Serving The Line

With basic research nearly complete for almost all of the industries on the line, I'm turning my focus to at least one of the modeling aspects of this project: Determining the necessary car fleet to support operations.

This is especially important for me to work out since I'm still heavily considering a change in modeling scales from HO to O (P:48, actually).  Regardless of scale choice, I'll still need the fruits of this thought exercise; if a switch does happen, this will help scope the equipment changeover.

We'll start with the theoretical discussion of each industry, the commodities they handled, and the typical car types that would've been used to service them.  I'll update the table with additional information as I locate suitable products to represent the prototype.

Spot Code	Industry Name	Commodities	Freight Car Types	Models
303	Open	n/a
305	Garfield Team Track	Various	Various
306	Paper Supply Company	Paper	Boxcars
308	Runaround Track	n/a
309	Open	n/a
311	C. E. Schutte Lumber Company	Lumber Building Materials	Boxcars Flatcars
315	Carthage Marble Corporation	Cut Stone	Flatcars Gondolas
319	W. C. Tingle Company	Flooring	Boxcars
326	Pacific Mutual Door Company	Lumber Windows Doors	Boxcars
327	Battenfield Grease & Oil Company	Petroleum Products	Tank Cars
335	Safeway Bakery	Flour	Covered Hoppers (Airslide)
336	Motor Parts Distributors Incorporated	Auto Parts	Boxcars
340	Sherwood Chemical Company	Chemicals	Tank Cars
340A	Union Carbide	No research yet
340B	American Mineral Spirits Company	Chemicals	Tank Cars
341	Southwestern Bell Telephone Company	Bulk Wire Telephone Poles Supplies	Boxcars Flatcars
342	Turner Uni-Drive Company	Gearbox Castings Machined Parts	Boxcars
345	U. S. Engineering	Steel Pipe	Flat Cars Covered Gondolas
348	Swenson Construction Company	Construction Materials	Boxcars Flat Cars
353	Styro Fabricators Incorporated	Polyisocyanurate	Boxcars (Drums)
354	Fred Wolferman Incorporated	Dry Goods Perishables	Insulated Boxcars Refrigerated Boxcars

In the meantime, I'll keep track of a some potential candidate models below:
PFE Reefer (yellow) [Weaver]

Tank Car (Sunoco/Undec) [Weaver]
Insulated Boxcars (GT, L&N, SF) [Atlas]
Standard 50' Boxcars [Atlas]
Modernized 40' Boxcar [Atlas]
Covered Hopper [Atlas]
Flat Car [Atlas]
57' Mechanical Reefer [Lionel]
3 Bay Hopper [Lionel] (MoW service only, no online industry for an open hopper)
70ton Airslide [Atlas]
60' HiCube Boxcar [Atlas]
50' Plug Door Box [Atlas]
60' Auto Parts Box [Atlas]