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Greetings everyone!
I am returning to model railroading after a 20 year hiatus. I model interurbans on O scale and am looking for a map of Milwaukee. WI that shows industrial trackage. In particular I want to see the Milwaukke Road`s industrial trackage on the north side of town. I found some old ariel photos but they are not clear enough. My railroad will be free lanced based on this area.
Thank you in advance,
Mike
Over weight rail car? Is this guy wrong?
CAPY 80000
LD LMT 81700
LT WT 54300
Is it a total of 81700+54300 = 136000 max on scale
or is it
81700-54300 = 27400 for load with a max of 81700 on scale?
What I understand is
LD LMT is the total load the car can hold, CAPY is the design load. Car designed hold 80000 of widgets. But it might be over stuffed to 81700 of widgets.
You Are Here
(The lens I had wouldn't allow the picture to be taken any closer)
Not sure if anyone else has posted something like the above picture. It was taken in a rural area with some big industries that have large private rail yards. The industries are chemical and farm related the partial building in the picture is a PROCOR maintenance facility.
The Camden & Amboy Railroad (C&A) - New Jersey
I'd kind of like to think of this as a "What if?" type of post. For those that have read my post,
A couple of videos from 2002 UP Challenger & Circus Train Runby
For my first blog entry, thought I would share two of my videos that I took on 8mm videotape back in 2002. Some of you have probably seen these on another forum.
Had this on 8mm video tape for years (obviously) from July 6, 2002. Recent messages here got me interested in digitizing it and here it is! And, yes, that is me taking pictures at trackside (still haven't digitized them, they are 35mm film). Taken in Mt. Prospect, IL (just north of OHare Airport.
Displaying Railroad Lanterns and Memorabilia
I would guess that a lot of modelers here have railroad memorabilia. Is there a place or way that you like to display your items at home. I am talking lanterns in particular but photos of any of your displays would be appreciated. I have a lot of documents, a lantern, and a telegraph key/sounder; all family heirlooms not on display and stored.
One more one town...
While reading Jim Six's blog ( http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/32127 ) on the one town theme, it really got me to start rethinking the direction my around the wall / shelf layout was heading. The responses and ideas have been very enlightening to say the least, with many bonafiable reasons to actually take this approach. With that being said I plan to model a time frame around 1976 early spring / late fall, The SD40-2 being my favorite workhorse sets me near that date (11'x24' foot room).
ALPINE RAILROAD IN NJ-LOOKING FOR SUGGESTIONS
I am asking the MHR community for some help in solving a problem I created with my choice of layout scenery. My layout was originally conceptualized 25 yrs ago as a much smaller layout with no intention of adding a backdrop or anything like that. I started this current version with the old idea then expanded it because I had the room to do so. Although I do plan on adding a backdrop at some point, I didn't take this into consideration when I stuck with the basics of how I originally thought the scenery would look.
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