Don't know if it's an overlap, or if there already was a group, but this turned up on one of my RR modeling lists this AM. Someone may be interested. ...
"The song side of the tracks. For those living near a busy railroad hub, noise is in the ear of the beholder." "For many residents of the area [Clearing], the...
Hi All, Sorry for the cross posting! I've created a new Yahoo Group with the idea of making it a clearing house for any type of railroad/model railroad event...
Recently I watched a tank car labeled "corn syrup" and anothers labeled "corn sweetener" both going to the same industry, a fruit juice bottler. Is there a...
... labeled "corn sweetener" both going to the same industry, a fruit juice bottler. Is there a difference in these commodities? What is each used for? ... ...
Hi Owner & all. I've just found your group after joining the Oil-Chemical yahoogroups. I've been a Railroad Modeler im "HO" for the past 35 yrs, mostly always...
... <gregory.peet@...> wrote: Recently I watched a tank car labeled "corn syrup" and anothers labeled "corn sweetener" both going to the same industry, a fruit...
Regarding estimating train speed, one thing you can do with the more recent QSI/BLI engines is to press F10. You will get an announcement of the train speed....
"Recently I watched a tank car labeled "corn syrup" and another labeled "corn sweetener" both going to the same industry, a fruit juice bottler. Is there a...
Bob, In the plants that you have seen, is there just a steam-supply line to the tank car, or is there a steam return connection as well at the unloading...
what about the chemical plant for a paper mill? Not the mill itself - but the adjacent plant that produces the "liquor" and other chemicals used to dissolve...
Hi Jim: ... It's a good idea, but it suggests that the paper mill is right there too - that's kinda big for an industrial park. I'm guessing that if the...
You can tell by the smell...paper mills use hydrochloric acid in the digesters..jc5729 ... what about the chemical plant for a paper mill? Not the mill itself...
Trevor One thing I've noticed is that Fertilizer plants come in all sizes. There is a neat co-op one with it's own single engine RR hear in Calif. That's on...
This is good info! I'm going to model a similar industry for my N-gauge layout. A question for you: The tank cars that are received, do they come from one...
... <hultman@...> wrote: SNIP Unloading consisted of connecting the steam supply piping and the unloading pipe to the car's bottom outlet, heating the syrup to...
... I'm planning to model HFCS shipping/receiving in some way on my layout also. Here is a link to a plant in New York state. As I understand the operation,...
... Obviously your nose needs tuning. I'm not aware of any pulp mills that use hydrochloric acid to dissolve the wood. Depending on the type of wood they're...
For sure, you can't touch a blue flagged car! sometimes you can get away with switching out any cars between it (them) and the switch. Sometimes a whole track...
I have decided to use Starting Tractive Effort or STE to determine how much each engine can pull on my layout. Here is how I set it up every thing is based on...
... To clarify things, cars are not themselves blue-flagged; the track on which they're located, is. The proper procedure when a track is blue-flagged is to...
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Apr 6, 2006 4:18 pm
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... However, mustn't the blue flag ONLY be removed by the person who put it there? Cheers Roger T. Home of the Great Eastern Railway ...
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What about the handing off of the responsibility at shift change? We used to have this happen back in the late '50's The lead inspector coming on duty assumed...
Thanks for the links. I'm not planning to do corn syrup, I have a meadery in mind that would take honey from tank cars. (Yes, they could probably by the honey...
... Not PERSON, but "craft," e.g., car inspector. For example, a track is inspected during the afternoon shift, but for some reason, that car inspector does...
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