My new layout is a simple transfer yard with some online industries. Cars will come in on the Erie side for further transfer to the Lackawanna and vice versa, and these could be anything including DL&W empties, Erie empties, loads coming and going from other roads to the Erie or Lackawanna, etc. All cars have to be built prior to 1952 and I have models already that fit the era. The online industries would use meat reefers, boxcars, and express cars from around the Eastern and Southern parts of the country. I'd like to add some well-detailed outside-braced braced and war emergency cars as well.
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
Anybody have any Procor Pressure Flow Hoppers made by Intermountain i have several and that is one that don't have a purpose got them because the different look's and to me a cross between a hopper and tank car.
Russell
mbinsewihe loads, and empties from your industries need to go to other places, and then come back as a load, or empty, whatever the case may be.
Mike,Indeed..Once a car has been switched and unloaded/loaded it then gets returned to the interchange and removed from the layout.New cars arrive on the interchanged daily..This interchange varies from 1-8 cars and there are some days no cars arrive and the only thing the crew does is take cars from the industries to the interchange. This emulates the backbone of railroading---serving customers.
A ISL serves the end reciever whose loads orginated elsewhere and the shipper sends cars elswhere...I will also mention none of the industries recieves cars from each other since I model a industrial park or urban industrial area.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
csxnsAnybody have any Procor Pressure Flow Hoppers made by Intermountain...
I have a couple. They are loaded at a drilling fluids plant on my layout, so they actually have a role with a modeled customer.
Rob Spangler
I been getting maxi container cars, and auto racks. To build a small yard, but I'll just get them as my fast freight. In the future I'm trying to get bulkend flats, centerbeams and some other cars that don't interchange within my manifest freights.
The only interchange traffic will be on local. I got a lot of boxcars and insulted boxcars.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
mbinsewi...In a past thread, about small layouts? Not too long ago,I posted a complete end to end view of what I have.
While I was allowed to view only one picture in photobucket, I did check-out the link to the other thread, and it was well worth the effort. Nicely done!
Wayne
angelob6660 I got a lot of boxcars and insulted boxcars.
If you stopped telling them they have ugly ends maybe they wouldn't be insulted.
dknelson csxns Track fiddler grain hopper cars. Especially the two bay ones. Don't think grain shippers ship grain in two bays. I believe the C&NW two bay centerflows that were painted yellow were assigned to ADM service, so I assume some sort of grain was shipped in them. (Someone once told me that if you see a C&NW covered hopper painted yellow, think of it as grain because beer and corn are yellow.) But it is true most of the two bays were used for heavier loads that would be too much weight for the larger covered hoppers. The CNW had some in gray that I assume were for sand or cement or such. Heavy and dense. They also had some in a deep green - not sure of the loads for those. I do know the yellow paint CNW used tended to fade rather quickly. Dave Nelson
csxns Track fiddler grain hopper cars. Especially the two bay ones. Don't think grain shippers ship grain in two bays.
Track fiddler grain hopper cars. Especially the two bay ones.
Don't think grain shippers ship grain in two bays.
I believe the C&NW two bay centerflows that were painted yellow were assigned to ADM service, so I assume some sort of grain was shipped in them. (Someone once told me that if you see a C&NW covered hopper painted yellow, think of it as grain because beer and corn are yellow.)
But it is true most of the two bays were used for heavier loads that would be too much weight for the larger covered hoppers. The CNW had some in gray that I assume were for sand or cement or such. Heavy and dense. They also had some in a deep green - not sure of the loads for those. I do know the yellow paint CNW used tended to fade rather quickly.
Dave Nelson
Funny you mentioned this Dave. I like the way the green and gray hoppers complement each other together. Apparently MTL thought so too because they were selling them in sets in N scale at one time. I picked up a few sets on eBay when the price was right and haven't even unwrapped them yet.
John Mock I'm kind of a big fan of Wide Open Spaces myself after growing up on a very large lake in the wilderness most of my life.
I like the sight of Trains winding through the forest mountainsides or in the wide open spaces of a country or desert scene.
I have to stop on the shoulder of a two lane highway sometimes or I would soon become a menace. I have to watch them come through the scenery. I think of it the same way on a layout.
Thanks TF
My whimsical Superior Detritus boxcar I built many years ago for my 1890, 1900 eara railroad.
Superior Detritus boxcar. #238
Very detailed wood kit.
Full Circle Models, NY.
Long out of production.
Still have all the instruction sheets and magazine page.
I put smaller Kadee couplers on it many years ago.
The nature of the products shipped? Diacoustic infusoria = a lot of noise Basic Balunium Ores = a lot of coal dust Air-Float Abrasives = smoke and cinders Frangible Ceramics = breakable pottery Sand and Gravel = self explanatory Being of Superior quality, obviously these were all shipped in crates or barrels. Workers had to put cotton in their ears when opening a barrel of Diacoustic Infusoria!!
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Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.