Urban sidings and industries

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Veristek

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Hey all,

I was wondering if any of you guys had any suggestions for several urban industries for loading and offloading. I'm working on industry sidings in a semi-fictional urban area. Newspaper printing factory, Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot, Best Buy, supermarkets, etc.

What I'm looking for is industry buildings that can load / offload food, lumber, boxes of goods (DVD's, TV's, computers, appliances, etc) and some other stuff like oil / gas, paper, furniture, etc. Right now, I can't seem to find anything that does that within an urban setting that can accomodate like 10 freight cars or so.

For example, one long siding I have runs behind a mall area where Home Depot, a supermarket, and Best Buy are located. The siding is supposed to offload cargo to these stores. The cargo should be some containers, lumber, general goods, oil / gas, and furniture.

Another example is a newspaper building with a short siding where blank rolls of paper (for the next day's printing) are offloaded, then printed newspapers are picked up to deliver to distribution centers.

Any help or recommendations?
 
G'day Veristek. Have you tried out the built-in ('06) Multiple Industry New? This allows you to choose what products you want to produce/consume, as well as allowing you to choose processing times for each commodity.
Alternatively you could try the Lars/Protolars industries. There should be something there to help you.

Hope this helps,

Matt.
 
In my part of the country, I haven't seen any Wal-Marts, Lowes, Best Buys or grocery stores that receive their goods by rail. That doesn't mean that they couldn't and don't somewhere in the Country. My first ideas would be:

1. Building material wholesalers that deal in bulk receipts and sales (not local retailers)
2. Grocery chain regional warehouses
3. Printing companies (receipt of paper goods and ink)
4. Industries that produce plastic goods. They need plastic pellets in bulk.
5. Automotive manufacturing
6. Manufacturers of wiring and piping
7. Automotive reclamation centers (scrapyards)
8. Farmer Co-ops

I could probably think of a few more, but these were just off the top of my head.

Mike
 
If you have Google Earth, type in "Braintree Station, MA" and then the satellite view should take you there. The station is right next to a huge shopping plaza with the large retail stores. There are several siding tracks running alongside the tracks that run through the station, and these siding tracks run past the backs of these stores. I've been on that route in person myself occasionally and I always see freight cars on these siding tracks, full of lumber, tanker cars, general goods, etc.

I've checked the Multiple Industries. I'm not sure how to use it to add new loads, like milk or paper or what have you. I'm also not sure how to integrate the "ugly" slab alongside the track that sucks out the loads. Where's a loading dock version where you can actually see the cargo be stored? The loading dock looks more realistic and would go perfectly with just about any industry building or factory or whatever.

I'm doing all this in TRS 2009 by the way.
 
There's a Best Buy and a Lowes for Trainz?

Sorry, I am in the office and don't have the kuid of the loading dock, but I think I know exactly which one you are talking about. It's built into one of the TS2010 tutorials, I think.
 
industry ideas for urban ideas

I own trainz 2004 and I would love to see an autorack facity to unload new automobiles for car dealers or perhaps a propane dealer. How about a cold storage facilty which has reefer cars frequent it's siding. maybe a scrap yard that ships out gondals full of scrapmetal destined for smelters.:cool:
 
another industry

How about a distrubtion center which recieves piggybach trailers and unloads good to a warehouse to awaist transfer to another truck or piggy back train
 
GS41995 said:
I own trainz 2004 and I would love to see an autorack facity to unload new automobiles for car dealers or perhaps a propane dealer. How about a cold storage facilty which has reefer cars frequent it's siding. maybe a scrap yard that ships out gondals full of scrapmetal destined for smelters.:cool:
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you need some lars stuff , go to trainproroutes.com and they will have a few
indies that you are looking for
 
Veristek said:
If you have Google Earth, type in "Braintree Station, MA" and then the satellite view should take you there. The station is right next to a huge shopping plaza with the large retail stores. There are several siding tracks running alongside the tracks that run through the station, and these siding tracks run past the backs of these stores. I've been on that route in person myself occasionally and I always see freight cars on these siding tracks, full of lumber, tanker cars, general goods, etc.

I've checked the Multiple Industries. I'm not sure how to use it to add new loads, like milk or paper or what have you. I'm also not sure how to integrate the "ugly" slab alongside the track that sucks out the loads. Where's a loading dock version where you can actually see the cargo be stored? The loading dock looks more realistic and would go perfectly with just about any industry building or factory or whatever.

I'm doing all this in TRS 2009 by the way.
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Hey, try checking the dependencies of <kuid:447264:1035>. This is the tutorial industry town to which I referred earlier. There are a lot of assets in this list lacking good descriptions, but perhaps Bulk-Granular/Liquids Unloading Facility,<kuid2:124017:10054:1> is what you are looking for.
 
Jayturf said:
everyone should forget the stupid industies. Check out CMTM. It's more prototypical and IMO way more enjoyable. So what if you can't see what kind of goods are in those boxcars?

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=45617&highlight=cmtm
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I agree with you. Who cares about the actual interactive industries. The only ones I use on my route are passenger stations and a power plants.

Veristek - There are some generic warehouse buildings available as well as generic industrial buildings available on the DLS. They range from very large to small steel-sided buildings like you'd find in an industrial park. Also look at something like Building Silo (spelled something like this), which is great for plastics companies that would require silo storage for their plastic pellets.

John
 
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