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Ore cars and more Ore cars
I show you the four different sizes and colors at the Copper King Mine. Then we talk about the thousand at Bingham canyon mine, history, and pictures. February 1963 Kennecott started building their own ore cars. Some photos from the Larry Sax collection found at utahrails.net.
Corn Syrup in the early 1980s. HELP
Another question for the historians.
Looking at a facility that could possibly fit into the layout that was and still is a Juice Prodcuts beverage production facility. Currently it receives covered hoppers and those classic corn syrup tank cars.
I would like to back date this operation to roughly 1980. Any ideas of the type of tank car used for corn syrup back then?
Also what would be in covered hoppers? Sugar I assume?
Thanks,
Help finding Asian figures
I’ve been looking for O scale figures that might represent railroad or field workers from the turn of the century up until the 1920’s. My preference is Chinese or Japanese but any Asian figures seem elusive. Anybody have some leads?
Neil Erickson, Hawaii
Hazardous Material Handling - Pre-1977
Here is a link to a pdf copy of the handout for a clinic I presented today, Oct. 25, 2020, on the OpSig Virtual Meet Up on "Hazardous Material Handling, Pre-1977". In 1977 the old hazmat rules changed to the more modern ones we used today. This clinic looks as the rules from about 1914 up until 1976.
https://wnbranch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/HazmatHandlingOct25.pdf
Sleepy town of Bingham on the Copper King Mine and railroad.
Sleepy town of Bingham on the Copper King Mine and railroad. The video I uploaded this week on my YouTube channel is on Copperton the last remaining town at the mouth of Bingham canyon, nothing to do with model railroading so I just share a link if you want to check it out; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHPgr-wWPwk&t=22s
Unloading Gondolas
Folks,
I was reading an article in the October 2020 NMRA magazine about a "sand train" that operates in Louisville, Kentucky. This train is operated by RJ Corman company and delivers gondola loads of sand from the Nugent Sand Company on the Ohio River to its distribution yard in Lexington, Kentucky. Apparently, this "unit train" operates once a day. The gondolas are loaded by a conveyor belt mounted on a moveable boom system.
Industries in the past - how to find out?
I've found an interesting industrial area via Google Maps, rail served in former times. Google shows the name and type of industry today - but how to find out which industries were there in the past, let's say 15 years ago, when they were still rail served?
Dispatchers
For all you Old Heads...
Got a certain D****** you love...or maybe Hate???
All Roads allowed....you are NOT allowed to B****...
SCL in 1984
Hey guys, back with a research request this time. One of the recent gentlemen that's shown up to the club here in town has a 30X30 building behind the house that he and I are planning on sticking a double decker/partial mushroom design in. Prototype is Seaboard Coast Line, era is 1984 between the L&N absorption and CSX, and territory is the Birmingham to Manchester section covering Birmingham, Bessemer, Cosa Pine, Talladega, LaGrange and Manchester.
SCL in 1984
Hey guys, back with a research request this time. One of the recent gentlemen that's shown up to the club here in town has a 30X30 building behind the house that he and I are planning on sticking a double decker/partial mushroom design in. Prototype is Seaboard Coast Line, era is 1984 between the L&N absorption and CSX, and territory is the Birmingham to Manchester section covering Birmingham, Bessemer, Cosa Pine, Talladega, LaGrange and Manchester.
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