[RITSlist] (Fwd) [Ops-Ind] Re: Appliance Industry Information Needed

[jaley]

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From: "dmamfahr" <mamfahr at comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:05:13 -0000
Subject: [Ops-Ind] Re: Appliance Industry Information Needed
Reply-To: Ry-ops-industrialSIG at yahoogroups.com

> On my Iowa themed layout I want to include a nice, massive
industrial complex so I figured an appliance manufacturer.

Steve,

There were several appliance manufacturers active in Iowa in the
1970s.  From what I know of them however, the one you'd want to focus
on is Maytag in Newton.  They were served by the RI at that time, had
many active buildings, lots of spur tracks for various products, a
TOFC ramp & even a small yard in town to support them along with an
assigned switch job based there.

Their inbound products (by rail) around that time were (off the top
of my head; I can look these up to be sure if you'd like...):
 - coiled steel (most from around S. Chic / NW Indiana) in EJE, IHB,
C&O/B&O, CR cars, etc.
 - clay (don't remember where from, but SE US somewhere) in cov.
hoppers, used to make the ceramic coating on the inside of the
washing machine drums.
 - some sort of chemical now and then, a solvent(?) or acid?
 - other odds & ends, such as tank cars with the chemicals used to
mix paint, etc.

Outbound, they shipped some scrap metal in gons, but their main
outbound product was the appliances.  Prior to about 1975, quite a
bit was shipped out by boxcar.  In the mid/later 70s & after, TOFC
was used.  They had a ramp right downtown next to the yard that had
to be switched frequently, as they loaded/unloaded far more trailers
than could be supported by the short ramp tracks (roughly 15-30
flats/day), requiring lots of shuffling to make things work.  Recall
also that older TOFC operation required switching to arrange flats
with "east" and "west"-facing hitches so they could be spotted to
their respective ramps - a pain for the prototype but something that
adds interest to a model RR operation.  Then, once loaded, the
trailers/flats were billed to different places so they had to be
sorted & blocked by connection for the trains to pick up, such
as "Chicago", Council Bluffs-BN, Council Bluffs-UP - more switching
fun  ;-)

As far as moving traffic in/out of town, on the RI and later on the
C&NW, IRRC & IAIS (all 3 post RI shutdown), "road jobs" would move
cars into and out of town and the switch crew would do all
spotting/pulling of cars from the plants/ramp.

That should get you started.  If you'd like to proceed with this,
just let me know and I'll dig out some additional info if you'd
like.

Take care,

Mark



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