If so would you care to mention if you are satisfied with this item. I have watched the video re operation etc.Looks good but a hefty amount to outlay.

Thanks Tom

Hey...

Does anyone have photos or video of how grain was UNLOADED from boxcars in the '50s they can post or reference with a hyper-link? I'm building a moderately big flour mill so I'm not so interested in guys with shovels. I also don't have space to model the mechanisms that grabbed a car and tilted it back and forth, shaking it until all the grain ran out the doors.

I am interested in photos of winch operated "mormon boards" or a suction devices that would have been used to speed up unloading (over several guys with big shovels.

When I was a younger modeler I wanted this car or that locomotive. Sometimes I'd search eBay international listings to find something I wanted from overseas. I could and still sometimes go to a train show and fill my arms with stuff.  But as I've matured I'm less interested in collecting and more interested in modeling. I'm currently working on plans for modeling two different prototypes of which no models exists. 

Anybody else here find themselves shifting from. Collector to modeler? 

Matt

I'm an N scale kind of guy helping out a friend who is adding a new peninsula to an older layout to provide more operating interest.  On this peninsula he will be dedicating most of the area to a yard and he asked me some questions I wasn't too sure about, I'm not totally bilingual N/HO.  He was mentioning that John A recommended number 6 turnouts for yard ladders and he was wondering if this is rather excessive.