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About 10 years ago, a couple of programmers and I joined together and developed a website for a new sports talk radio station in Atlanta. The website had lots of interactive features, including a set of forums and message boards. The site was free to use, all you had to do was register for access and provide some simple demographic information. Sound familiar? The forums were a big hit. There was more traffic on those forums than were on some of the local college sports message boards, and if you
Amen! All the freedoms we have today were paid for by the service of our veterans. Our office actually sent out a very nice company-wide email yesterday naming all in our company who served--very nice gesture. Jamie
I agree completely...MB Klein is my preferred vendor. Great website and the realtime inventory rocks. I use them over my LHS since they moved 15 miles further away and cranked up their prices. Jamie
I have a multi-level layout, so the upper part of the shadow box is actually the bottom of the next level up. As such, I am just going to leave it unpainted since it will be the underside of roadbed, scenery, benchwork, etc. However, if yours can not be seen, I would recommend painting it white to act as a reflector/diffuser for the lighting (assuming you will have lights installed inside). Jamie EDIT: I just re-read your post and realized you are actually installing a valance up on the ceiling.
[quote user="bladeslinger"]Let me clear up one thing...YOU are right Jamie...don't listen to these other guys.[/quote] Do you ever run up towards Chattanooga? There looks to be a General Shale Brick between Inman and the 'Hooch (hopper unloading, no box car ramp) and Boral Bricks just outside I-285 (hopper unloading and box car ramps). I didn't even know about the places up on the northeast side of Atlanta. Thanks for the info. Jamie
[quote user="markpierce"]Hasn't everybody travelled on roads so narrow vehicles can only pass at periodic turnouts or at least where cars slow to a crawl while getting as close to the cliff/precipice as possible? Oh, the joy of driving backwards up a narrow, winding road along a steep, unprotected precipice to allow the uphill vehicle to pass at turnout! If not, they haven't lived.[/quote] The road going down to Hawks Nest Bridge in the New River Gorge of WV (current CSX, former
Thanks for all the good info so far everyone. Followup question regarding the outbound shipment via box car. On most (75%?) of the modern brick plants I have located, there is a loading dock where you can see box cars spotted. The photo below shows the Boral Bricks plant in Atlanta where eight box cars have been spotted for loading or unloading. I had concluded that these box cars were used for shipping outbound product, but a few posts have suggested bricks would not be shipped by rail. Trying to
Wow...what a wealth of information. I am sifting through all of the historical brick websites. The brick industry is a great one to model: lots of traffic in relation to the size of the footprint. I think I am going to have one production building/warehouse combo with a single spur track/laoding dock for box cars and a double spur track for unloading bulk materials such as sand/clay. There will also be a large storage shed for the bulk materials and a conveyor system to take the materials over the
The prototype I am modeling has a large brick plant that I want to include on the layout. I am wondering what type of rail traffic a typical brick manufacturer would have. I have good aerial views of my prototype plant as well as several ones in my local area (I never realized there were so many rail-served brick operations!) It looks like nearly all have a loading dock where skids of bricks are shipped out by boxcar. Some also have covered unloading tracks with conveyor systems. I presume this is
[quote user="CNJ831"] Incidentally, most manufacturers understand this too and commonly paint their models lighter hues than prototypically correct as well, so that the colors show up better in room lighting (ever notice that you can rarely match a good RTR model's paint with something straight out of a paint jar?) . [/quote] Probably why my SAL units from Atlas & Walthers are considerably lighter than "real" Pullmann green yet look just right. Jamie
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