What do you use for rolling stock? I prefer bay window caboose's to bring up the rear of my trains. Lumber is major source of revinue, so I have box cars and flats. I plan on a cement plant and will be using covered hoppers. Also I plan on grain coming in for the area ranchers and dairies. There won't be much call for tank cars, auto racks or TOF equipment.
Greg; I have sorta settled into watching the big cranes working wrecks, building bridges, and load/unloading flats, etc. So no I have made up some MOW equipment. I have all kinds of cabooses, cabeeses, crummies, conductor's offices, and privies. My present interest is in switching, MOW, and running rotary snow plows up to clear one of the four passes I have. Most work is done around my roundhouse, but I have a main line, two short lines, and a logging road to keep serviced, so a lot of switching. Can run four trains at once, but that can get tricky, makes it fun! ------------------ Watash
My Frisco boxcars have hauled a lot of beer out of St. Louis! ------------------ Ship It On The FRISCO! | IAMOKA.com
<font color="336633">you name it i got it ...... with the exception of Iron ore and Coal, i did (have still got) sone coal hoppers for power in one of my industries but have since switched to propaine</font> ------------------ Matthew wheres all the C636's???? stickymonk.com Matts Photo gallery [This message has been edited by StickyMonk (edited 06 October 2000).]
STACKS, FLATS AND RACKS! Modern and rebuilt boxcars, grain and pelletized plastic commodity cars. For the time being, we don't haul any petro-chem, but that may change because change is the only constant in modern railroading. ------------------ Brent Tidaback, Member #234 BNSF Railfan-to-the Max and a N-Scaler to boot! "Ship it on the Route of The Roadrunners!" The Aransas Odessa & Western, a division of the BNSF
E-8, was that your Budwieser tank car I saw on the club layout? Where did you get the lables? So that is what the siding at the Frat House was for! Ha. ------------------ Watash
COAL, COAL, COAL !! I have mostly coal Hoppers(CSX & Ex-Conrail)bound for Grafton, WV , and Coal Mines points south , Assorted modern Boxcars to just about anywhere, Quite a few Auto Racks :wink: bound to Pittsburgh & Cumberland, Few Chemical cars bound for cumberland Clarksburgh and Elsewhere, and Plenty of Bulk head flats for Machinery I lumber. A few *single* :wink: slack cars from pittsburgh to Cumberland/Baltimore, and some TOFCs. *single*... one container perwell, because of low tunnel clearances . ------------------ Appalachian & Atlantic Model Railroad "QUALITY at WORK with SAFTEY in MIND"
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by watash: E-8, was that your Budwieser tank car I saw on the club layout? Where did you get the lables? So that is what the siding at the Frat House was for! Ha. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> They say there's a prototype for everything... http://www.trainweb.org/railpics/spmw6331.html ------------------ Mike Smith lcso_927@hotmail.com Eugene, Oregon LCSO's RailPics ~ License and registration please... "She's not really gone if her memory lives on in our hearts." Southern Pacific 1865-1996
I have an eclectic mixture of equipment, but I have discovered a weakness of mine when it comes to collecting equipment: modern shortline boxcars. Go figgure, of all the things I could collect, I choose the one thing that is often overlooked. (But, thanks to MDC and Micro-Trains, there is no shortage of the boogers!) About half of my operable fleet is made of boxcars, and of those, the majority belong to shortlines and being 50' in length. Here's how it breaks down: <UL TYPE=SQUARE> <LI> 50' Double Sliding Door - Milwaukee Road <LI> 53' Double Plug Door - Minneapolis Northfield & Southern <LI> 50' Single Plug Door Insulated - Fruit Growers Express <LI> 50' Double Sliding Door - Apache Railway <LI> 50' Single Plug Door Insulated - CSX <LI> 60' Double Plug Door Waffle Side - Milwaukee Road <LI> 50' Double Sliding Door - Western Maryland (Chessie) <LI> 50' Single Sliding Door - Lamoille Valley <LI> 50' Double Sliding Door - Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe <LI> 50' Single Sliding Door - St. Mary's Railroad <LI> 50' Combo Door - Canadian Nat'l (Railbox Repaint) <LI> 50' Combo Door - Canadian Nat'l (Railbox Repaint) <LI> 50' Combo Door - Canadian Nat'l (Railbox Repaint) <LI> 50' Single Sliding Door - CSX (St. Lawerence Repaint) <LI> 50' Single Sliding Door - Delaware & Hudson (Guilford Rail Systems) <LI> 40' Single Plug Door - Detroit, Toledo & Ironton <LI> 50' Single Plug Door Insulated - Penn Central <LI> 50' Single Sliding Door - Appalaciacola Northern <LI> 50' Double Plug Door - Vermont Railway [/list] Have I bored you all yet? ------------------ Brian Schmidt railohio@hotmail.com ICQ #21630753 AIM - railohio [This message has been edited by BrianS (edited 10 October 2000).]
Me personally, I like coal. I've got 53 (at current count) 5 bay hoppers relettered for MoPac, that drag along nicely behind my Kato SD 40-2's. I finally also got all the pieces and info together, so now I've got my first MP trilevel coming on line. ------------------ Jenks - the REAL Big Blue
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by LCSO_927: They say there's a prototype for everything... http://www.trainweb.org/railpics/spmw6331.html <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Ha! Tastes like that looks too! Charlie ------------------ Ship It On The FRISCO! | IAMOKA.com