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Understanding Operations
I went through my Shipper's Guide and got a list for the towns I am modeling. I am curious how these industries utilized the railroads to transport their goods or raw materials as none of the ones listed here had rail access. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. This would be mid-1950s specific.
* Agricultural Implements
* Banks
* Canning Factories (vegetables)
* Coal Dealer
* Creameries
* Flour, Feed, & Grist Mills
* Foundries
* Fruit & vegetable Dealers
* Grain & Feed Dealers
* Oil Dealers ( additionally does anyone know what the designation do. Stands for? )
Detail Associates grills
Hello all. I know it is a long shot, but does anyone have a set of Detail Associates F7 grills, part #229-2704, they would like to sell? They seem to be back ordered until December. Thanks for looking. Also, I love all the great photos and info that I have found on this forum and the great job the MRH staff is doing with ezine. I look forward to every months release. Mark
New Turret Drive Design for Athearn Crane
The New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. Co. maintenance department wasn't to happy with the first two turret drives of the 200 ton wreck cranes it had ordered. So the shop guys decided to call in the shop guys of the Kingstone Locomotive Works to see if they had a better idea. The NY,V,& N Rwy had a criteria that the drive fit inside the turret well and that the motor be the same as for the boom and hook. Here's what they came up with.
Water for a Large Harbor Scene
Our Club is putting in a large oval (5' by 6' 41/2") harbor.It took a little over 40 lbs. of plaster mixed with 8 gallons of water to cover the base of the harbor with a 3/16" thick layer of plaster.This large of an area will be especially hard to cover with Envirotex Lite. After painting the base, I was thinking of using a couple layers of no buff floor wax as the base with gloss heavy gel medium for waves on top of the floor wax coats.
Has anyone tried this before, or does anyone know of a reason why this will not work?
Richlawn RR V2 - Benchwork begins!
What a benchmark (get it?) day for me as yesterday I constructed my first piece of benchwork. It's been over 6 months since we moved into our Florida home. Now I feel like I'm finally making some progress on the railroad! It took me several hours to complete because I'm a slow worker in the first place and I purposely slow down even more when working with saws.
You can find the rest of the story in the first comment, below.
Waiting and Planning
After too many years of not even having room to store a module, I'm finally going to be able to build a real layout. My wife and I are moving into a new house where I'll have an entire spare bedroom to use as a combined office and layout room. Okay, so I won't have room to model the entire BNSF Southern Transcon, but I'm still excited. The new place also has plenty of space for a workshop in the garage, and a big enough yard that we can have a dog.
What type of Soldering Iron to use for feeder wires
Hi, about to start my N scale layout. I used a weller soldering iron to solder my droppers to the track for my HO layout.
With the smaller scale track I was wondering whether to by a resistance soldering iron to minimise the chance of melting ties.
Any thoughts/experience pout there in the community?
Micro Mark have a small unit on sale which prompted this post.
Cheers
VinP
Sydney, Australia
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