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Entry 9Yorklyn Delaware Locale- Northern Delaware Minimum Radius- 12.5" Mainline 11.25" Spurs This Trackplan Is based off of the Industries in Yorklyn Delaware which are the Garrett Snuff Mill and National Vulcanized Fibre Co. (NVF) A sattelite map of the area is here. The buildings to the south are the NVF Plant and the Buildings to the North are the Site of the snuff mill. About half of the snuff mill structures were lost to flooding of the Red Clay Creek in 2003 which explains why there aren't as many structure on the map as on the plan. The track plan in the Garrett snuff mill is copied almost exactly from a HABS-HAER drawing here. The plant would receive tobacco at warehouses D and E where it would be aged. The tobacco was cured and milled in mills 1, 2, 3, and 5. (Mill four was further downstream in another location.) The milled snuff was stored in warehouse A and then packaged and shipped out by rail from buildings B and C. The plants two coal trestles received coal to power the mills' steam engines. The millrace down the center of the complex dates from when the mill was water-powered and was only used for reserve power if the steam engines were under repair. NVF received wood chips and other materials necessary for paper production and shipped out vulcanized fibre, a plastic like cellulose product. The receiving spurs are along the wall with building flats to represent a large part of the mill. A large section of the plant is used to hide the west staging yard. The shipping section of the plant is the most interesting as the spur to it is also the companies coal trestle. Operations would consist of the way freight coming from either Hockessin to the west or Ashland to the East, both represented by staging. The train would switch both plants and then continue on to the other staging yard. |
