I live on the old IC, now CN mainline.  The tracks are about 100 yards east of my house.  Yesterday my wife and I were working out in the yard when the Sunday local stopped to drop off some cars at the grain elevator just down the road.  The air was filled with the usual sounds of a freight train and my wife asked about them.  She said she had never paid attention before.  So we listened as the brakes squealed and the slack ran in as the train stopped.  There are a lot of sounds audible from a few hundred yards away (distance to the grain elevator) as the crew

Hi first time posting here so I hope this works.

I've been working on an On30 railway that will be built as a series of modules and will be installed in a future train room/studio. 

The projected mainline will have 2 through truss bridges, one is a foreground structure that will be scratch built from Evergreen Styrene and Special Shapes as well as other parts suppliers. It will be approximately 86 scale feet long and will be similar to the Silverton's truss bridge across the Animas River in Durango, CO.  

I realise these were a B&O design but I have three questions about them:

1. Were they used by any other roads?

2. When did they disappear?

3. Were they only 40ft cars?

Thanks!

steve

I need to know what size mesh is needed for applying larger static grass. Our modular group has an applicator, but it only has one screen which is only good for the smallest (2mm) static grass. I have been asked to fabricate a new applicator and need to know what size screen to obtain. I'm using plans from the March/April 2010 MRH.

David Ulmer