Mexico, MO

Second City on the Layout

Mexico, MO

Mexico is served by both the Norfolk Southern and the Kansas City Southern.  The prototype track arrangements makes for a potentially wonderful opportunity for the model layout.  Starting west of Mexico the Kansas City Southern main line runs adjacent to the Norfolk southern main line, so while I will add a bit of cross over between the two railroads within Mexico city limits, I will also model a bit of the KCS mainline.

Mexico was once a major source of the nations firebrick supply with two major refractories in town, the one still visible by Google maps would be a major industry to model if I was modeling before the 2002 closure.

Industries currently served by rail in Mexico:

Mexico Plastics: A division of Continental Products, makes printed plastic bags, such as newspaper bags, bagged ice bags, and phone book bags.  Based on the covered hoppers on their sidings, I would have to assume they receive plastic via covered hoppers.

Miller Warehouse: A large warehouse divided and for lease, at least three of the warehouse spaces inside include loading doors to the rail siding.

Roberts Consolidated Industries: They make all sorts of floor installation products and have a siding that comes inside for unloading, while I'm not sure if they receive or ship anything by rail, the building is still a nice example of rail served buildings in Mexico

The ADM Soybean Meal Plant has facilities on both sides of the mainline with a structure over the mainline connecting the two.  It seems to have an abundance of both tank cars and covered hoppers staged at the facility.

 MFA Agri Services has a facility on the east side of town that has a few grain bins and covered hoppers staged at it.  With the size of MFA state wide, I wouldn't even like to guess what this facility is used for because I'm sure I would be wrong.  However still and interesting location to possibly model with its mixture of building, bins, propane tanks...

There are a few more building in the industrial park with rail sidings, but since I was having a hard time even figuring out the company names, I will have to wait til I visit Mexico, MO to further investigate.