And now the plan.... Not to scale!
Start out at A Yard in Vernon which will function as a real yard and visible staging. Small engine facility. ~17' long.
Small shelf in front of the windows (will be removable if needed - I don't want to block windows), then a small section behind the fridge - there will be a siding for a cold storage warehouse there.
Cross the LA River on a plate girder bridge which will be a lift out section in front of the back door. Enter a ~10' x 18" shelf to represent an industrial area along the LA River in Vernon. Packaging Corp. of America box plant, big customer. Other industries modeled using visible staging. Cross Atlantic Blvd, then another small shelf in front of the other set of windows.
We curve along the next wall (~21') as we enter the city of Commerce, where the line crosses the 710 freeway on a bridge, then the Slauson Ave grade crossing. First industry is Northern Produce (distributor, occasional reefers), then enter D Yard - small yard that mainly served to store cars for local industries, the biggest is Emery Chemicals which I am not modeling but the yard will represent that industry (along with others like C&H Sugar - local distribution from Crockett). Some transloading also occurs at D Yard, like tank cars of argon. Along the yard against the wall are the Newark Pacific and LA Paperboard plants. Then we cross Eastern Ave. heading east... along one side is a long warehouse (will be 4-5' modeled) and one tenant is Progressive Produce, mostly potato's in reefers. The other side, not sure yet (there's a few industries I am still researching - finding out what was around in 1985 is not that easy!) Then we curve again...
Next section (~10'), along one side is the Vons bakery (here's where I really proto-freelance - the actual Vons bakery was in a different location but I needed a place to spot Airslides. (Vons is a southern California grocery store chain who is now owned by Safeway. The Commerce bakery was the central bakery for all the stores.) On the other side is General Felt which recycles felt to make carpet products. Then a small peninsula for Hills Pet Nutrition (pet food plant), we start another curve with the leads going into Great Western Malting (barley in, malt out). Cross Malt Ave, with a diamond in the street crossing with a spur going into Japan Pulp & Paper (scrap paper for transloading into containers going to Japan). One last curve to serve Norton & Son (paint mfg, occasional car) and the US Borax detergent plant ("20 Mule Team" brand - before they sold it to Dial Corp.)
While it looks big, I guess its more long than big. No more than 24" wide (15-18" in places), will be mostly 1x4 frame construction with 2" foam on top, very similar to Free-mo construction. Easy peasy
Not to scale!
Start out at A Yard in Vernon which will function as a real yard and visible staging. Small engine facility. ~17' long.
Small shelf in front of the windows (will be removable if needed - I don't want to block windows), then a small section behind the fridge - there will be a siding for a cold storage warehouse there.
Cross the LA River on a plate girder bridge which will be a lift out section in front of the back door. Enter a ~10' x 18" shelf to represent an industrial area along the LA River in Vernon. Packaging Corp. of America box plant, big customer. Other industries modeled using visible staging. Cross Atlantic Blvd, then another small shelf in front of the other set of windows.
We curve along the next wall (~21') as we enter the city of Commerce, where the line crosses the 710 freeway on a bridge, then the Slauson Ave grade crossing. First industry is Northern Produce (distributor, occasional reefers), then enter D Yard - small yard that mainly served to store cars for local industries, the biggest is Emery Chemicals which I am not modeling but the yard will represent that industry (along with others like C&H Sugar - local distribution from Crockett). Some transloading also occurs at D Yard, like tank cars of argon. Along the yard against the wall are the Newark Pacific and LA Paperboard plants. Then we cross Eastern Ave. heading east... along one side is a long warehouse (will be 4-5' modeled) and one tenant is Progressive Produce, mostly potato's in reefers. The other side, not sure yet (there's a few industries I am still researching - finding out what was around in 1985 is not that easy!) Then we curve again...
Next section (~10'), along one side is the Vons bakery (here's where I really proto-freelance - the actual Vons bakery was in a different location but I needed a place to spot Airslides. (Vons is a southern California grocery store chain who is now owned by Safeway. The Commerce bakery was the central bakery for all the stores.) On the other side is General Felt which recycles felt to make carpet products. Then a small peninsula for Hills Pet Nutrition (pet food plant), we start another curve with the leads going into Great Western Malting (barley in, malt out). Cross Malt Ave, with a diamond in the street crossing with a spur going into Japan Pulp & Paper (scrap paper for transloading into containers going to Japan). One last curve to serve Norton & Son (paint mfg, occasional car) and the US Borax detergent plant ("20 Mule Team" brand - before they sold it to Dial Corp.)
While it looks big, I guess its more long than big. No more than 24" wide (15-18" in places), will be mostly 1x4 frame construction with 2" foam on top, very similar to Free-mo construction. Easy peasy.
