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Escaping Rebuilds - Great Northern 50' Auto Car and Freight Cars in General
Hi everyone,
I recently purchased a Westerfield Great Northern 50' Wood Auto Car. To my dismay it came as the as built model in the mid-1920's rather than the rebuilt version that would fit in better with my era of the early 1950's. I will probably keep it but it brought up an interesting question.
How often, if ever do freight cars escape rebuilds by their respective railroads? My understanding with this model in a fleet of around 1000, most were rebuild by the mid 1940's.I'm basically trying to make a square peg fit in a round hole...
Update on the Middleton Mill project
Well the basic structure of Middleton Mills is done. Painted and weathered. Have to add the details like vents, pipes, chimney, crates on the loading dock, some workers etc.
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Rail Explorer bikes Saranac Lake NY
The web site for rail explorers states: "These custom built Railbikes have never before been available in America. " This six mile ride is in my plans for next summer !
A place to store the huge liftout... on the BNML (Video)
That crazy huge liftout between "our space" and "her space" now
has a place to go between sessions.
For background information and construction details see my original post.
Scenery Update
I was inspired to add some more scenery by a recently discovered artifact from my previous layout.
George Booth
Director of Everything, The New Great Western Railway
http://users.frii.com/gbooth/Trains/index.htm
Minicam
I recently purchased a minicam with sound, the one in the Micro-Mark catalogue. I have been only able to get it to work on my expensive Toshiba high-def TV. If I hook it up to my cheaper, but newer Dynex, the picture rolls like the old tube-types when the tuning is not quite right. There is no vertical adjustment control. At our clubhouse, there are 3 older TV's with the big video tube. Same thing, the picture rolls. I can't figure it out. Why does the minicam work with one TV and not others? Anyone else out there h
Industry Yard Tracks - Operation and Naming
A couple questions for the community on industry yards:
How does a large industry yard like those at a paper mill with its own plant sitcher operate?
Are tracks allocated based on commodity (track 1 - wood chips (loaded / unloaded), track 2 - addtives, etc...) for ease of sorting by the plant switcher, or are they all just 'storage' (cars placed on any unused track in the yard) except for a designated pick-up and/or set-out track for the local switch job?
GP-10s finally?
So, I went to the Intermountain web site today, and they are taking reservations for the new GP10 engines. Only 1 group of 4 interests me, so my choice is easy. Wish I could afford all 4 of them.
IAIS's West End - Don't need a doctor, just a bunch of nurses
A couple years ago I set out to find models of HO scale anhydrous ammonia wagons, called "nurse tanks", such as those shown below, from http://daltonag.com/dnn/daltonag.com/Portals/0/DNNGallery/uploads/2015/4/16/WN%20Series.jpg :
TSR - Lots of White right now
Some more quick shots
The layout goes from Room #1 ( single level ) to room #2 via grade ( No-lix )
Franklin ( my scenery crew ) works on the cardboard strips. We went to Costco and they gave us large sheets of cardboard they use on the pallets. We ran them through the table saw for strips.
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