Category: Industries and Action
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Shipping Grain in Box Cars
I like modeling the steam era because of my memories. Today, grain like wheat and corn are shipped in covered hopper cars. In the 1950s the railroads used 40-foot boxcars for this. Some of us remember how grain was shipped in boxcars. Here is my attempt to replicate some of those scenes from my…
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Coal Tipple
My coal tipple is just a Walthers paper flat along the room wall, disguised with hand painted sky board background and a ‘paper’ wood board fence. These were pasted on to a board to help hold them straight. This industry is for loading hopper cars; I have other industrial spaces for emptying them. It’s…
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The industries and actions found on the Y&H
Stories about the industries found on my room sized layout and their perceived activities. This chapter will show how you don’t have to have a big layout to have lots of freight operation. Parts of this chapter were done a few years earlier but the story still has value in support of the overall theme…
Model Railroading on the Cheap 