It goes on to describe the growth of the region, its industries and population centers. Each module is described with illustrations and text. Following a general introduction of Old Town, each industry on that module is fully described. McAdams Brewery was founded in 1899 and produces Lorain Lager for local consumption and export to Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. Trailer truck loading is done at Alymer Intermodal.
Shipments are cardboard boxes of bottled beer on pallets for refrigerator car service.
Paper, ink and boxes for an in-house printing department. Glass bottles, wheat, hops, kelp, stainless steel barrels and coal for the furnace for the production of charcoal which is used in beer filtering. Designing and making the manual required imagination and a few basic tools. It was really no more difficult than preparing a high school book report or a thorough business proposal. A valuable resource for producing a manual or rule book is Bruce A. Chubb's book, How to Operate Your Model Railroad .