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Location of My Rural Feed Mill
This hobby of Model Railroading involves lots of compromises; here is how I dealt with one of mine. The reason for this page is to apologize for locating my feed mill on the wrong side of its railroad spur track. The front side serves trucks and is the business side of the building that…
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Locomotive Ready to Leave Terminal
Here is a photo of daily work at the Yardley engine terminal. We see an engine leaving the turntable, a caboose ready to leave and a mainline train crew in conversation outside the engine hostler’s office. In the background is the new black diesel switcher (a Varney cast metal body with extra weight on…
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More Fun with Walthers Conveyor
Working with conveyors at Yardley and Holden City Team Tracks On a large layout large – industries like steel mills and coal mines with train load lots of hopper cars are popular. With a small layout, finding suitable space for active industries takes a little more imagination. Here are a few ideas I have…
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Maintenance of Way Caboose
I tried a couple times to make my own decals with the computer and blank decal paper. I used the Windows Paint Program and printed them with the home computer ink jet printer. This works because of black lettering on a light colored background. Home computers cannot print white. I used a decal making…
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Mail Pouch Barn
Originally posted on Model Railroading on the Cheap: Seen at the Cobb Corn Co. at Hillton Junction is a paper Mail Pouch Barn, a Master Mix Feed sign and the yellow Cobb Corn billboard. ??? Another image I have always been fond of is the Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco barns. They have been seen for…
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Street Patching
Patching the pavement was a fun project with a few tricks I had never tried before. I opened the tailgate on the dump truck after carefully removing the bed and cutting the tailgate open by using a fine tooth stiff back saw and knife and then gluing it back on. That activity required painting…
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Slimm’s Transfer
Slimm’s Transfer Desperation fosters creativity: Here is my super thin building for my lcl freight transfer operation which transfers less than car-load freight between highway trucks and the railroad. I was trying to get a big operation into a small space. The Slimm’s Transfer Co. transfers road to rail and rail to road less…
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Caboose Stores
There is a small building near the caboose track at Yardley Terminal that is used for storing supplies used by train crewmen. This includes items like coupler knuckles, air brake hoses, gaskets, gloves, fusses, lantern oil and flashlight batteries, first aid kit, bottled drinking water etc. We call this building the caboose stores house.…
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Close-up Details of the Productivity Illusion at the Bulldozer Factory
The use of mirrors can sometimes be rewarding if you are able to do it right. It takes some planning and practice. Here I tell of what I have learned of the subject. Here is the Ramswell Bulldozer Factory located on the top level of my layout against the wall of the train…
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Master Mix Feed Sign
I spent several years attempting to get a nice graphic of the old Master Mix Feed monogram that I remember from the 1950s. That includes looking for old correspondence with a letterhead, advertising materials etc. My uncle had a feed mill and marketed the products developed by McMillen Feeds from Iowa. The name and…
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