... refines out the gold and other impurities, and then pours 99.9% pure copper for pipes, etc. The copper arrives by special flat cars with permanently...
Tom, The stuff he is looking for ships completely different. Usually in gons. Which refinery are you affiliated with? I'm curious about the leaf copper. I...
Mike, I have uploaded two pics of Anodes being hauled. They are in the photos section under 'copper hauling'. I transfered them from another list I'm on....
... sectional ... and layout. ... Cincinnati next ... [snip specs] ... play. If ... ACad .dxf ... a drawing or ... You might consider building the legs so...
Try the "Steel" Yahoo Group. If there aren't some already there, I'm sure we can find some in our personal files. John Gallagher "Life only demands from you...
These are anodes, but the local copper refiners call them "leaf", probably as a slang. It is ASARCO here in Amarillo. The copper loaded in AZ comes here for...
1986 GCOR, Rule S-227 This is the "Absolute Block Register Territory" rule. Rather than ask a bunch of specific questions that turn out to be mostly...
... This cover's a "Freight Train and Light Locomotive", but a "Mail" train (all passenger headend equipment) would still be OK? Pat LaTorres I can't...
... I would also be right interested. One of my industries manufactures brass water fittings from scrap and ingots. Clay The Our Valve Co. - there's no...
... =================== From what I make of the rule it was/is used on branch lines where you wanted to not have to specifically grant authority, but didn't ...
Michael and Dave H.: The SP used this system on a couple of branches; specifically one out of Ventura called the Ojai Branch. And yes, there was a register at...
... From: "Terry Harrison" <nkpman@...> ... This cover's a "Freight Train and Light Locomotive", but a "Mail" train (all passenger headend equipment)...
... Evening all, This sounds like what we used to call 'blister copper'. Crudely fire refined
copper about 2' x 3' and about 4 inch thick in the shape of an...
Okeydokey! I will go photograph at the earliest available time - but not today! We just got 5-7 inches of blowing sleet/snow, and the whole world is white...
Okeydokey! I will go photograph at the earliest available time - but not today! We just got 5-7 inches of blowing sleet/snow, and the whole world is white...
So what??? my pictures, I took the effort to put in the photo section weren't good enough??? sheesh! (g) Tom. are the ones in my pics the same ones? They...
Hi all, We are starting to look at what we would like to do for this coming year's meet at the Model Railroad Club Inc. sometime in June. I have some of the ...
There was a discussion in the most recent Dispatcher's Office about filling in train sheets. For what it's worth, I thought I'd add a few brief comments on...
How did different railroads handle keeping a sheet for more than one line by one DS? A train from A to Z on the main stem is pretty easy. All the stations are...
Usually branch lines under control of the same desk were on the same page, just set apart below the main subdivision from which they branch. You would see...
While not a gondola, RJ Corman is moving some huge aluminum ingots from the plant in Berea, KY on small unit trains (25 to 30 cars) to an aluminum plant in the...
Nice pics, Jon. How would the ingots be shipped across country to a foundry on the East Coast? I would think that a gon or flat would be subject to valuable...
I am modeling a small New England foundry. I will be receiving ingots by 40' gondola 3 at a time. Because of the weigh restrictions of the ingots 3 or 4 is...
OOPS! I am talking about copper, which apparently has smaller [and more valuable] ingots. Years ago I worked in a scrap yard for a while. We would melt down...
I don't wish to disparage anybody's railroad,as the CNW was a good outfit, but with regard to that rule someone quoted which prohibited running freight train...
... one line by one DS? Two basic ways to do this you either: 1) set up the train sheet with separate station columns, one for each route. See an example of...
