Back in the "days of yore", Santa Fe used to haul structural steel out of a steel plant in Lemont. A string of those cars made for a long train indeed, loaded or empty.
Pictures? Who takes pictures of stinking old trains? boB Nicholson ____________________________________________________ --- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote: > > Back in the early days of my career, the studio I worked for was hired > to photograph the loading of a very long vessel on a mill gon. Each end > had a idler flat for the overhang. The fabrication company brought out > everything they had for the lift--forklifts, and couple of crawler > overheads and a wide assortment of smaller truck mounted cranes. I > imagine they had to add up the lift capacity of each lifting element to > avoid dropping it. Wish I would have borrowed (long term) the > negatives. That scene would have made a neat diorama, mainly because > 'normal' equipment was used for everything. > > The Houston area, still having a active fabrication industry still sends > out many similar loads all the time--some via rail and some via barge/ship. > > Bob Werre > PhotoTraxx > > > On 7/16/13 7:01 AM, Bud Rindfleisch wrote: > > > > Jace, Just as info, the Wisconsin Central/Regal gondola kit was > > mistakenly produced in standard gon width. I built one of these way > > back when first getting into S around 1965. I recall using the sanding > > sealer, etc and filling the hollow center sill with weights. It wasn't > > until years later that I realized the width discrepancy. > > The kit could be narrowed to proper width easy enough before assembly > > and if doing it today, I would either use thin styrene as an overlay > > (or just replace the wood altogether) on the sides and use Evergreen > > styrene for ribs with Archer rivets on the flanges. > > One very neat feature of this kit was the fact that the ends could be > > made removable, in the event that one wanted to add an extended I beam > > load with idler flats. > > Bud Rindfleisch > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
