adding rail served brewery

I want to add a brewery to my layout, it doesn't have to be a prototype its gonna be fantasy more than based on a real facility but I want it to look authentic. Are there any good building kits out there I can use to help do this? Also, I know many places get tanks and covered hoppers, along with boxcars so I want to have my buildings be able to handle these types of cars. Any help would be appreciated.

I would like it to be more modern, if that helps too.

 

Heljan made an N scale kit for a brewery, item #N768. Here is a Walthers online catalog link but it is several years old and may not be current:

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/322-678

As a matter of fact, my inventory shows I have that kit, and I don't think I'm going to use it after all. I am building a layout based "loosely" on Galveston.

GALVESTON BREWING COMPANY was located 1895-1965 near 33rd and Market Street (Ave D), a block from the sprawling abandoned but standing Falstaff brewery.

I can’t find any pictures of Galveston Brewing but the Galveston Architecture Guidebook (Rice University Press) describes it as a “castellated Victorian Romanesque style” structure, similar to the Lone Star brewery at San Antonio which is now the San Antonio Museum of Art.



Both breweries were designed by architect E. Jugenfeld of St. Louis. The electric railway serving the Pearl Brewery passed competitor Lone State Brewery.

 

The Miller Brewery isn't far from where we live.

 

Coors in Golden, CO.
http://binged.it/1Ph7xWr

Interested in this topic as I would like to have a "protolanced" modern-ish brewery on a future layout.

I like the idea of something architecturally interesting like the San Antonio structure, then with a more modern corrugated metal or tilt wall extension or adjacent structure. And a small concrete grain elevator against the backdrop to round it out.

 

I used a walthers feed mill kit as a brewery. It's small enough to fit on the layout and fits the bill.



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I got three of these

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Walthers-AM...ies-N-scale-/291553120848?hash=item43e1eb9250

American hardware supply kits by Walthers to splice together into one larger building. I think the building will look good with "Jos. Schlitz brewing company on it.

Randy

 

That would look neat


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IIRC... Model Railroader Magazine published a book or booklet about 'The Beer Line".
It should be on their interactive archives for downloading or viewing if you are a subscriber to MR.
I believe it was authored in part by David Popp.
Here's a link to some images. BTW... it is an HO layout... but the structures are by Walthers and there are corresponding N scale versions.
Red Wing Milling is one of the structures used.
https://www.google.com/search?q=model+railroader+beer+line+layout&biw=1280&bih=603&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CDcQsARqFQoTCPOH1_aNxsgCFch-iAod4asFmg

 

The Beer Line was also the MR project layout in 2009 and featured in the January through May issues.

 

Probably too small to merit a ton of rail traffic if any for a brewery.

If you're planning on having a brewery be a major source of traffic, you should probably go big. Walther's grain elevator, and the Heljan kit kitbashed into a complex would be a good start.

Hoppers in for the grain. Boxcars in for the packaging, hops, etc.. Refrigerator cars out with the beer.

 

I think it was MC Fujiwara (?) who also suggested an occasional outgoing gondola full of broken glass.

 

I have limited space so a small independent local Brewer is what I was going for.


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Another question on this matter maybe someone can help me, do breweries use tankers at all? And if so what do they carry, thanks

 

Coors used to ship tank cars full of wort (essentially beer that is part-way through the production process...sort of "just add water". That's probably way oversimplifying it but that's how I understand it to work.) from Golden to other breweries where the process was completed. I believe that practice has been discontinued in recent years, but it's certainly something in the realm of possibilities.

Also, the Coors brewery received hoppers full of coal to fuel a power plant used for powering the vast complex of large machinery. So that's another option for freight cars delivered. (suppose it could be a gas-powered plant as well if you really want tank cars although you would figure that would likely come from pipelines in modern times unless there was a physical barrier to that.)

 

Here is the Uinta brewery in Salt Lake City. A smal local Brewer that has become popular.

Another view of the Uinta Brewery



I will be using their stuff (logos) on my brewery.

Here is another one called squatters or wasatch brewing co.




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Olympia. It's the water, and that's about it. Weakest beer ever.