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Re: Railsims

cornwall9 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:46:45 GMT

Dave, As both a model railroader and a computer "geek", I can agree with your definition. Going one small step further, I too am versed in Electrical (computer

Re: Railsims

Dave Husman — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:40:30 GMT

... From: "Stephen Pushak" ... Yes a computer simulation is a "model". A virtual model railroader can require knowledge and ability in

Re: Railsims

Stephen Pushak — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:57:59 GMT

... Well the activities are very different. Hard-core modellers will never give up sole domain of the term "modelling". But modelling is modelling even in a

Re: Ore Sampler

Rod & Pauline Tonkin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:31:28 GMT

Ore, concentrate slag and metal would have sampled manually in those days. The samples would have been chemically analised in a laboratory. The laboratory

Re: Ore Sampler

Jon C — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:19:41 GMT

Did you google it? There is a nice article on Utah Rails pages. one of the first choices, Iu sed Yahoo not google, but should be similar Jon C. SP Inyo Sub.

Re: Ore Sampler

PBowers — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:16:54 GMT

There were also ore samplers in the Kootenay lakes area of BC. From what I understand, the sampler plants were generally hand sorted ore plants where ore was

Ore Sampler

threefootrr — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:40:32 GMT

I have a question for the group: What is an ore sampler? I have an idea of what a mill and a smelter are, but I don't know what function an ore sampler plays

Re: Planning traffic

Andrew Keeney — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:05:30 GMT

That depends on the computer program Malcolm. With ProTrak, since it is a real-time program, that isn't a problem. You can run as many or as few trains as

Re: Chemicals for a Refrigerator Plant.

Russ — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:13:11 GMT

... I've never heard of refrigerant being shipped in tank cars. Possible, but who would use that much refrigerant at once? I would guess a refrigerator would

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Re: Chemicals for a Refrigerator Plant.

Noel Stoutenburg — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:01:11 GMT

... Not exactly what you asked about, but it's possible that the refrigerant used in refigerators is also brought in by rail, probably in pressurized tanks,

Re: Planning traffic - with smaller crew

railliar@... — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:07:07 GMT

This "control" issue is true on home layouts, at least my S&LS. Other than controlling the maximum number of operators -- which is not usually a

Re: Planning traffic - with smaller crew

Joe Berger — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:08:53 GMT

... We have "permanently" moved a couple jobs out of our normal monthly op session, and only run them in the following Thursday night's regular work session.

Re: Planning traffic - with smaller crew

Malcolm Laughlin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:32:40 GMT

One other thing I should have mentioned. We do our staging in an active fiddle yard. It represents the four ends of the railroad plus a branch and two