- Gotta Move those Nails          <--- Boxcars of Deals          <--- No Reasonable Offer Refused

[lock4244]

Or a wax plant? This one is in sub-urban Toronto, but it is pretty narrow and would look right a home downtown. Swtiched daily, lots of tankcars.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=international+wax,+agincourt,+ontario&sll=43.785076,-79.275112&sspn=0.002266,0.006174&ie=UTF8&hq=international+wax,&hnear=Agincourt,+Toronto,+ON,+Canada&ll=43.784759,-79.276228&spn=0.018125,0.033045&z=15&iwloc=A&cid=9973125176633870759

[up1950s]

No Baggage Girlfriends

Vinyl incoming . Gross count cartons outgoing ;D

[bbussey]

The Baltimore Sun Plant would receive 3 boxcars or so a day of clean newsprint:
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qjgbtr8mg3vx&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=7161969&encType=1

I see the tracks running down the street, but I don't see where the spur to the loading dock is.

[oakcreekco]

Only about five years ago did a beautiful "urban" line finally get ripped up in Saint Joseph MO.

It was the Rock Island line that actually travelled from the "yards" area of St Jo, through town, and then headed east.

I drove up and down it numerous times. Still had a lot of brick streets, with the switch stands that were mounted "in" the street in many places.

It was reall hard to tell what the industries were originally, but virtually all the buildings were brick, some odd shapes, and a few with the siding that entered the building.

A lot of action in its' day I'm sure, and I was really disappointed when the rails were taken out because I wanted to get some pics of this unique "main line" through and out of town.

It appeared that there were serveral oil/chemical type industries/distributors, with just about anything else you can imagine that shipped by rail in the old days. Paper, small manufacturers, implements, etc.

[sirenwerks]

It's Balwmer, how about a can company (not canning)? As in Baltimore Can Company? - http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qjg88x8mpcn9&scene=7162358&lvl=1&sty=b

There's a very modelable chemical industry that still receives rail shipments right on East Fort Ave. next to Latrobe Park - http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qjbbq38mh9qf&scene=31889457&lvl=2&sty=b

A Coca Cola bottling plant (at least two of those in the city, plus a Pepsi plant)? One right next door to the above mentioned chemical plant http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qjb9k68mh5b4&scene=31913633&lvl=1&sty=b and the other http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qjkvpr8mgz25&scene=7156895&lvl=2&sty=b

Want a cool scrap industry? Try Acme in the Orangeville area, which I am sure had rail service in it's heyday - http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qjgqq98mkx5x&scene=31892728&lvl=1&sty=b

And then there's this place across from Bayview, right on Eastern Ave. - http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qjdz658mmwsb&scene=31896237&lvl=1&sty=b

And my all time favorite, out in your neck of the woods, the "front" end of  the sprawling Solo Cup right on Painters Mill - http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qk1wvs8m1wxt&scene=7143204&lvl=1&sty=b

Want a warehouse? Just freelance something with a Baltimore name. Like Oles Envelope. Or Calvert Distillery.

[James Costello]

You need an excuse for some more 86' boxcars too right?

[Iain]

Ed, Resinol in the real world had moved away from Maryland by 1985, having done so after my great grandfather passed away in the mid-1950s.  As far as photographs, the one person I know of that would have had any was my father's aunt Nancy Dulaney, but she passed away back in June.

Another possibility, and one that was a fairly large operation in the 1920s, was the Fruit Puddine Co. as owned by my father's family until my great grandfather decided to retire and could not find a buyer.  I think that I can easily dig up a fair amount of information in the family archives.

(In case any of y'all are wondering, the high school in Towson was named after my family.)