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Question re: HO scale talc covered hoppers

Sun, 2015-12-13 18:06 — pschmidt700

A question for our New England "Knowledgables":

In addition to PD3000s and older PS-2s, what other types of covered hopper could be seen in talc service in Vermont during the late 1970s/early 1980s?

I've come across many photos, especially of Green Mountain Railway Alcos pulling covered hoppers, but the reporting marks are tough to read.

Thanks for any information you can direct me to!

Pulp mills, A video field trip

Tue, 2015-12-08 12:31 — ratled

Found this Youtube video field trip and thought I would pass it on. Since Pulp mills are a good RR customer and offer a lot operational opportunities to model there may be some who might want to understand the basic operations. Be warned though it's a little lacking in video/sound quality

Steve

Creating RR paperwork

Tue, 2015-12-08 11:50 — chrisbutts

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Not that I am anywhere close to having any sort of Ops Session (though the gameplan is to have the first one - hopefully - next year), it is fun to at least think about how the layout is to be operated.

Delving into the past

Tue, 2015-12-08 04:15 — Virginian and L...

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Delving into the past of a location will be the activity I undertake on this Blog. This idea was inspired by myself and three other folks two of which I suspect did not know they were doing the inspiring. I have had discussions with several folks on the site about my free lanced line and followed many threads and blogs on here that talk about research of the prototype and modeling it. Others talk about being bitten by the rolling stock buying bug and have rolling stock in more than one era.

Mark/Plate on american locomotives

Wed, 2015-12-02 10:05 — milanillos

Hello everyone!

I started the hobby two years ago searching information about the American Railroads transition era.

Anyone know what is the Mark/Plate appeared in several locomotives? (check the pictures).

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Escaping Rebuilds - Great Northern 50' Auto Car and Freight Cars in General

Wed, 2015-12-02 09:14 — sanchomurphy

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...

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Rail Explorer bikes Saranac Lake NY

Wed, 2015-12-02 04:10 — steamhog

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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 !

CP Rail's Holiday train

Sun, 2015-11-29 16:45 — Dave.S58

The Holiday season is upon us again and as usual CP rail is on the road with their Holiday train.This link will take you to a video of the activities. Of real interest is at the end of the video where there are links to great drone videos showing the build progress of the Belle Plaine Spur. Their site also shows where the train will appear and when. This is also a wonderful cause to help feed the needy.

Dave