Hi All,

In his book “Mid sized and manageable track plans”, Iain Rice has an interesting plan for a layout set in the Georgia/South Carolina border area, and includes a creamery as an on-line industry with its own spur, with a comment to the effect that it was not just the North East that carried a lot of milk traffic, but no more is said than that!

Does anyone have any info on this? Were there dedicated milk cars, was this in churns, or were there bespoke milk cars containing class-lined steel tanks for the bulk transport of milk?

I have the Walther's Machine Shop underway, about ready to assemble the sides onto the base.  I plan to LED light it along with most everything else I build in the future for the layout.

The problem I'm going to have to deal with is the glow through the styrene that occurs with lighted structures.  A building that glows in the dark seems a bit unrelistic and counter productive.

I'm trying to assemble a Walthers deck girder bridge. It's unpainted.  For the life of me I cannot get the bottom bracing glued to the side girders.  I've tried Plastruct Plastic Weld and ACC to the parts properly clamped together, but the joint won't stick and it comes apart.  I mean, not even quasi-sticking together; I remove the clamps and the two pieces just come undone.

Any suggestions before I launch this kit out the window?