Best of Industries
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Styrene structural shapes/Assembling craneways, roof supports, dust collectors, and scrap bins
Add a busy industry that doesn’t take up a lot of space
Harold W. Russell supplies illustrations for this rail-served agricultural business
From grain silos to covered hoppers, this industry offers a variety of possibilities
Boxcars and tank cars made deliveries to this small-town industry
This industry is a great traffic generator for your model railroad
Kitbashing is the secret to modeling the paper industry in N scale
At 8 x 18 feet, this sprawling plant complex is larger than many layouts
A layout-sized industry for keeping those reefers rolling
A retail fuel dealership makes an eye-catching customer for your railroad
Packing plants, branch houses, stock yards, and rail traffic/ Sorting out refrigerated car types and time-sensitive operations
For more than a century, railroads linked ranches to markets
A major industry that occupies just three square feet on an N scale layout
A modern high-traffic industry for a narrow shelf space on your layout
How the full-size plants work and how to add them to your layout
Kitbashing, scratchbuilding, wood, and plastic all came together on this model
Unusual construction highlights this small-town industry
How railroads handled less-than-carload freight shipments
This trackside building is an instant source of traffic
A railroad employee provided information to operate the elevator like the prototype
Backdating the Wm. K. Walthers HO steel mill kits to the 1950s
Thoughts on modeling a large HO scale industry in a 12-foot space
This large scale layout packs a detailed scene into a 2 x 4-foot space
This rail-served structure in New York State has a century of history
The Clay Spur plant processed and shipped bentonite clay
Filling an empty spot with an industry served by a track off the turntable
Specialized equipment adds interest to the transfer of materials between trains and trucks
Parts from a Wm. K. Walthers kit formed the basis of this project
Also in this issue:
PUT YOUR RAILROAD TO WORK, pg. 3
Introduction by Carl Swanson
