03-28-2012, 10:33 AM
Gus, DocWayne, thanks for the compliments. The staging yard will hold about 15 fifty footers on each track, so 11 x 15 is 165. Then there is also the staging at each end of the layout for the local trains. In the last ops session, there were 284 cars that were moved around on the layout. Approx 180 of those were through-trains, the other 100 were switched in and out of the local industries. There are some big customers, for example, Grocers Supply had about 26 cars, GERN had about 45, and the remaining 30 were single digit car movements to smaller customers.
Russ, I neglected to answer your previous question on the construction of the door ramps. They are pieced together from styrene strip, sheet, and tube.
On the sulphur train, was it molten sulphur in tank cars?
As for era, since I have a few BNSF "swoosh" cars, I'm around 2005.... do have some older cars that probably should have been scrapped by now. :oops:
Russ, I neglected to answer your previous question on the construction of the door ramps. They are pieced together from styrene strip, sheet, and tube.
On the sulphur train, was it molten sulphur in tank cars?
As for era, since I have a few BNSF "swoosh" cars, I'm around 2005.... do have some older cars that probably should have been scrapped by now. :oops: