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STOP sign
Is there some rule when to place a stop sign for the train, even if crossing signals are installed?
"Somewhere Southwest"-MRH-Blog: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/21520
Looking for Prototype Modeler June/July 1985
Wondering if anyone could help me in locating Prototype Modeler issue June/July 1985. Specifically I am interested in the article on the North Stratford Railroad. I have found the text from the article on Trainlife but for some reason the pictures are not working. If anyone can help me with finding a copy of the magazine or can tell me if I'm not doing something right to get the pictures to work on the Trainlife site I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you
Jason
New lighting for real (full size)locomotives!!
New for the rivet counters.
Led lighting for the full size locomotives in the USA.
http://www.railheadcorp.com/locomotive-leds
Now the real ones and your models can have LED's.
Small terminal yard
I've been working on a terminal industrial yard design which is adjacent to a city scape. The design is based in part on a John Armstrong design and on the design found in "The Essential City Yard: OP session - http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/22008.
There are 3 warehouses and three factories to switch. There is also an intermodal (container yard).
Turnouts are No. 6 Peco (code 83), squares are 1ft.
Workable? missing something?
My trip to the Smokies and how I "discovered" a railroad I didn't know about.....
I've lived here in Georgia all my life and one of my families favorite getaway destinations that is fairly nearby has always been The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I knew that, way back when, before it was a park that there had been logging operations. Not being much of a proto guy anyway I'd never been really that much interested in it and assumed that "The Smoky Mountain Railroad" that ran back in that time was a logging line. Well not quite.
Propane in 1967
Propane began shipping in 1952 by rail according to my research to date. I am trying to determine what railway cars would have served a propane industry in 1967. Box cars for individual cylinders is my guess, but higher volume would require a pressurized tank car? Does anyone know? Tx.
Ballasting by the Book or by the Prototype?
When reading about ballasting, I see a lot of
On prototype trackage, you will rarely see ballast on top of the ties.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
I took a little drive along the BCRY route today for a little inspiration and to see if there was any sign of recent activity (though with the snow mostly gone I don't know how I was supposed to tell). I pulled into TAG and sure enough, two of the line's ubiquitous DM&E hoppers were spotted on the twin sidings. But something caught my eye that I never noticed before - they both had patch jobs for something called RCPE.
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