I'm building a Model Railroadz route and I need some advice. First off, the route was originally a tourist railroad, but I decided to add some industries to it to represent a railroad that hauls freight and runs tourist trains. The setting is the problem: The Appalachian Mountains in the present day. The problem is that I'm trying to provide variety of industries served by the railroad and not just hauling coal. The railroad has invested in getting more customers so that they're not just relying on natural resources, which is coal and lumber. I've got industries served by coal hoppers, log cars, flatcars, tank cars, and boxcars. I'm trying to figure out what industries I could have that could use gondolas and closed-top hoppers. Here's a few examples of how I've set up the industries:
Logs from lumber camp -> logs to lumber mill -> lumber to furniture factory -> furniture to interchange with other railroad and/or freight depots and/or warehouses
Logs from lumber camp -> logs to lumber mill -> lumber to freight depot
Logs from lumber camp -> logs to lumber mill -> lumber to interchange with other railroad
Logs from lumber camp -> logs to lumber mill -> lumber to transload platform (aka team track)
Coal from coal mine -> coal to coaling tower
Coal from coal mine -> coal to interchange with other railroad
Boxcars and flatcars to/from freight depot and/or warehouses and/or transload platform (aka team track)
Tank cars to/from fuel distributor
Closed-top hoppers, boxcars, tank cars, and flatcars to/from transload platform (aka team track)
Any other ideas?
Logs from lumber camp -> logs to lumber mill -> lumber to furniture factory -> furniture to interchange with other railroad and/or freight depots and/or warehouses
Logs from lumber camp -> logs to lumber mill -> lumber to freight depot
Logs from lumber camp -> logs to lumber mill -> lumber to interchange with other railroad
Logs from lumber camp -> logs to lumber mill -> lumber to transload platform (aka team track)
Coal from coal mine -> coal to coaling tower
Coal from coal mine -> coal to interchange with other railroad
Boxcars and flatcars to/from freight depot and/or warehouses and/or transload platform (aka team track)
Tank cars to/from fuel distributor
Closed-top hoppers, boxcars, tank cars, and flatcars to/from transload platform (aka team track)
Any other ideas?
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