Missouri River Bottoms

Missouri River Crossing into Missouri River Bottoms (Earth City)

Wabash Bridge

This bridge was built in 1936 and replaced an early bridge of the same name.  This bridge is currently used by Norfolk Southern to cross the Missouri River near St. Charles on the west and Earth City, MO on the east.

While the prototype crosses the river with city on both sides, on my model I will be crossing from rural on one side of the river to the Earth City Missouri River Bottoms area on the other.

Missouri River Bottoms Industrial Area

Georgia Pacific Corp - Im not sure what this facility of Georgia pacific is specifically used for, but seems to have loads of dimensional lumber about the yard and in sheds, dimensional lumber would be delivered via a center beam car.  Also, I have to assume that the large warehouse is for sheet material that would be delivered in boxcars and unloaded indoors.

Continental Commercial Products - well, they make cleaning products.  They appear to take in covered hoppers, which I assume are full of plastic pellets that they then will use for injection molding of the plastic products they provide (trash cans, floor signs, cleaning carts, mop buckets.... the list goes on and on).

Foam Supplies - I've started to do a little research on the company but really it just continues to say that provide polyurethane systems.  After a bit of research I am surprised to discover how many things are made of polyurethane, the list goes on and on, but for my purposes, Foam Supplies gets liquids in via tank car and appears to ship out via truck.

Also many large warehouses are served by rail:

This is a nice thing on the prototype that would make a very nice element on a model railroad.  Very short rail tunnel under the road.  I guess in this instance, building a concrete tunnel was probably more economical.