I got my Naperville photos uploaded to my Pbase site. There was some pretty good modeling at Naperville this year. http://www.pbase.com/dh30973/naperville05 ...
Speaking of the SD7s --(I'm sure someone has at some time)--our recent visit with Jack Fry reminded me of something I had known before. The two MStL SD7s--852...
The President and CEO of the household has given me authorization to start (finally!) construction and grading on the HO scale "Arlington, Rush River, Gaylord,...
I have posted some picture of Fosterdale under the Fosterdale folder. I asked about Fosterdale at club last night. The hobby shop owner worked at the gravel...
We use Woodland Scenics Track-Bed at the club. Easy to work with an quiet. It also doesn't dry out like cork. John Bandstra ... Yahoo! FareChase - Search...
I don't have a rr now (yet), but I used to use Tru-Scale wood roadbed. Real trains make a lot of noise and I wanted the noise. (Now we put sound chips in our...
The latest "craze" in my neck of the woods, seems to be blue styrofoam on top of the plywood, topped off with cork. Easy to work with, less messy than...
Chuck I have used cork, homasote, Homabed, Woodland Scenics foam roadbed, and extruded styrene foam (pink board). Homasote: I have handlaid as well as used...
Chuck, I can tell you what not to do. Don't glue a large piece of homasote to a 2" thick piece of styrofoam. The styrofoam is impervious to humitity changes ...
Hey Ken,, Your showing your age. I always used true scale in HO and O scale as most old timers have done. . After ballast I didn't think the sound was that...
An X-M&StL flat car (X 1258 gray and red) was in town as a tender for a small American crane that was laying track. Clark [Non-text portions of this message...
My benchwork uses no plywood. I use the pine or whatever the Swedish imported stuff is at Home depot. I basically create your classic open box grid frame...
Where were they working? Up in the north side of town by the sugar beets - installing the new connection tracks between the CGW/RI line and the old CNW...
They were working at the north end of the CGW yard by the cement plants. The are finishing the grading and building the 'snap track' switches at the Sugar...
Al, The M&STL 852 became the 300 & the 952 became the 301. When the CNW took them over they kept the same number 300 & 301 and both were Dual Control....
Merrill & LaVerne: Thanks for the replies on the SD7s. I know both units were sold to the DM&E and one has since been scrapped because of a broken frame. The...
Hey guys-- I am also on the Peoria Rails Yahoo group, which discusses rail activity in and around Peoria--both historical and current. One of the members...
For the MSTL SD7's see Don Strack's excellent CNW roster at http://utahrails.net/cnw/cnw10.php Norm Metcalf, Boulder CO ... From: "Merrill" <MPIowa@...> ...
Per the 3rd edition of Jay Reed's Comprehensive Guide To Industrial Locomotives (see www.riohondo.info ) nee MSTL 852 is now (or was) South Dakota Wheat...
Al, very interesting report, thanks for bringing it to our attention. I find it very interesting that Brighton, Iowa was mentioned in the posting as a "major"...
... I think the article said the interchange at Brighton (along with Nemo) was an interchange with a major railroad. I don't know if they mean it was a major...
There were several questions and comments about interchange traffic at Brighton. If anyone would happen to know Ron Neubauer, he was a M&StL agent at Brighton...
Hey, someone may want to check and see why the "Photos" link is not working. Over-limit on allowable space for photos? Noticed it this evening. Tom Spencer...
for a picture of the remaining SD-7, point your little pointer at: http://www.bnsf.com/markets/agricultural/elevator/bin2/ele1312.html Denny Google is a...
Tom the photo link is not broken, we have just exceeded our capacity permitted by Yahoo. It appears that when John added a folder for Fosterdale he used all...
Group we once again have space in the photo section. As full size photos can only be viewed by the moderators or person who posted the photo, per Yahoo rules,...
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