The original design for the town of West Valley consisted of a mainline (light ballast), a
passing siding/secondary mainline (dark ballast), an industry track and team track off the
secondary, a passenger station on the main and a small creamery siding, also off the main.
The creamery building was assumed to be in the aisle. Because of trailing points, the
creamery could only be served by Eastbound local passenger trains. There had to be a better way.
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Adding about 3 inches to the layout in this area allowed a new, expanded creamery building
to get "built" as shown in green. The old siding became the outbound track for Pasteurized,
homogenized milk that is shipped out in cars with glass-lined insulated tanks (like giant
Thermos bottles). My creamery just processes the milk and ships it out to be bottled. A
new inbound milk track and a runaround/holding track were also added as shown.
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With the creamery building removed down to the foundation, we can see the inbound
and outbound milk tracks and their uses.
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This is how the area appears today, with the creamery building completely in the aisle space.
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