Weyerhaeuser Paper Products

 Industry number 2 for my Freeport Industrial Center layout is Weyerhaeuser Paper Products.  This represents an industry that was actually located a couple of miles farther west on the line but it is one I have always been interested in.  Weyerhaeuser receives a lot of traffic, several carloads of paper, each week.  This is enough to justify switching this industry on almost every operating session.

Boxcars are spotted at the loading dock and the car order is not important.  This makes for a fairly easy job.  The types of cars are mostly 40ft to 60ft hi-cube boxcars.  Standard height 50ft cars can also be used.  The most challenging part of the job is that it is a leading point switch so a runaround is always required.

The loading dock is a neat feature of this industry and will accommodate 3 cars typically, though you can fit in 4 cars if they are all 40ft.  On the prototype, there is a roof over the dock and the car spots.  I really wanted to model this feature but there is just not enough room between the industry spur and the mainline to make it look right.  I might do the cover only over the dock.  Below you can see what the building looks like today.

The building is comprised of two Walthers Modern Concrete Warehouse Background Building kits.  This allowed me to build a building that is 33.5" long and about 2" deep.  The footprint of the industry will end up being about 42" wide when it's all done.  The dock is made from one set of Pikestuff Modular Loading Dock kit.  The dock is not yet attached to the building but will be once the site has been properly leveled.  I added a few roof details from the Walthers Roof Details kit.  This is a must as the background building kits have no roof details at all.  There are other similar industries in the Phoenix area and it seems to be common practice to store extra paper rolls outside.  These rolls are huge and I will add a few next to the building once I decide on a modeling method.

Southwest Grocery Distribution

 Just a quick update on the first industry for my layout - Southwest Grocery Distribution.  This is a large concrete warehouse with three car spots.  The entire model is about 42" long and is along the backdrop off the mainline (the mainline on my layout is actually visible staging).  The basic assembly is about 90% complete with the final details to be added after painting.

The first door (the largest) is for refers only.  The middle door can be either refers or general boxcar.  The last door is for boxcars only.  This door arrangement should make for some interesting switching and may require off-spotting cars from time to time.

The industry comfortably holds 3 50' - 60' cars with space between them.  

This started as the Modern Cold Storage Warehouse from Walthers and I unrolled it into a background building.  I had build up a floor and a roof from scraps and Evergreen styrene.  I am really happy with how this is going and will be moving on to the painting stage soon.