Tuesday
21Apr
A Question of Complexity - Part 3
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 08:00AM This is the third in a series of posts about complex trackwork that prompted by a note from Hector, a blog reader in Brazil
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 08:00AM Saturday
11Apr
A Question of Complexity - Part 2
Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 12:34PM [Part 1 introduces modeling possibilities for complex trackwork and the general options for modelers to create complex handlaid track.]
This post will examine why complex track occurs and consider some examples of complex track. The next post will suggest some factors that are important in creating successful complex trackwork in model form.
tagged BNSF, Complex track, Union pacific, oakland, shortline, switching in Layout Planning
BNSF, Complex track, Union pacific, oakland, shortline, switching in Layout Planning Wednesday
08Apr
A Question of Complexity - Part 1
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 09:47PM I received a note from Hector in Argentina on one of my posts about Tim Warris’s CNJ Bronx Terminal layout.
Can you tell me how to build this type of junction track?
I have a serious problem of space, and I want to build something like urban industrial tram track.
Regards from Argentina
The junction Hector is referring to is pictured at right
Tuesday
07Apr
Stege Pass in the Morning
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 06:24AM I’ve always liked the horizontal light in the morning for taking pictures.
Wednesday
01Apr
2nd Street Job
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 09:29PM It’s around 8:30pm and the Richmond Pacific afternoon shift crew is taking a break. The Cutting Lead appears to have been switched already and the train seen here on the Cutting lead will go to the 2nd Street Lead once the crew returns.
Friday
20Mar
When Flour Trucks Go Bad!
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 11:09PM A flour truck driver has a story to tell tonight after managing to tip their truck on its side in the Safeway backlot today.
Sunday
15Mar
Boxcars on the Richmond Pacific?
Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 08:46PM received a question from Miles regarding boxcars on the Richmond Pacific…
I was wondering, is there any boxcar-based traffic on the RPRC? I see reefers (does anybody make a good N scale modern reefer?) tank cars, centerbeams, cement hoppers, grain hoppers and the occasional scrap gondola.
If so, what industry is served?
Wednesday
11Mar
Sweet Railroad Music
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 08:00AM Updated on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 06:04PM by
Steve Cox
Watch this clip, then watch again, with your eyes closed.
Wednesday
11Mar
Spacing for Railroad Ties
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 01:17AM Updated on Friday, March 13, 2009 at 10:27PM by
Steve Cox
Railroad tracks are not all equal in appearance. Variation in track appearance comes from a handful of distinctive track characteristics that identify it as main, branch or siding track. Modelers can exploit this fact to drive realism on model tracks.
Saturday
07Mar
Pulling loaded gons from Sims
Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 10:03PM The RPRC is flooded with gondolas lately. As the global economy has taken a nose dive, demand for export scrap appears to have dropped. At least it has out of the Port of Richmond. Six months ago, Sims was receiving scrap and transloading to ships bound for Asia. Lately, Sims has been loading a lot of empty gondolas with scrap and sending it elsewhere by rail.
