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South American Alcos
Continuing on my recent Alco theme:
If you want to model an all Alco railway with an exotic twist, give a thought to the Buenos Aires al Pacifico Railway in Argentina.
https://ageologistchasingtrains.blogspot.com/2020/09/buenos-aires-al-pacifico-railway.html
Mumbai Railway
there is a web site called "curiosity stream" that has a 4 part program ( 4 hours total ) on the passenger terminal in mumbai, india.
they move 80 million people a day in and out of mumbai, on a 97% on time record. it's amazing.
the video service is 15 dollars a year, and the shows are varied and interesting.
Trucks replaced the Trains
The trucks were the demise of the trains at Bingham Canyon Mine and this is what I drove when I worked at the mine, so we need to talk about Haulage Trucks.
Boxcar spotted in rural Kansas...
So I was out exploring in Montgomery County, outside Coffeyville spotted this derelict old boxcar on the side of the road. Would love to know what railroad, but no markings other than yellow paint....about 40 feet long, double-sheathed. Would guess Frisco as there was a line near here, but that's just a guess. Any ideas?
Whitetail, last town on the Soo Line
I was recently out of town on a scouting trip to find hunting and fishing locations in eastern Montana. While I was out on the eastern side, I decided to take a couple hours one day and detour to the extreme western edge of the Soo Line at Whitetail, MT. Other photos exist of this line, but I haven't seen any taken during the last few years so I was interested in seeing what the track conditions were like. While the line is not abandoned, there is very little, if any, traffic west of the MT/ND border. Even so, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the track was
Benny's Definitive Guide to Placing Cars in Car Spots Or Otherwise Appropriately Known as "Car Spotting"
(Pictures will be added as they can be located; all pictures used under Copyright Act Section 107 Subsection 1, 2, 3 and 4)
A couple weeks ago we had a discussion about how cars may be shoved around a right radial spur. This lends itself to further discussion on how any industry might move cars while they are within their zone of control.
The details follow in the next post.
Freight Car fleet - Science or Mysticism
Having felt the soft touch of the UP and riding the furlogh board..lol..I now have more time to look into my layout and some details I have been neglecting.
The Shops
We only have a few photos of the large Bingham Canyon shops perched on the mountainside, they were always trying to fine space, like us modeling. My small scratch-built engine house on the Copper King Mine and Railroad.
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