Monday, April 4, 2011

Tropicana

A model-genic place that definitely gets honorable mention is Tropicana in Bradenton, FL. Locals O822, O708, and O807 I believe serve there. This is home to the famed juice train which runs north 5 days a week to Kearny, NJ.

Not only is this customer producing bulk pelletloads of juice, it takes in materials to make everything; I can definitely locate numerous plastics hoppers and even two boxcars in one warehouse. (Wonder if the boxcars carry paper for cartons)

A dense customer, probably it would even have to be compressed to make an effective and fit layout.

Obviously, it's way out of my league as I am emphasizing on the Fort Lauderdale area, but it would be amazing to see someone do a layout of this monster industry.


Industry aerial screencapped from Google Earth for purposes of reference.