Just leafed through my 11/95 copy of trains. On page 86 there's a picture of an entire freight train (cbnp roll by). Noticed a six- car cut of boxcars...
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John Van Buekenhout
jvanbuek@xxxxxx.xxx
Feb 1, 1999 6:28 am
What is the mathematical formula for calculating curve tangents?...
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Darius Chagnon
dchagnon@xxxxxxxx.xxx...
Feb 1, 1999 2:17 pm
... From: Cpt. Lloydy <lenglel@...> To: Ry-ops-industrialSIG@onelist.com <Ry-ops-industrialSIG@onelist.com> Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 10:26 PM ...
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lawrence jackman
ljack70117@xxxxxxxxx....
Feb 1, 1999 5:59 pm
I do not consider paper is made from trees. There are special trees grown to make paper from like pulp wood, cottonwood and ect. They don't use lumber trees...
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Ken Pebesma
kpebesma@xxx.xxxxxx.x...
Feb 1, 1999 6:23 pm
There is a similar operation in Whitby, ON. They load scrap paper into NS boxcars that have delivered new stock from a mill somewhere in the Southeast. The...
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Andrew Baird
baracing@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 9:38 pm
Looking for track plans from the paper mill in Grand Falls Nfld. (Abitibi-Price) For the 1970''s. Thank You Andrew Baird...
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Miracle Castings Inc.
miracle-castings@xx.x...
Feb 2, 1999 1:13 am
I know the cars you mean. I always see them parked by the side of the 401 when I go by there on my way to Kingston. I always wondered where they came from...
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Grant Morgan
Morgang@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 2, 1999 6:05 am
The IKO company, a part of the shingle industry uses reclaimed paper, including cardboard, as well as clean construction site lumber scrap to make the paper...
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John Van Buekenhout
jvanbuek@xxxxxx.xxx
Feb 2, 1999 6:46 am
IKO has a plant in the St. Boniface area of Winnipeg. Actually it would be a great model of a trackside industry for a model railroad. It is very compact....
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Peter Bowers
pbeservx@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 2, 1999 7:26 pm
... IKO has a plant in Hawksbury, Ontario also. The grit for the surface comes in by rail. Now, as each shingle has a combination of different coloured grits...
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Ken Pebesma
kpebesma@xxx.xxxxxx.x...
Feb 2, 1999 6:02 pm
And another in Brampton, ON. It receives occasional tank cars of asphalt, but most comes by truck. Also, wood chips and grit are received by truck, but for...
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jdhofmockel@xxxx.xxx
Feb 2, 1999 8:24 am
... Isn't that "slag" material what they call "fly ash"? I notice the Mid American Energy plant just outside of Council Bluffs keeps some covered hoppers...
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Miracle Castings Inc.
miracle-castings@xx.x...
Feb 2, 1999 9:29 pm
I too would be interested in where fly ash comes from. RailLink Southern Ontario ships many covered hopper loads of it from Stelco in Nanticoke up to ...
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Hudson Leighton
hudsonl@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 2, 1999 9:39 pm
... Fly ash usually comes out of the Baghouse (filters) of a powerplant, It is used in several things Cinderblocks comes to mind. ...
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Chris McKinnon
chrism@xxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 1:03 am
... I think the black grit comes from the 3M (ex Ontario Rock Company) quarry east of Havelock On. Chris...
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Ed Barry
barry@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 12:30 am
This was posted on the Ry-ops-industrialSIG list ... Does anyone have photo's of Tar or Asphat tanks from the 1950's to the 1990's. Were the older tanks...
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john falconer
falconer@xx.xxxxxxxxx...
Feb 3, 1999 1:44 am
Is fly ash another name for "baghouse fume"? I remember this term mentioned in a list of commodities carried in covered hoppers, in Stafford Swain's article...
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PPfoten211@xxx.xxx
Feb 3, 1999 1:34 am
I hope someone out there on this list can help me. I am looking to model an industry that receives loads in two bay covered hoppers. A friend told me to ...
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Walt Gay
waltrail@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 2:38 am
... Cement comes in two bay covered hoppers. Cement plants get stone and aggregate as well as sand. Walt...
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George Willard
willardga@xxxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 2:50 am
I don't know anything about the gypsum, but In Toano, Virginia on the CSX (nee C&O) there is a Owens Illinois bottle making plant. It makes Budwiser beer...
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Mark William Hemphill
mhemph1@xxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 3:06 am
... I don't think so. I have always seen baghouse fumes referring to particulate matter collected at smelters, and fly ash referring to dust collected at...
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Mark William Hemphill
mhemph1@xxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 3:21 am
... A gypsum wallboard and plaster plant can be quite large, generating 10 to 20 loads a day or more of gypsum wallboard, bagged plaster, and taping compound....
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C. Jackson Wyatt III
cjwyatt@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 4:07 am
... Fly ash is considered a hazardous material and contaminates the covered hopper that it is shipped in. Apparently it is OK though, if it is included in a...
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C. Jackson Wyatt III
cjwyatt@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 4:19 am
... IIRC from my Santa Fe days, U.S. Gypsum had a plant around Sweetwater, TX that shipped gypsum in covered hoppers. We maintained a shippers pool of covered...
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PWhite0130@xxx.xxx
Feb 3, 1999 7:26 am
... It is the CSX that connects to the WW. The WW also had 2 bays and someone brought out these cars in HO a while back. Peter...
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PWhite0130@xxx.xxx
Feb 3, 1999 7:32 am
... Here is a list of typical commodities shipped in covered hoppers: Alumina, Ammonium nitrate, Ammonium phosphate, Barley, Bauxite, Boric acid, Bran, Carbon...
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jdhofmockel@...
Feb 3, 1999 1:20 am
... Ooooh, Ooooh........."> Diatomaceous earth,..............." That reminds me: I see a covered hopper from time to time near where I work in Council Bluffs,...
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Peter Bowers
pbeservx@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 8:59 pm
One of the things I have been playing around with is how to generate the waybills on model railway layouts. You have a few options. One way, you can use...
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Miracle Castings Inc.
miracle-castings@xx.x...
Feb 3, 1999 9:19 pm
... Hi! We see GWB shipped from a gypsum plant near Hagarsville, Ont., but they get their gypsum from an outside source, as their local mine ran out. I'll ...
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PPfoten211@xxx.xxx
Feb 4, 1999 1:27 am
In a message dated 2/3/99 5:08:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, Ry-ops- industrialSIG@onelist.com writes: << it arrives at the GWB plant in open-top hoppers as...
