This table shows the towns, the most important industries structures that would have been present and the
kinds of traffic it would generate and demand.
I think this is the best exercise you can do to verify the operation capability of your layout and help determine
"where" and "what" things are needed. Check any "demands" and verify if is supplied from anybody ( or just
provide it from staging ) ....
Note that I've put structures name just as sample, taking idea's from commercial kit's.
The type of industries is "evolving" during my definition progress.... I'm documenting about locale resources !
Place
Supplies
Structures
Demands
SF
Mission Bay Freigth yard
Oranges, Vegetables
Ice House & Platform
Oranges, Vegetables
-
RoundHouse, Water Tower, Oil Fueling
Oil, Repair parts
Freigths
Yard Office
Freigths
SF
3rd &Townsend
passengers
mail
Station
Express Mail
SwitchTower
passengers
mail
SF
Port
passengers,Freigths
FERRY apron
passengers,Freigths
-
Perishable Food Enterprises
Orange,Vegetables
Oil
Fuel Company
Oil
packed freigths
Trackside Transfer Co
Freigths, bananas, flour
Fish
Donovan's Transfer Co & LigthHouse
-
machinery, Freigths from ships
Ship Crane
Logs, canned fruits, steel, machinery
-
-
Menlo Park
passengers, mail
Station
passengers, mail
bier
Stuffy's & Bailey's Brewery
Vegetables
-
Gritty McDuff's
-
-
Jerry Riggs Quick Service
-
Santa Clara
passengers, mail
Station
passengers, mail
-
freight house
Food,
-
turntable & 4xengine roundhouse, water tank,,coal and sand house
-
-
Forbes mill
-
-
Elliot and Sons Supply
-
Paper raw material
Hyde Pulp Mill
Pulp wood, Carpetine,
milled grains
Phillips Feed Seed and Fertilizer
Fertilizers
Finished mechanical parts
Fox Run Milling Co
raw metals
furnitures
Duffy's Furnitire
lumbers
Lettuce
Lettuce Farm
Fertilizers
Branch line
Los Gatos
passengers, mail
Station
passengers, mail, food, machinery
canned friuts
Los Gatos cannery
Dried fruis, Prunest
smashed Rocks
Rock bunker
rocks
Felton
passengers, mail,
Station
passengers, mail, supplies, food
-
water tank, turntable & engine roundhouse
equipment, machinery
gun-powder,
Powder works (Rincon siding)
-
Narrow Gauge line
Felton
lumbers,cordwood,rocks
exchange tracks
lumbers,cordwood,rocks
Boulder
Creek
passengers, mail, food
Station
passengers, mail, food
-
water tank, engine house
repair parts
lumbers
Deer Creek Sawmill
supplies, lumber (LOTS of lumber),
cordwood
Lumber camp
food
rocks
Logan (?) Rock quarry
machinery,
Note that this is the first step you need to properly plan a realistic "traffic" on your RR empire ( some people can say "that's more than enough" .... but I will suggest you to go in more detail.
Follow me .... I'm not a "rivet counter"
This is a personal site . Any info here is only for fun. 
