Industry by Industry: Home Depot and Boise

Home Depot and Boise are neck-in-neck industries in the Pompano industrial district. Mike M. kindly offered more great pictures of the industries.

Boise Cascade takes in lumber and building materials, north of 15th St. They are indeed a fairly new customer.

Meanwhile the Home Depot Dist. Center takes in cement, lumber, and other materials.

Usually CSX has been seen lugging centerbeams but in this day, not so much.

As with being chosen for my layout, I really would like to model one or both, but the way things are now, space can only permit one, and it'll probably be Home Depot.

Industry by Industry: Amerigas

Located in Pompano Beach, south of Racetrack Road, Amerigas is an oil company that takes in various grades of gas by tank.

Another kind contribution from Mike M., the industry "woke from the dead" and now receives cars regularly. This day he got 4 of them photographed.










There are three lead tracks.

Distant view. The turnout in the foreground appears to be in OK shape but the customer it leads to probably isn't so much of that.

Industry by Industry: Publix Deerfield Beach

Recipient of plastic pellets to make bottles, Publix is at SX 999.0.

The warehouse itself is hard to access, so I guess Mike M. found a spot on the west of the ROW to photo it. Case in point, you can see the covered hoppers stopped there.

Deerfield Beach is a distribution center for Publix Super Markets.

Industry by Industry: Sun Sentinel Deerfield Beach

Photo graciously provided by Mike M.


In our first installment to the Industry by Industry series, I have here Sun Sentinel, by the SX998.9. This is by the Deerfield Beach Tri-Rail station and the lead track is on the #2 Track platform. Chill at the remodeled South Florida Railway Museum's south platform and you could see the train (O717) switching the lead. The area is in demand of high-cube (often paper service) boxcars, though the ATWs do not really seem to be high-cube. As I noted in the map, I am willing to model the warehouse, though the switch will not cross a platform as I choose not to have Tri-Rail stations decorated due to space.

CSX Vs. Idiot

Someone tries to lazy it out crossing the tracks. His friends make it through before the power move on the Lehigh Spur (Homestead Sub / HS) comes but he has to wait. But how close he waits, is really unacceptable, ethically and legally.

Freight cars of the Miami Sub

This post is basically an organizer of the HO scale forms of all the cars that are to be involved with this layout.
Your Miami Sub layout can be formed with the following rolling stock:

Engines: (Insert CSX before each ;) )

• Athearn Genesis SD70MACs
• Atlas C40-8 and C40-8W
• Athearn Genesis SD60Is
• Important! Atlas GP39-2s
• Intermountain GEVOs
• Athearn RTR GP40-2s, GP38-2s

Freight Cars (rep. marks may and do vary)

• Athearn 60' boxcars
• Walthers 16k gal tanks
• Atlas 16k tanks
• Atlas 25k tanks
• Walthers, or Athearn 30k gal ethanol trains There is a possibility an ethanol unit train may become of the Transflo distribution.
•  Atlas pressureaide, centerflow, and plastics hoppers
• Walthers Plastics hoppers
• Athearn Pullman / FMC rib side covered hoppers
• Atlas Thrall 2743s
• Bowser open hoppers
• Walthers ortner hoppers (you would want to repaint some)
• Athearn and Atlas 50' boxcars

With a combo of one or the other, the wide variety of qualifications for a Miami Sub train can be well met. 

New Plan

The plan, effective 12/2010. This is the final plan! I will stick with realism.
 

O717 is the main switcher down these parts. Since Tri-Rail is not the focus, I opted against connecting the mainline because of the flyover which is impossible to model. O718, a nocturnal switcher, works Transflo.

I have several industries in the running.

• Transflo is CSX's ethanol, cement, plastics, and bulk transfer.
• The Team Track handles scrap gons and other commodities as needed. 
• The stub track is a storage track next to the Fuel area. The Fuel area is where the FTL switcher is tied down, as well as gets fueled.

We skip over to Pompano Beach, FL. The Mac Lead and Amerigas cannot be rendered in such a space.

• Grace handles chemicals and the "occasional boxcar" like my friend and fellow HO modeler Mike M. says is set out at neighboring Keeman Brick.

• Home Depot handles boxcars and centerbeam flats of lumber. It is not determined if for the sake of realism, I'll model the new Boise Cascade instead (Centerbeams and boxcars)

Deerfield Beach is a switching mecca and an overall fun place to check up on operations.

• CP Parker is only half of itself in the rendering because there isn't enough resource to afford making a 2-crossover. Besides, I am only designing it as a run-around point.
• Publix does not get food from CSX, unfortunately. ;) But it gets plastics for the containers of their food products.
• Sun-Sentinel is an active recipient of newsprint in 50'-60' high-cube newsprint boxcars. The density is almost enough so that additional cars need to be stored on the storage track across Hillsboro Blvd. Unfortunately, the Tri-Rail Station will be neglected in the model rendition.
• Rankin is a single crossover as is the real thing this time. O717 and occasionally O720 runs around.

Staging may be leveled below Pompano if circumstances permit.

Welcome

This will be the conduit for my CSX HO Scale Layout of the Miami Subdivision (MI)
Not much to say now, just feel free to look around once the site is fine tuned.