Schist, that's gneiss. Your comment in the blog post about the ads is a bit off-center - the ads don't always show up. — ^<@<.@* hat less at less point at star }"_# | back brace double base pound spac

I just snarfed 'em all; I have Firefox[0] configured to default to download pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, and other formats and to ask me where to save them. [0] I refuse to have anything to do with *spi

Hogging as applied to vessels is what happens to the ends, which are less buoyant than the middle - they sag. The hog chains are to reduce the hogging. Long, faiy sharp wooden hulls in later days had

The Instrctables web site has a project for a low cost CAD/CAM PC board router using a hand rotary tool like the Dremel. Modify it to manipulate a paintbrush. — ^<@<.@* }"_# | -@$&/_% !( @|=> ;`+$?^?

Crappy job, indeed, especially if the loading or unloading happened with human muscle power. My late Dad worked at the Woodland, Yolo County, CA Spreckels plant up though the early 1950s and I can rem

Thank you; I’d forgotten. What I still remember is that San Francisco’s Fort Mason was the Army’s port of embarkation for the Pacific, and State Belt rails brought freight in from WP and Santa Fe car

MSTS Forever! A good friend, Cdr USN Ret., did his time in that service. I need to forward the railbound tugs images to him. — ^<@<.@* }"_# | -@$&/_% !( @|=> ;`+$?^? ,#"~|)^G

That’s an impressive pair of shots. I can envision cooking up a master for casting a load of truck frames on a rapid prototyper of some sort, and emitting trainloads of loads from any resulting molds.

The rib in the close-up photos upthread looked a whole lot like a piece of rail to me, especially at the bottom end where the web was cut away. Anybody got a definitive statement (with citation) on th

Hotaling’s bonded whisky warehouse, purported to be the largest in the west, survived efforts to create a firebreak in the aftermath of the 1906 seism and holocaust which destroyed a goodly part of Sa

On Jun 7, 2019, at 07:36, Daniel A. Mitchell <danmitch@tir.com> wrote: […] > Precise power tools for this kind of work are available, but not in hobby shops or home-centers, and they are EXPENSIVE. Th

I de-emphasize the trains, stating that I simulate historical transportation systems. Drilling deeper to railroads, I state that the trains are merely actors on the stages I mess with. — ^<@<.@* }"_#

The straddle loader between the Cadillac and the flatcar takes me back...

That does deep-end[sic] in part on the scale. I know some obsessive sorts working in larger outdoor scales who might. -- ^<@<.@* }"_# | -@$&/_% !(^I@|=> ;`+$?^? ,#"~|)^G

I started a few months after the Tidewater Central artickles[sic][0] appeared in Model Railroader, building my own version, using all the products[1] named in the artickles[0]. Eventually I lost, in t

[other spotting features appreciated] Thank you for updating my old-rons; after I posted I groveled the web for pictures, which overloaded my chagrin circuits. -- Chagrin, chagrin, yaddida yaddida...

I had a Roco Minimovers[0] model of what I remember to be a Letourneau scraper[1], possibly a Tournapull-with-Carryall. Unfortunately Deep Storage™ is difficult of access for the nonce or I'd capture

On Jan 7, 2019, at 5:55 AM, Dennis Storzek wrote: [...] > But I agree with you, the index is less useful than it has been in the past. I don't think I've used it in two or three years. About a year an

I suspect that Kalmbach have outsourced much of their web-based applications *and* customer support. [rant deleted -- not enough room in the margins of this message...] -- "I think we are pole vaultin

Concrete railroad car, concrete ship, big deal. This'n is adjacent to the ESPEE Santa Cruz branch in Aptos, Ca: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Palo_Alto>. The cement which went into the concrete wh