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Re: Cleaning stock cars - was - Re: Re: Adding weight to a stock car

Ned Carey asks: "Were stock cars cleaned just after unloading and on the return trip home be clean? Or would they return home dirty and be cleaned before loading? In other words should empty cars be

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #69779 ·

Re: Cleaning stock cars - was - Re: Re: Adding weight to a stock car

Standard practice on the western RRs, where stock cars could travel long distances without going off line (or very far off line) was to clean stock cars at the nearest cleaning facility to the point

By Richard Hendrickson · #69778 ·

Cleaning stock cars - was - Re: Re: Adding weight to a stock car

Were stock cars cleaned just after unloading and on the return trip home be clean? Or would they return home dirty and be cleaned before loading? In other words should empty cars be modeled as clean

By Ned Carey <nedspam@...> · #69777 ·

Sunshine Meet in S Cal in March

Thanks Robert!

By Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@...> · #69776 ·

Sunshine Meet in S Cal in March

Thanks Tom - I'll try to get there Saturday. I found out about Buena Park after the flights were booked - we leave for home Sunday a.m. Rob

By Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@...> · #69775 ·

Re: Sunshine Meet in S Cal in March

Rob Kirkham wrote: It's PERRIS, not Parris, and it's on I215 south of Riverside, exit 17. It's a big swap meet at the Orange Empire Railway Museum, with the gate opening to the public at 9am, as I

By Tom Madden <tgmadden@...> · #69774 ·

Re: Adding weight to a stock car

Philip Dove wrote: Well, you have the contents down pat (so to speak) but the form in which they are deposited is the reason for the separate word "chip." This was sometimes done IN

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #69773 ·

Re: Sunshine Meet in S Cal in March

Charlie, How does one get on Martin's WEst Coast Mailing List? -- Bill Keene Irvine, CA

By William Keene <wakeene@...> · #69772 ·

Re: Stock pens

Dave Mueller writes: "--- In STMFC@..., "Mike Brock" <brockm@...> wrote: One rather odity is a photo in Turbines Westward showing a turbine switching the Hermosa

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #69770 ·

Re: Sunshine Meet in S Cal in March

Rob It is at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris,CA http://www.oerm.org/ for maps, driving directions and hours. Robert Cheeks Riverside,CA Rob Kirkham wrote:

By Robert Cheeks <Rcheeks666@...> · #69771 ·

Re: Sunshine Meet in S Cal in March

Can someone post where to go in Parris, CA, to find this show? I'll happen to be in CA at the time and would like to drop in - if I can find the place. Rob Kirkham Vancouver, BC, Canada

By Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@...> · #69769 ·

Re: Sunshine Meet in S Cal in March

Martin just got home on Thursday and he is going to get the California mailing out this week. He is coming out and will be at Parris on March1, Buena Park on March 2, Winterail in Stockton on March 8

By charles slater · #69768 ·

Re: praise for Mike Brock

While brass is a no-no I have may photos that show whitish wheels (usually just one) on engines and sometimes cars. Looks like whitewash and was use to magna flux (check for cracks in the wheels).

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #69767 ·

Re: praise for Mike Brock

Lawrence Rast and others have commented positively on the ACL 4-6-2 shown in the outstanding Seaboard-Coastline Modeler headed by Generalissimo and STMFC member John Golden. I have to question,

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #69766 ·

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 ·

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