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CATEGORY: Trinity Collins Galleries: Prototype Gallery | Peavine Gallery | Model Gallery SubCategories:      Category Description:  Trinity Industries had a freight car manufacturing facility in Mt. Oreb until around 2005. Last I knew, they were making aluminum hoppers for one of the western railroads. In real life, Trinity closed the plant down. When they did, they put one of my good friends out of work. Un-Acceptable! So in the backstory of the Western Ohio, Trinity announce plans to close the plant. Local business man Rob Collins stepped in and worked out a deal to keep the plant running under a subsidiary named Trinity Collins. To this day, they still make aluminum hoppers. Now because freight car manufacturing is a bit of a unique industry in that you don't an empty car arrive and then go out loaded. You only have a completed car that goes out. The new cars will be staged inside the building until a waybill comes along to deliver them. They will be routed west and when their journey is complete, placed back inside the building until the next waybill comes along.   Click on image to view larger size   Photo ID: 2900

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