PRR/CR Middle Division Industry - What to Replace my Coal Mine With?

[sirenwerks]

How about an asbestos plant? Tres Pennsylvania and very much of the two eras you're modeling. Or something like the Congoleum plant that used to be in Lancaster?

[Dave V]

Thanks for all the cool suggestions!

I think I'm pretty sold on a metals industry.  DKS has a very cool idea.  Since Walthers doesn't make the Vulcan Manufacturing kit anymore, I need something that will work in the space as a Pennsy-era industry.

[wm3798]

For the PRR era, you could have a branch of the Monongahela Metal Foundry, maker of extra shiny metal ingots.  For the CR era, a distribution warehouse for Einbinder Fly Paper would be just the thing...

Or maybe the Great Lakes Paper Clip Company...

Fonstock P. Bodrie
Moline, Ill.

[Dave V]

Unfortunately, the Walthers Vulcan Manufacturing Co would be the best structure for this but has been unavailable for some time.

However, a good alternative is using the Walthers modulars as the N scale steel mill guru has done:

http://users.livejournal.com/_nonamenoslogan/65453.html

[wm3798]

Dave,
Is this the Vulcan building? 


I bought it off of ebay as a built up, so I don't know if that's it or not.  I've been thinking about re-doing that part of the paper mill with a more contemporary building.  Let me know if that fits what you're looking for.

Lee

[Dave V]

Lee,

I think your structure is the "Allied Rail Rebuilders."  That's another good basis!  "Vulcan Manufacturing" looks like this:

[Chris333]

TrainCat was working on a traveling crane like that...

[asciibaron]

would this fit your space?  don't use the roll-up door - bash it and have a dock on the side.

http://www.nscalesupply.com/wal/WAL-933-3264.htm

[NorfolkSouthern9708]

Good to see your switching it to the good old Lewistown. Our station had an open house for PRR/PC/CR retirees, I belive it was all them, but I could have gone back to the good ol days with em, and got you some industries.

[randgust]

What was the big honkin' mill up at Tyrone?  Paper mill?

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/6132784-lg.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/407740195_dff086fe74.jpg?v=0

I can understand your point though.  One of the things that's always floored me is the near complete absence of 'mining structures' like tipples today and in the CR era that straddle the track.  The cleaning is elsewhere, and the only rail facility is a truck dump ramp up to the car height, or piles and front-end-loaders.  I've been all over RJCP and other than up to Irvona, there's like nothing left.  And it's 'unit train in, unit train out', no individual cars.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

would this fit your space?  don't use the roll-up door - bash it and have a dock on the side.
http://www.nscalesupply.com/wal/WAL-933-3264.htm

I've been eying that building up pretty hardcore. Not sure what for, but for something. She's a looker.

[asciibaron]

I've been eying that building up pretty hardcore. Not sure what for, but for something. She's a looker.

i would use it for a steel door and window company.

[Dave V]

Steve, that just might be the ticket!

[rswinnerton]

In Huntingdon there is a VERY swappable set of industries! Owens Corning Fiberglass had a plant in H-town that had a siding with a forklift ramp for unloading fiberglass marbles. It also shared it with truck unloading, so there's a two-fer. And when you backdate, use JC Blair co. They received paper in boxcars to make writing tablets both buildings are still there. The JCB building is now an old folks home and OC Fiberglass is now called something else (but they still make fiberglass). Just a thought.

[randgust]

It's a little radical, but the 'same site different building' is really valid.  My fathers own sawmill has had...hmmmm....six significantly different sawmill buildings on the same site - dating back from a water-powered sawmill in 1847, two steam-boiler mills (first burned, second torn down in the Depression), then my fathers first and second mills, and now the 'Butler Building' no-pond modern mill on the site today.  Mills 2-5 shared the same brick boilerhouse.   Three of the mills burned, two were demolished.   So that is another alternative, same company name, same site, but a much more modern steel building doing the same thing in the Conrail era as opposed to PRR.

http://www.itlcorp.com/pages/endeavor.htm

This is pretty much the reverse view of this in the 1960's:
 (my fathers second mill)

http://gustafson.home.westpa.net/endeavor.jpg

 

As you can see here, there's a huge difference in building and site design.