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I don't think steam era modeling will ever completly disappear, there is so much information available out there now that it's fairly easy if you want to do the research to model a time period even if you weren't alive then. Like you I also model the late 80's and early 90's because that's what I remember as well but for guys like us there are always steam excursions as an excuse to run that cool steam engine we just had to have.
I'm a forty year old high school educated carpenter and some of this DCC stuff makes my head spin. I feel better now knowing that some of this stuff is hard for computer guys.
Couldn't the track be set up in the right of way of the 4th track that they pulled up in the 80's. That way you could actually set up bench work and work on the track standing up. Just a thought.
I don't have a complete answer but as far as the "J" goes it used to add it's own power to coal trains off the BNSF, the trains were picked up at Eola yard. UP coal trains kept the UP power why this was done this way I don't know.
I remember the movie and the scene but I don't know where it was shot. Remember that just because the movie was based in Chicago not all of it may have been filmed here. I will have to try to watch it again
I have many projects in the works. I sort of work on things when the mood suits me some nights I feel like weathering or building car kits other nights I'll work on locos that need to be finished but eventually they'll all be done or passed on to my kids and maybe they'll finish them.
My layout is in a fully finished basement. Framed, drywalled, floor coverings and supended ceiling. I did this one major reason: Comfort, my theory is if the room is not comfortable you are less likely to want to work down there. As far a the ceiling as a carpenter I always recommend suspended grid ceilings. Remember if you drywall the ceiling you lose access to alot of the mechanicals of the house, pipes, shutoffs, cleanouts, ducts& dampers, phone, tv, computer cables splitters and junction
You're right it was LTV not Inland. Are the Hulett's still there or were they scrapped? and where about was the plant? I was thinking you plug the location in to Google Earth and see if you can tell if they are still there or have been removed.
I've used Rail Graphics custom decals for about the past 20 years. His website is still up it is www.railgraphicsdecals.com . I've had good luck with them and he offers several different size sets depending on your budget. The locomotive in the picture in my profile was lettered with his decals. Good Luck
That was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I first saw these machines on Trains Magazine's video Making and Moving Steel on the Rails. Inland Steel had or has a coke plant on Chicago's southside that used two of these to unload coal from barges but even they didn't get as close to the machines as the youtube guy did. BTW the ones at Inland were still in operation when the video was shot in 1996 or 1997 so they were in operation after the Cleveland ones. Does any one know if the Chicago