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Trackage Rights Clinic
Today I made a presentation about "Trackage Rights" on the OpSig Virtual Meetup. That presentation has been posted on YouTube and on the OpSig Website. If you want to watch it, here's a link:
Update on Missouri-Illinois Railroad book - Shipping in 20 days
The new Missouri-Illinois Railroad book is shipping in 20 days. The book has been several years in the making with interviews, help from former employees, hundreds of hours typing, research, scanning images and trips to Missouri. The result is a 374 page hardbound book with over 700 photos and images. Working with our editor and the art director we were able to reduce the page count by 8 pages which brought our cost down allowing us to reduce the price of the book.
Overview of the book and a few photos
Proper Tank car for Kaolin Slurry 1980
Good morning.
Trying to keep all equipment period correct and a big part of my MEC based layout will be the paper industry.
Looking for what car would have been correct for slurry in 1980.
Thanks,
"The Pine Tree Modeler"
The Border Between Prototypical and Ridiculous Designs
Good Morning Modelers,
I've been planning a future Amtrak Layout that will model #69 Northbound (NYC to Montreal). I'm planning a 'starting point' in Albany (yes, skipping NYC) and going only partway to Montreal, hitting some landmark stops along the way. Era, would be 2010-ish so that I can include the Adirondack Dome Car (a work in progress creation).
Soybeans in containers
A picture in the august Trains showed a train of containers on the way to be loaded with soybeans.
How are the soybeans packaged to go into the containers? Not loose like the old boxcar method i'm sure.
thanks
bill
Forge
The prototype im modeling has a very large facility identified as a forge. My question is, what is the difference between forge and a steel mill? And what kind of loads does it receive?
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