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The Beginning, Copper King Mine and Utah Copper.
From an idea to digging out my crawl space under my family room to starting the project, starting something has a power of its own.
Modern Plywood and Millwork Rail Shipping
Does anyone know why plywood and millwork companies used RBLs (reefers) to ship their products? Does it have to do with temperature and/or moisture control?
Station earnings annual report/carload question
The Pacific Northwest Railway Archive recently uploaded some BN documents, one of which is an annual station report. It lists every station on the BN and the carload earnings for that station for that year.
I'm looking at the 1970 Annual Station Earnings and I'm trying to understand the difference between cars forwarded and cars received.
Lead Mine another Utah Ghost Town. We take a look as it is now and show pictures of its past.
Prototype Bingham canyon mine and the communities around the mine, influenced the building of the Copper King Mine and Railroad.
Tank car handling in the 1950's ?
Hi All, I'm planning to have a small fuel distributor on a spur on my layout and was wondering if anyone is familiar with tank car handling in the 1950's era. Was there anything in the general codes requiring spacer cars between engines and caboose and gasoline or other oil products tank cars? Would these rules apply when an engine was spotting a tank car on a spur or just in a train? Any info would be greatly appreciated....DaveB
How do prototype lights work in a consist?
Santa brought me a ProtoThrottle for Christmas, so I've been working on reconfiguring my locos to work better with it. While working on the light functions, I went down a rabbit hole to better understand how lights are controlled while in a consist. I was able to find an SD40-2 operators manual online that briefly discussed a couple of switches on the back wall related to lights.
Pumping Functions at Oil Products Dealerships
I'm using the Walthers McGraw Oil Company kit for an oil dealership on my 1920s-era railroad. It's obvious that the functions of the two buildings provided in the kit are to contain (1) office space and (2) a pump to feed oil products from the storage tanks to the delivery pipes that fill trucks in front of the buildings. What isn't obvious is how oil products are pumped from the tank car unloading standpipes and ground pipes to the storage tanks.
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