My Industries (all 10 of them)

I suppose I could add more, but this is what fits comfortably, and I didn't want a layout so crammed that it didn't have a realistic feel. Two team tracks will add to the freight destinations, and I could add a little freight house or fuel supplier near the interchange yard.

Notably absent from this CTC layout is a notable traffic generator, the DuPont Chemical plant in Hixson. In real life it attaches to the CTC right at the junction with NS. It was just too big to cram in. I suppose I could add it somehow as an "off-layout" industry; we'll give that some thought. Airco Gases is also right there. I should really try to work in one of these two ...



So here's the confirmed stuff. The rail traffic percentages are pretty much a product of my imagination, based on some basic logic and research:

GEO Specialty Chemicals
Intake:
• 40% Sulfuric acid in tankers
• 60% coal ash in 3-bay hoppers
Output:
• empty tankers
• empty hoppers

Ergon Terminaling
Intake:
• 70% empty tankers
• 15% empty gondolas
• 15% empty hoppers
Output:
• chemicals, asphalt and fuel in tankers
• gravel, sand in hoppers and gondolas

Signal Mountain Cement
Intake:
• 60% empty 2-bay hoppers
• 20% empty boxcars
• 10% 2-bay hoppers of fly ash
• 10% hoppers of coal
Output:
• ready-mix concrete in hoppers
• bagged ready-mix concrete in box cars
• empty 2-bay hoppers
• empty coal hoppers

Commercial Metals Co.
Intake:
• 100% gondolas of scrap
Output:
• empty gondolas

Colco Commercial Furniture Co.
Intake:
• 60% 3-bay hoppers of plastic pellets
• 15% coil cars of rolled steel
• 20% empty boxcars
• 5% empty gondolas
Output:
• empty hoppers
• empty coil cars
• boxcars of furniture
• occasional gondola of scrap

Chattanooga Brick and Tile Co.
Intake:
• 100% flatcars of brick, pipe and block
Output:
• empty flatcars


Little Katie Baking Inc.
Intake:
• 40% 2-bay hoppers of flour
• 30% tankers of corn syrup and oil
• 10% boxcars of other
• 10% reefers of fruit
Output:
• empty 2-bay hoppers
• empty tankers
• empty boxcars
• empty reefers

Rock-Tenn Co.
Intake:
• 100% empty boxcars
Output:
• boxcars of collected paper fiber for recycling

Dixie Flour Co.
Intake:
• 80% 3-bay hoppers of grain
• 10% empty box cars
• 10% empty 2-bay hoppers
Output:
• empty 3-bay hoppers
• occasional box car of bagged flour
• occasional 2-bay hopper of flour

A few of these haven't been discussed yet: Little Katie Baking is a tribute to my eponymous daughter (now 16 and a musician along with being a devout consumer of snacks). Colco Furniture is a tribute to my son Colin, who needed his own industry. Why is it office furniture? Can't tell ya. I wanted to drag around coil cars and plastic pellet hoppers.

Chattanooga Brick & Tile is a business I used to drive by every day going to and from work. It's right along Dayton Boulevard in Red Bank and an easy industry to model.

Dixie Flour is fictional, and based on a big flour mill here in Roanoke, Va. I figured it would be nice to have an industry that I could make some actual field trips to model. Chattanooga's a little too long a drive.

GEO Specialty Chemicals makes aluminum sulfate for use in the Moccasin Bend Water Treatment Plant. Its reactor uses sulfuric acid and fly ash (coal ash), and the facility is surrounded by a few settling ponds.