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Re: Stock pens

One rather odity is a photo in Turbines Westward showing a turbine switching the Hermosa pen. ****************************************************** Anyone found that pic yet ?? If so what page ??

By djm1141 <dmueller183@...> · #69765 ·

Re: praise for Mike Brock

Ed, The caption on Mike's lovely loco states: "Mike's model was featured in the February 2004 issue of Railmodel Journal, 'Superdetailing the Genesis USRA 'Light' 4-6-2 Pacific as ACL Class P-5-A.'"

By Lawrence Rast · #69764 ·

Re: Adding weight to a stock car

Mike If you want steam era cow chips (We less euphemistically inclined Britons talk of cow shit) go to a living history museum where they have preserved cows from past history. Remember the colour

By Philip Dove <philip.dove@...> · #69763 ·

Re: praise for Mike Brock

That'll be at http://s-clmodeler.aclsal.org/ Volume 1, Issue 3. Beautiful work, Mike. -Clark Cooper

By Clark Cooper · #69762 ·

Re: praise for Mike Brock

Oooooo-kay. I deleted the link to the SCL modeler pages, and NOW I'd like to look. Could somebody send it to me or post it on the list again, please? TIA SGL

By Schuyler Larrabee · #69761 ·

I am not going to type Chips-Ahoy!

I will note that Kanamodel Products has an ad for a new stock yard for cattle in transit. I think that it is a first, the others appear to be for origination of livestock loads for all of our

By gary laakso · #69760 ·

praise for Mike Brock

Mike that locomotive in SCL modeler is terrific. And it's plastic. Could you think of some venue where you can explain what you did? The traditional modeling magazines are apparently persona non

By ed_mines · #69759 ·

computer wizard

Could some computer wizards please contact me off line? Ed

By ed_mines · #69758 ·

Re: Chips

Mike asked - What about sheep? Geeez. What color would their chips be? The chips are more like giant rabbit pellets than cattle chips, and darkish brown, depending on the species, time of year, age

By Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@...> · #69757 ·

Re: Adding weight to a stock car

rarely good enough to notice the Ah, Malcolm, you're just begging for smart remarks about your beady eyes . . . From one who should know: SGL

By Schuyler Larrabee · #69756 ·

Re: Chips

I grew up forking and shoveling "chips". But there is no way on earth I am getting into another color discussion!!! I once saw a UP stock car which had come into Germantown Md on the B&O with a

By boyds1949 <E27ca@...> · #69754 ·

Stock pens

Doug Harding writes: A railroad stockpen with a history of disease Hmmmm. The pen I modeled is actually quite small. In fact, the real one I modeled was at Sherman, itself. Another was at Hermosa but

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #69752 ·

Re: Chips

Mike, you asked if the stockpens/stockyards were cleaned very often? Yes they were cleaned, quite often, and for the same reason stockcars were cleaned, to prevent disease. A railroad stockpen with a

By Douglas Harding <dharding@...> · #69751 ·

Re: Chips

Laramie Larry...who apparently knows about such things...writes: "Mike, antelope doo-doo looks nothing like cattle chips. I live at the foot of Sherman Hill and would be happy send you samples of

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #69750 ·

Re: Chips

Frank Greene says: Therefore, Wellll, of course I have some UP stock cars and some of other RR's as well. All of the cars will, naturally, be from 1953 but I can arrange for some of the cattle to be

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #69749 ·

Re: Chips

--- In STMFC@..., "Mike Brock" <brockm@...> wrote: "And, besides, there's those &%*($$ analopes that were and still are found on the Hill. I can't tell if the chip is from analope or

By laramielarry <ostresh@...> · #69748 ·

Re: Chips

Wow! What's this the 3rd or 4th color discussion we've had in a week? Or, does it only seem that way? LOL Now that analope and antelope have been discounted from the equation, we only have color to

By Frank Greene · #69747 ·

Re: Chips

People are overlooking the seasonal variations in color.? New spring grass yields a greener product.? Meticulous modelers will want to address this issue. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

By Richard Townsend · #69746 ·

Re: Chips

This sure sounds like a bunch of "Buffalo Chips" to me. The hybridization of feed hasn't changed the colors of forage and grazing grasses enough to alter the chip colors. Until commercial livestock

By Charles Hladik · #69755 ·

Re: Can you identify this train?

Paul Catapano wrote: In LA DIvision TT 222, effective Oct. 28, 1962, trains 833/834 were still the Ventura sub connnections of Coast Division freights, as Shawn Beckert reported for 1955.

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #69745 ·

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