... MBS -- Manual Block Signal System -- A block system indicated in the Timetable in which the use of each block is governed by a Form M. (MNR Definition...
Milwaukee will be only the second convention I have attended at which I am also a member of the OP-SIG. As such I am not familiar with the normal / traditional...
... The only facility I knew of which dealt with rock and gravel was considerably later than the period under consideration (70's), however, in that...
... Try the reference division of your local library. Alternatively, if you are in a large city, ask the reference desk of your local library to find out for...
An online search will turn up pages of materials, but most are from an earlier era. FWIW, it's interesting to see how little some areas changed over the years,...
Modelers will gather on April 23 & 24 for the Central Ohio Prototype Modelers Meet. The clinic line up is not complete but there are some presentations are...
So, I'm modeling the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1987, a freelance shortline serving the paper industry. In my research I've found several references to the...
Mike, It may have to do with a way to purchase it, rather than shipping. Seller loads car and is paid by weight. easy way to get weight is weight car at...
During the last years of steam at Woodsville NH on the B&M, coal was put in the tenders using a conveyor between the fueling track and a track for the hoppers....
I have used this site to find the exact location of railway right-of-ways. Oyu may have to pay a fee, But when I was researching the FtDDM&S in Iowa, I found...
... I use to pick up coal once or twice a year and I often was lucky enough to get a fresh car of coal so I was loaded with the conveyor. The end was simply...
Mike, Definitely done for trucked in loads to a pulp & paper mill. Trucks are weighed before and after delivery of logs or chips. For a train, I would think...
Here's the link (and a photo if it makes it through the filter) showing an old-time coal conveyor. The smaller unit which Peter described would sometimes be...
... I can recall several instances of retail coal yards with conveyor systems ass David described, which had walls, pile dividers really, arranged like the...
... Hmm, good point. I know it USED to be purchased by the cord, and a standard 40' gon held 40 cords, and the loggers could cut 44 cords a day. So there was...
We have a tiny siding in Inola, OK that used to have a feed store. Now they just have a cement pad and one of these under hopper conveyors to load directly...
If you think about it, It 's much more efficient to weight it than somehow figure up the cords. In some places the same scale could even be used for inbound...
I forgot to mention, this one is mounted in place of a tie, just below the rails, on a stub end spur, so the loco would never pass over it. I'm not sure how...
Chuck, The grain ones usually attach to the hopper doors. These seems (especially now) as pretty standard for food or other contaminatable commodities....
I read a post on a DCC group discussing consisting in the DCC sense. The suggestion was made to break the consist, do the work with one engine, then...
Locally, it was often the practice to cut off a single unit for switching when they had more tan two units. However out on the run this seldom happened. On...
Pre-Staggers, most rail traffic moved on a schedule of rates that were based on various weights per car, the highest weight resulting in the lowest charge per...
It was not all that common to disassemble a pair of units out on the road, unless there were weight restrictions of the track segment involved. What was more...
