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Logical traffic questions
Railroad ABC, which runs on a 5 day schedule, and has several industries. Each industry has only 1 siding. If industry X has a siding capacity of 6 pieces of rolling stock, and can load or unload that many in 8 hours. I would think that:
1. A random amount of rolling stock, based on their requirements, would be delivered each day?
2. All the rolling stock will be loaded or unloaded, and will be removed when the railroad delivers the next days rolling stock?
Big loads
The Port of Catoosa just outside Tulsa is a large industrial park with loads of big industries building loads and loads of big loads!
I heard there was a couple of big loads there waiting to be moved so I went out this morning an the way home from work and shot these pix.
Picked up a Union Pacific General at the Amherst Model Railroad Show this Weekend
Went to the Big E railroad show in West Springfield, MA this past weekend. Great show and lots of people. I'm mostly interested in O Gauge Generals and was lucky enough to find another to add to my small collection. This was a Lionel Union Pacific. If you'd like to take a look, you can see it running around the upper layer of my Southwest Tombstone layout in the video here.
Weathering a concrete elevator
I'm working on a Walther's ADM elevator kit. A ran across an old blog from 2008 that discussed weathering a concrete elevator:
https://modelrailroading.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/grain-silo-transformation/
Railroad Scriptures
. . . and on the 2nd day the Chief Operating Officer said "Let there be light," and the Chief Maintenance Officer said to his men, "Make it so." And IKEA was good . . . . Thus it began, with wire and snips and hot irons they went to work to make it a railroad.
Railroad Signs & Signals
To All: The position light signal system was used by the Pennsylvania RR ,the Baltimore & Ohio RR and a few other railroads. The dwarf type of this signal was not photographed as much as the high level signal, however. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.
Railroad Maintenance of Way
To All: I captured this gem at Ludington, Michigan on the CSX, in May, 1993. This light duty crane is a very do able scratch build! Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.
Single well and autorack cars
Usually you can see well cars and autorack cars making up a whole train or at least a large cut of it. But sometimes there is a mixed freight with one single well car or one single autorack car in between other cars.
Are they really spotted to a customer at some team track or so which receives only one single container or one single autorack car? Unloading a single well car somewhere should not be too complicated, you only need some crane. But unloading the upper level of an autorack car isn't too easy unless you have the right fixture for it.
What do you think about this chain?
What do you, the MRH community, think of this chain I am evaluating as a possible product?
On the top is Builders In Scale #250 40LPI chain
On the bottom is a much lighter chain I have been able to source.
Here are both chains shown on a model:
Coal and Steel Railroad op session on Sunday with Bill and David
Coal and Steel Railroad op session on Sunday with Bill and David. They came over and we ran most of the trains.
Note; The car movement cards work. There are two more things I need to improve on my layout.
1. Job card
2. Standardize switch controls.
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