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Peavine Layout: About | Track Plan | Guiding Principles | Engine Roster | Industries   WESTERN OHIO ONLINE INDUSTRIES The Peavine features a wide variety of industries. Most are based on actual industries, either current or from the lines history. The list of industries in this first table are the industries modeled on the layout and are serviced by one of the trains during a normal operating session.   INDUSTRY NAME LOCATION IND TYPE FREQUENCY PRIMARY CAR - LOAD Buckeye Mills Hillsboro Freelanced High CH - Grain BX - Cereal Buckeye Mills is the largest, busiest industry on the Peavine Division. This freelanced industry makes cereals, such as "Buckaroos", "Buck Nuts", "Buckeye Flakes" and "Brutus Bran". Covered Hoppers of Grain are delivered daily, resulting in a steady stream of box cars loaded with your morning favorites. Clermont Farm Bureau Grain Elevator Batavia Freelanced Medium CH - Grain The Clermont Farm Bureau Grain Elevator could have been a prototype industry. Jeff Wood posted posted a document (Click Here) to facebook showing plans for a siding. I decided (no historical evidence) was for a grain elevator. That was enough for me to include it where I planned to have a lot of grain traffic. Clermont Steel Afton Prototype Low GN - Roller Coaster Clermont Steel is one of the industries that makes the Peavine fun to model. The make roller coasters. Now in real life, they ship these out on trucks. I haven't seen a car spotted at Clermont Steel in decades. But with a small amount of artisic license, and a little scratch building, you'll see cars loaded with roller coaster sections. Click Here For Prototype Images Cincinnati Chemical Batavia Prototype Low TC - Chemicals Cincinnati Chemical is located between the mainline and Main Street in Batavia. The siding is still in place today, but as long as I can remember (back to the 80s) I've never seen a car spotted there. The modeled industry will have more action than the real thing, seeing an occassional tank car outside the building. Click Here For Prototype Images Ford Afton Prototype High BX - Automotive Parts In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Ford opened a transmission plant in Afton Ohio. The plant had rail access to the Peavine and was one of the ancor industries for decades. By the 2000s, the plant had been sold to ZF Group, who operated the plant until it closed around 2005. At the time, that looked like a death nail for the Peavine. Huhtamaki moved into the facility and restored rail service in the 2010s. Huhtamaki is in this location today. But because of the ties I wanted the Western Ohio to have to the auto industry, I've been a new history for the plant and it survives today as part of Ford Motor Company. Click Here For Prototype Images Georgia Pacific Afton Prototype Low FCB - Lumber In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Ford opened a transmission plant in Afton Ohio. The plant had rail access to the Peavine and was one of the ancor industries for decades. By the 2000s, the plant had been sold to ZF Group, who operated the plant until it closed around 2005. At the time, that looked like a death nail for the Peavine. Huhtamaki moved into the facility and restored rail service in the 2010s. Huhtamaki is in this location today. But because of the ties I wanted the Western Ohio to have to the auto industry, I've been a new history for the plant and it survives today as part of Ford Motor Company. Click Here For Prototype Images Heekan Can Anchor Prototype Medium BX - Aluminum Cans Heekan Can is the original name of the industry on the north side of the tracks at Anchor. More recently, it has been called B-Way. I've chosen to use the original name simply because I like it better. The tracks into Heekan Can still exist, and inside the facility split into a couple different tracks. To the best of my knowledges, the facility is not rail served anymore. In the early days of the Cincinanti East Terminal, the tracks were used for storage, and were actually home to a couple of passenger cars. Click Here For Prototype Images Hillsboro Grain Hillsboro Freelanced Medium CH - Grain Hillsboro Grain is listed as a freelanced industry. But it may very well have a prototype that I am not aware of. It also represent the grain elevator that use to be rail served at Mowrystown. The grain elevator in Hillsboro generates much less traffic than Buckeye Mills, but generates enough in the fall to justify continued service. Huhtamaki Afton Prototype High BX - Paper Dinerware Huhtamaki is probably the most important industry in the recent history of the Peavine. When it took over the Ford transmission plant, it gave the Peavine reliable business to keep the line alive. When Purina opens, it may not be the largest customer anymore, but Purina likely would never have come had it not been for the the success of Huhtamaki. Because of my decision to keep Ford in its original home, I owed Huhtamaki a new place. For the Peavine Division layout, that home is in the Afton Industrial Park, along with Purina. Purist may scoff at this version of history, but it lets me have the best of all worlds. Click Here For Prototype Images Kibler Lumber Mt. Orebsburg Prototype Low FCB - Lumber Kibler is a real industry just east of Mt. Oreb and would receive an occasional load of lumber. For the layout, I moved Kibler into Mt. Oreb, sharing the siding with the Landmark Grain Elevator. Click Here For Prototype Images Landmark Grain Mt Oreb Mt Orebsburg Freelanced Medium CH - Grain Landmark Grain is one of four elevators added to the layout that didn't really exist. The Landmark name is one I remember from my youth, but the only recent sign of the old Landmark logo I was familiar with was on a storefront in Bethel OH. Ironically, in 2022, that sign went away, presumably damaged in a storm. The Landmark Grain elevator will be one building that represent two industries. When serviced from the west, it will be Landmark Grain Mt. Oreb. Landmark Grain Williamsburg Mt Orebsburg Freelanced Medium CH - Grain Landmark Grain is one of four elevators added to the layout that didn't really exist. The Landmark name is one I remember from my youth, but the only recent sign of the old Landmark logo I was familiar with was on a storefront in Bethel OH. Ironically, in 2022, that sign went away, presumably damaged in a storm. The Landmark Grain elevator will be one building that represent two industries. When serviced from the west, it will be Landmark Grain Williamsburg. Lorenzo Piano Mt Orebsburg Friendustry Low BX - Pianos Lorenzo Piano is a friendustry dedicated to a close friend who is a very good piano player. It is also the current occupant of what was formally Williamsburg Box and Partition. When modeled, this will hopefully be one of the more iconic scenes on the layout, with the walkway connecting the two building crossing over top of Foundry Street. While the industry itself is not real, the building is very real. Click Here For Prototype Images Miss Terri Meats Anchor Friendustry Low RF - Meat Products Miss Terri Meats is a play on words that is also named for a friend of mine. Having worked in the meat packing industry and for a company that makes hot dogs, the term mistery meat is a common punch line. So, I just named a company with the same punch line. Miss Terri Meats not only gets its own deliveries, but this is one of the few destinations that takes outbound products from an online industry. Miss Terri Meats gets some of their trimmings from Morrell Meats. Morrell Meats Fiarfax Freelanced Medium RF - Meat Products Morrell Meats is a double tribute industry. It is a nod to the role meat packing played in Cincinnati's industrial history. It is also because I spent thirteen years working for John Morrell and Co. The building is loosely based on the John Morrell plant in Sioux Falls, SD, with invluences from the Sioux City, IA plant ninety miles south. This is probably my favortie industry on the layout, simply because it is the only one on the layout to represent a business process. Model Railroader did a series a few years back on modeling the meat packing industry. It is incredibly diverse, and you could build an entire model railroad on this one industry. Purina Afton Prototype High CH - Grain Purina will be the new kid on the block. Set to open in a couple years, it is expected to be the largest customer on the Peavine. The complex is brand new, easily visible from State Route 32. It is yet to be know just how much business this large complex will generate. Click Here For Prototype Images Sardinia Team Track Sardinia Prototype Low Miscellaneous The team track at Sardinia comes off the west leg of the wye and runs behind where the depot use to be. I assume this track has always been there, but I didn't truly become aware of it until the Cincinnati Eastern started using it. The team track has been used in the last couple years to load Jersey barriers (those temporary concrete highway walls used in construction areas) to flat cars. More interestingly, to unlead heavy duty electrical equipment being used on solar farms in southern Ohio. Click Here For Prototype Images SB Craig Grain Elevator Sardinia Prototype Medium CH - Grain The SB Craig Grain Elevator is the only grain facility on the layout that is based on a prototype. The grain elevator was in the town of Sardinia just west of the depot. It has since been removed. Senco Anchor Prototype Medium BX - Industrial Fasteners Senco is a real industry on the Peavine at Anchor. Senco is located on the south side of the line, just each of Broadwell Road. Senco has a siding that is entirely overgrown and has not been used in years. The siding runs inside the building for inside loading and unloading. Click Here For Prototype Images Trinity Collins Mt Orebsburg Proto/Friendustry Low HP - New Aluminum Hoppers Trinity is likely a familiar name to railfans as a railcar manufacturer. For many years, Trinity had a facility in Mt. Oreb, OH. In real life, that closed in the 1990s. The building still stands, but is not rail served. In my revision of history, the Trinity Freight Car plant in Mt. Oreb had a different fate. Local businessman Rob Collins stepped in upon hearing Trinity's plans to close the plant and leave hundreds of workers jobless. He struck a deal to partner with Trinity, and continue to make aluminum hoppers. The new arrangement was a subsidiary of Trinity called Trinity Collins. Click Here For Prototype Images     IND TYPE PROTO-Based on real industry FREELANCE-Fictional industry FRIENDUSTRY-Industry tribute to a personal friend.

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