Fresh out of HS in 1971, I worked at a local terminal grain elevator in Salina, KS.  Capacity, around 10 million bushels.  At that time, this elevator did a "boxcar" business of receiving grain by rail.  I didn't see many covered hoppers, but I saw tons of boxcars.  For several years I have tried to remember, let alone find, an example of how the grain was extracted from the boxcars.  I remembered that there was a twin screw auger that was inserted into the boxcar, and it traveled on rails, but beyond that, nothing.

A couple of weeks ago my father-in-law asked if I wanted to drive up to Puyallup, WA (a little over 3 hours away) for the WGH show. It had been talked up a bit in the latest email blast from the NMRA's Pacific NW Region, and he thought that Digitrax was going to be there, and he had a question for them. Unfortunately, Digitrax was not there (I imagine they were prepping for the Railroad Hobby Show in Springfield, MA) so he is going to have to contact them separately (if anyone knows if there are any issues with using LiON 9V batterys in UT4R throttles, please mention it...).

Hi everybody, I have a brass model from Woosung, Rail Classics, with buckeye trucks. Everything is great on the model except the pizza slicer flange on the wheels. I am looking to replace with the Exactrail .088 36" wheel sets. I wanted to just throw out this before I bought the wheels to see if anybody had done this before and if there were any problems or anyone has advice?

Thanks,

Martin

Due to a house move and change of workplace, I have to tear down my layout.

My new train room is smaller than the actual one, And there is no place for Ullapool and Inverlael. But my other modules could be reused. I will keep you up to date with my new layout.

Markus