I would like to write about a wood shed which I built some times ago after I have seen Pelsea's descrition of construction of a sawmill - see http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/24663. I found a lot of analogies of his building and its construction to that what I built and so I will like to present my model work.

This is the result ...

The silos are a major landmark for the Loveland Great Western beet factory as well as Loveland itself.  They are huge – 200’ tall with eight 40’ diameter storage silos.  The machinery tower on top of each silo quad proudly proclaims “GW”.  Great Western sugar is gone and the factory mostly torn down but the silos still stand and are still used to store sugar from other factories.  This is a photo from 1985 just after the plant was closed.

I model in HO and am looking to purchase some switches (originally through Walthers track sale though found cheaper on a site) So what would you recommend I would like less than $20 a switch and just need the basics any recomendations?

Endings and Beginnings

I’ve been with a model railroad club now for a couple of years, but have to part ways; the travel is just excessive—I’ll still visit on occasion, I’m sure, but 70 miles each way is a killer.

Ralph DeBlasi's Lehigh Valley - Wyoming Division - on Facebook ...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/RSDLVRR/permalink/907623599345652/

 In 1909 the Baldwin Locomotive Works, of Eddystone (the largest Baldwin plant), in Pennsylvania built the first two of the, 2-8-8-2's, and sold them to the Southern Pacific Railroad. (who classified them as MC-1).

The Baldwin R-1's of 1925 to the Great Northern Railway

As I planned my version of CN's Pine Street spur, I started thinking about how I wanted to throw the turnouts.  I definitely wanted to avoid just pressing a button to throw a switch, hoping that I could find something closer to what is done on the prototype.  There are many mechanical switch machines out there, but I wasn't quite satisfied with the type of actuator that they require, namely pushing/pulling on some type of knob that is mounted against the fascia and in most instances connected via a music wire to the switch machine.