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[quote user="P&Slocal"]There used to be this green stuff that came on a roll. Kinda like pipecleaner, but with long bristles. I used to use that cut in half for evergreens. Thing is that most of your evergreens were all the same size using this stuff. I keep wanting to call it chenille ir something like that. Last time in a craft store I couldn't find it. Not sure they make it anymore.[/quote] You should want to call it chenille, as it was bumpy chenille (although searching online
I guess this shouldn't turn into a 'wishlist', but I believe one thing will be wdespread application of the wireless radio control systems which are becoming common enough in garden railroads to the smaller scales (e.g. HO & N) What's happening w/ custom photo mural backdrops? Are there services yet where you can specify an era and perhaps an area/direction (say Newark - 1970s - from Waverly Yard southward - OK, this is just an example), and get a photo-mural to cover a specified
Now if we can only convince them to do some 'post-1990' stuff - I think the latest model car they did so far is the 1978 Impala, correct? So many nice 'vintage' car models have come out over the past decade that I just gave up and am building a wall-hanging display box to show off the CMW and Ricko and Atlas etc. stuff pre-1970; post 1970 will go on the layout, except whenever I feel like modeling a classic car show in a parking lot (gotta find a DJ figure to put under a canopy tent
Well, a lot of new rolling stock around that era is still around, but the older stuff from the 1950s/early 1960s is gone. You could get away w/ such 1960 oddities such as Pregnant Whale 6-axle tank-cars and huge Tobacco boxcars with skylights. Also keep in mind is what the rolling stock may or may not have in that era (putting aside livery) : ACI plate existed (those plates w/ colored bars - an early attempt to track rolling stock) consequently, no AEI tags (small grey transponders) Consolidated
[quote user="ericsp"]Tomato products are shipped in them.[/quote] Can't quite make out from that view if you mean fruits/vegatables (which I often see at the supermarket - these crates are usually slated, and so by necessity would be planks not plywood), or products such as tomato paste and ketchup (which seem to be more cardboard box bound) I've found the responses so far to be interesting and informative, and probably quite helpful. I guess my view on freight containers, while
[quote user="Dave-the-Train"]Most of the time we just see a box with the livery of the RR, trucking co or manufacturer. Often the only times we get to see the load is when they are shifted in or out by forklift. I can't think of many places where loaded crates are left outside... barrels - that is steel drums - and IBCs do get lined up outside both full and empty. Most times I see crates outside for any length of time they are the empties either waiting to go back or be recycled. [
I found this concept interesting, as at first I thought by the 1950s cattle would be processed only at the slaughterhouse (pardon me, ' abattoir' ), and the resulting carcasses shipped to individual small butcher shops (among other receivers such as markets), so the butcher wouldn't even have a stockpen. However, I then realized that live butchers exists today, in the 21st century, to sell freshly slaughtered meat to retail customers - 1 is not far from Jamaica station in Queens, NY
So I recieved the Presier 'Good Shed' figure set, and this included besides the figures some really nice pallet jacks (which resemble those made even today), and lift trucks (a little more wonky, but close enough to some prototypes. It also includes some bales of something (OK), wooden barrels (GRRR), and wooden crates made of planks. It got me wondering, those beloved plank crates of not just model railroading, but stage props, home storage decor, cartoons, etc - are they used in any significant
[quote user="Dave-the-Train"]A lot of crates now have external metal skeletons of various kinds while others have plastic corner caps or strips covering the whole corner for all or some of the corners.[/quote] I definitely saw a lot of that style offered (the metal edged one - indeed, I think the image I linked too is that style) when I was googling wood crate shipping. - same w/ the pallet like bottoms. Still wondering if I can use bare metal foil strips to mimic the metal edges... [quote
Since we are discussing 2cycle vs 4cycle, I have read that the 4cycle engined locomotives don't 'load' as fast as an equivalent 2cycled one, so that acceleration is consequently poorer. Is this, as a rule, true (or was it at one time)?
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