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This is the only shot I have of the "facilities" in a locomotive. This is from BDRV 9581, a SD9 purchased from NS. Hope this helps.
A glass producer would receive a number of materials, all by covered hopper. The largest quantity would be silica sand. Also you can expect to find soda ash, limestone, dolomite, alumina, nephylene syenite (Don't think I spelled that right.), feldspar, sodium borate, and several others in smaller quantities. The glass manufacturers are also required to use cullet (Crushed glass) in certain quantities to recycle, which would also come in covered hoppers. All the materials come in cars from all
We run unit coal trains that just travel over the railroad and coal drags made up from several load-outs drilled along the way. Most loaded trains also get pushers. Coal accounts for right about 95%+ of the traffic on the section we model.
This is the small engine service facility in our Linwood Yard. Since it only services the local power that works out of the yard and some road power that lays over, we didn't need a big shop building. The shop is just big enough to perform the running repairs, any big jobs go to the big shops in Roanoke. We haven't finished all the background scenery yet, we have some backdrop stuff and some trees to do yet.
At the risk of piling on, Kadee couplers all the way. We have them on 300+ freight cars and have been using them for well over 30 years. We run live coal loads with 15-17 car trains of triples, quads, and bathtub style gons up and down 2% and 3% grades and have absolutely no trouble with the Kadees. The one time we tried the McHenry couplers was on a train of 15 Stewart triple hoppers, all empties. The train kept derailing while backing through some turnouts and we couldn't figure out why. We
You're trees look good. You might consider a few things when you make them. We use cheap spray adhesive, it's a little messier, but it holds better and lasts forever. The 3M stuff is real expensive, so we get the Elmer's, Duplo (I think) and other off-brands for a few bucks a can at Wally World and elsewhere. You also might try not coating the bottom of the ball to save on ground foam. We've been using the WS stuff for, literally, thousands of those trees. We buy both the poly fiber
The best way to reduce the amount of damage to a highway vehicle when it is struck by a train is the same way to avoid it happening altogther: DON'T DRIVE IN FRONT OF THE TRAIN!!!!!! It's really simple, the highway vehicle can swerve or even (Gasp!) stop. The train can't. Geeze! Why don't the morons at Smashlab do a show on mounting airbags on all pedestrians so when they step in front of a car, they don't get killed? What worries me now, is that some overzealous, bottom-feeding
You can get the Precision Scale track from any Walthers dealer. It's still in the catalog. In fact, we only found it by accident when paging through the catalog, no one I know had seen it at the time (18+ years ago.). We got our local hobby shop to order some for us to check out. One look was all it took, since the selection of track was a little limited back then. If memory serves, if you can't find it in the Walthers catalog under track, try in the details section under Precision Scale
Try doing a search on here for control panels, there have been several threads that explained different methods. The schematic is probably the easiest to use, pretty much anyone can walk up and figure out how to get from point A to point B. There are a number of methods to get the diagrams on the panel, pick the one you feel most comfortable with. For the routing, you can go to either diode matrix, or some type of route selection circuit where you pick the track and the circuit lines up all the switches
Try Smith and Son Ballast, you'll find they have an ad in Model Railroader. Scenic Express sells some of their stuff, but only some and they charge a little more. You can deal directly with Smith and Son Ballast and get it in quantity. They sell it in small bags or inbilk by the pound. You can also get small bags of the various grades/sizes to see what it looks like in person for a small charge per bag. We use their unit train coal for the live loads we run and their ballast and cinders too.
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