Locos - Rolling stock (general)
rolling stock 70s -80s
Does anybody out there have any recommendations on resources to locate information on rolling stock, ie a coal car new in the 40s how many years of service can be expected?..general rolling stock questions. I am attempting to model late 70s into the late 80s and I am not sure the average life on rolling stock. Any assist would be appreciated.
Rebuilding and Detailing Athearn Switchers Part 2
Lets pick up where I left off last spring. While I mull changes to the Athearn frame, let's start cutting the shell and adding improvements. A mix of old and new photo etchings and details will vastly impove the old tooling.
Milk traffic in Georgia and other southeastern Atlantic states
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?
Adventures in Car Storage
Author's note: This thread spawned many solutions. I encourage you to peruse them all. If want want to see the system I ultimately used, jump right to page 8.
I currently keep by rolling stock in thier kit boxes, which occationally causes issues because 50ft cars don't fit back in the most Athearn or MDC boxes with the couplers installed.
I'm playing with Sterilite plastic drawers from Target.
Ideal loco horn placement - railroaders opinions wanted
I'm kit bashing a GP35M while not modeling a specific prototype unit. When finished, I'll install a Loksound Select decoder with a 16 cylinder 645C prime mover.
I'm trying to decide on horn placement - top of the cab or out on the long hood. What do the real-world railroaders prefer?
Layout Sound for DC only no on-board sound cards
Building my first HO layout (4x8 table top, 2 mainlines). Some of my equipment is pre 1950 Steam loco built by my Dad. No way I am taking those apart to try to add sound cards. My newer stuff none is DCC ready, hence my 7 block DC layout w/ 2 CABs.
Kadee semi-scale couplers vs. Sergents
This is a follow-up to a Weekly Photo Fun thread discussion that started at http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/32447?page=2#comment-322977 and continued on concerning the merits of Sergent couplers vs. Kadee semi-scale. Since we were straying from the intent of that thread, I thought I'd start a new topic. See first reply below.
What’s on your workbench?
I haven’t seen this thread for a while so thought I’d kick it off with my passenger car bash to make a 49’ Second Class Car:
Update!
Accurail WP ACF 3-bay Hopper
I bought an ACCURAIL ACF covered hopper that is a Western Pacific roadname. The CAPY shows 198000 and the LD LMT is 165,000. I thought the CAPY should not be greater than the LD LMT. Are there decals available to match the Accurail lettering to correct the LD LMT?
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