Name game

[Bob Bufkin]

Scrooge and Marley Warehouse (you can tell what movie I just watched).

[Iain]

What in the hell is Puddine?

Fruit Puddine, based out of Baltimore, made pudding.  They closed when my great-grandfather wanted to retire and couldn't find a buyer for the business.

[PAL_Houston]

Nice model.  Looks like a cannery to me. 

Since you model Erie, I assume somewhere in Pennsylvania, that probably means raspberry, cherry,   and blueberry jams & jellies.  Busy season is mid-summer until November.  You receive jars and lids, and sacked sugar.  You ship bulk loads and do a pretty good business because you market it as special a "Pennsylvania Dutch"  recipe.  Maybe you process mushrooms during the winter, on contract to a large distributor, like Del Monte.

[Bob Bufkin]

Why not also process pickles.  Gives you an excuse to get one of those weird looking vinegar cars.

[Kisatchie]

Why not also process pickles.

Hmm... and bananas? And
the other ingredients
for a banana daiquiri...?

[up1950s]

This is a small building to manufacturer tools or dies and their machines and raw materials , finished products , packaging department , and office IMO .

Small railroad office headquarters , payroll transfer to payroll car . Fancy railcar for the big wig off on a siding  .

[huntcast]

Keystone Industrial Supply Co.

[bbussey]

I like the fruit cannery idea also, as it allows for a larger variety of car types to be delivered - reefers and RBL boxcars with fresh fruit, XM boxcars with tin cans and crates, covered hoppers with sugar, and XP boxcars for finished goods.  With a tool & die shop, you're limited to XM boxcars, flatcars and gondolas.

[Catt]

ABC Manufacturing Co.

[LV LOU]

Why not also process pickles.  Gives you an excuse to get one of those weird looking vinegar cars.

Ok,now,I just GOTTA ask..Considering the apparent popularity of pickles on model railroads,pickle factories,pickle cars,pickle vats,pickle pussed railroad engineers,ETC,has anyone here ever actually SEEN any of these aforementioned facilities in real life? and do they,in fact,actually look like our models?[Well,YOUR models,I refuse to be drawn into the "pickle scam".. ] Most pickle factories I see on model railroads look like places where they should be making fertilizer,not food..

[x600]

I'm sorry, but I have to vote for Beecher Tool and Die.
It didn't hit me at first, but when it did I quite literally LMFAO.
I have a small building on my POFF that always needed a name and after
I get over the sheer silliness of it, I think I can tell people at shows the name with a straight face. Maybe.
When we list the name of the industry for car card ops and it gets posted on the car card as a destination, I may lose it.
Not being one for this type of MRR humor, I have to allow my inner 12 yr old to rule for a little bit.
Gotta go get some spit balls ready for work tomorrow.
What was the question?

Greg O.

[randgust]

That's pretty funny now that I get it... yeah!

But before we go all highbrow here (and I admit that all the pun business names are long gone on my layout, except for the real 'Peace Surplus' in Flagstaff) remember that the prototype did it as well.  Really?  Well consider the station names across the Santa Fe in the Mojave Sub west of Needles...   KLONDIKE, FROST and SIBERIA.   For real.   I had at least a passing thought of research to determine if there was ever a Klondike Bar.

And it's borderline when you get into stuff like DOTSERO and OSTEROD on the Rio Grande. 

Local favorite for an odd town name that leaked into a business name?   How about Torpedo, PA?  NYC DAV&P branch, named for a near-catastrophic explosive grade crossing accident between a buggy full of nitroglycerine (well fracking 'torpedos') and a train in the 1800's?   The major business in the town became.... "Torpedo Wire & Strip".... leading to puzzled and bemused reaction for the better part of a century.   See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo,_Pennsylvania     And now....like everything else, it's been taken over and sold, with nary a clue as to how THIS ever happened:  http://www.torpedowire.com/index.html

And Chris, you're a good Ohioan and I'm a good Pennsylvania.  Here locally, we had a "Warren Parts Company"   I've always wondered if there was a business in Ohio called "Warren Piece Corp.", L. J. Tolstoy, Prop.

[chicken45]

The Rusty Trombone Musical Instrument Restorations.
Giant Organ and Piano Co.
Cleveland Steam Fittings.
Morningwood Pole and Shaft.

 

Being a trombonist, I always marveled at how accurate the term "rusty trombone" actually was.
It is a lot like playing a trombone, yet, not like it at all.

Ever hear of the Alaskan Pipeline? 

Josh Surkosky

[lock4244]

Ok,now,I just GOTTA ask..Considering the apparent popularity of pickles on model railroads,pickle factories,pickle cars,pickle vats,pickle pussed railroad engineers,ETC,has anyone here ever actually SEEN any of these aforementioned facilities in real life? and do they,in fact,actually look like our models?[Well,YOUR models,I refuse to be drawn into the "pickle scam".. ] Most pickle factories I see on model railroads look like places where they should be making fertilizer,not food..

Bicks Pickles used to have a facility here in Scarborough (Toronto) that had a number of those large round wooden vats on the property. It lasted until maybe 10 years ago, so at the least, that part is prototypical.

Never understood the pickle fascination by modelers... always assumed it was a disease that largely affected HO'ers.

[parkrrrr]

Sechler's Pickles in St. Joe, Indiana is still in operation with dozens of large wooden vats and a fairly nondescript-looking one-story factory building. (See Street View for a better look at the building.) No rail service, though, despite being only a little over a mile from the CSX Garrett sub.