making sense of Folsom Part 2 - the industries

During a period of research on rail served industries on the Placerville branch I discovered a piece on the SP Yahoo groups site written by Wendell Hoffman in October of 2007. It  contained a summary of  industries served by SP's  Placerville Branch throughout the branches history. Below is the track work drawing of Folsom and Latrobe on the layout. My trackage have trains entering from two directions on the same side of town. To your left and moving eastward toward Latrobe, then at the switch toward Elvas Tower (staging) moving westward. It means that all trains are turned in the yard at Folsom. The yard guy on operations days gets to figure out which direction, once turned, a train continues. In this case its pretty easy to do. West bounds come downgrade off the branch. They enter Folsom, turn and after the yard gets finished with any cuts or adds, head outbound toward Elvas Tower - staging. The prototype had the well known wye outside of town, at Folsom Junction. The Wye is still there. The model has a turntable on the western end of town. That's how we turn our loco's here.

track plan Folsom and Latrobe
drawn by Tom Ebert and 3rd planit

The prototype yard in Folsom existed in the late 1800's under CP control and was moved to Sacramento when SP took over. I obtained the track or station plan for Folsom from CSRM.  station plan Folsom. 
At the time of the drawing the plans shows the station at Folsom. Folsom station. The third and last. It still exist.
On the model, several of the on line industries existed in Folsom, but there are two which are entirely made up, like Campbell Storage named after a fellow Auburn modeler and layout owner, or Folsom Auto Warehouse which has a sliver of reality attached to it.  I was sitting at the research table of the Folsom Historical society, reading old 1930's newspapers, trying to get the "flavor of the place", when I came across some Folsom Chevrolet newspaper advertisements. The paper was dated in the late 20's, or early 30's. It got me thinking how automobiles were transport to Folsom then. The roads weren't that good, so I imagined that automobiles were brought by train. Presently a flat represents the spot where cars and parts are off loaded. I plan on removing it one day and simply have an open field, with a small ramped shipping deck and of course lots of 30 something autos.  
There is one not yet active project for Folsom. I'm going to convert my 90' Walther's TT to push button operation. This will be a plus for operations. The yards track power and TT are in the same power district. And shorts in the yard reek havoc with the DCC turntable. The push button operation is simple and is not affected by DCC shorts. 

more on Folsom next time