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Somewhat, but not as severe.... and it may vary depending upon the nature of the freight yard. The driving forces are: (1) the RR is interested in maintaining the drainage from the track, (2) The safety and convenience of employees that have to walk around the yard has to be considered. Whether the yard is a "hump" yard or one where crews were often on foot "pulling pins" and connecting air hoses may make a difference in the grading. Most that I have seen have areas between the
From the Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Virginia) today: Vintage bell stolen off engine in rail yard The brass bell was taken from a locomotive owned by the National Railway Historic Society. Eddie Mooneyham figures the people who broke into the rail yard at the Roanoke Industrial Center off Ninth Street Southeast sometime last weekend or early this week knew just what they were looking for. The fenced-in rail yard houses several historic locomotives and passenger cars owned by the Roanoke chapter of the
My PO-lice experience is that the scrap hounds will steal the aluminum downspouts off of your house and will strip the copper pipe out of a vacant house, but cutting through a fence and stealing a locomotive bell is the the work of someone who views themselves as a railfan.... Having worked for the Roanoke Police Department for 30 years, I know that this theft will be assigned for follow-up, and that the local scrap dealers there will be generally of assistance. Still, not a crime with a great deal
I wanted a small frame church for the small coal-mining town of Darwin (Virginia) on my HO Winneshiek & Western Railroad. There are a number of choices out there. Walther's Cornerstone has a "Cottage Grove Church" with nice proportions, but it always seems strange to me to have to work to make plastic look like wood when one can build something out of actual wood. B.T.S. also has a nice-looking church kit, and they have good kits with modern laser-cut wood. I was also aware that
Oh, a P.S.: The photos of the original church show what appears to be a lightning rod atop the bell tower with a round insulator at the base. I cut off a pin and mounted it to simulate this. I thought about wiring the lightning rod to an electrode directly above the pulpit - That would be some positive encouragement for the Pastor to be sure to speak carefully. Bill
Get one of those beefy police officer-type figures that is holding a baton. Put him on one of the open-end platforms and tell folks that he's the OSHA Inspector. You refer to a "diaghram", which may mean diaphram... which wouldn't be used on an open vestibule car anyway. Often there was a folding metal gate (of the XX design that would collapse to one side or the other) at the end railings. When the train is stopped and passengers are loading or unloading, folks are welcome to pass
The White Pass & Yukon currently operates a number of all-steel passenger coaches that are built and painted to have the same basic appearance as old wood open vestibule cars. Clearly this is not interstate service, but it is not a problem. The staff keeps the passengers off of the end platforms when the train is in motion. Knowledgeable railfans will know that those 36-foot cars are really characteristic of the Sierra RR only, but similary designed cars could be used in excursion service. Bill
[quote user="Great Western Rwy fan"] I kitbashed this Great Western Railway Combine car using a Labelle Models kit which has been modified to be prototype to the GW coach #100. Coach #100 is the only passenger car used by the Great Western. They also used McKeen Motorcars and even used cabeese to move passengers.I am doing a complete interior using photo's of #100. And I still have underbody details to add and decals. [/quote] Nice work. Those LaBelle kits often need an extra dose of
I lived in Roanoke for 30+ years. It is not a wheat area. With the Alleghenies on one side and the Blue Ridge on the other, most farm plots within 30 miles of Roanoke are relatively small (especially in comparison to the wheat-growing areas of the upper midwest and plains). Corn, yes.... and some of that corn down in Franklin County was shipped north in Jars! The climate of SW Virginia is also not fully compatable with effective wheat growing. Some tobacco, hay for the cattle, even fields of pumpkins
Just a further thought or two: The log yard would almost certainly have an older bulldozer. With chains attached to the blade, these can easily move logs, and can lift them, too. Additionally, the log lot would be rutted and muddy, and the dozer would be used occasionally to smooth out the "roadway" through the lot. Lots of bark chips would be in that mud, even in a model. I think that there have been several older-style bulldozers in HO. I suspect that the logs would most often be piled
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