What topic would you like to know more about?

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So, what rail related topic are you currently most interested in learning about? A railroad, a particular branch, hardware (such as CTC or Baker valve gear), a class of locomotives, the economy of a region served by a railroad, or a particular station design? DCC? Coreless motors? The Delta Lines?

I'm currently fixated on the Oahu Railway.
 
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railohio

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I'm trying to track down the various USRA reports from the 1970s when Conrail was being formulated but I'm not having much luck.
 
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I would very much like to know more about:

US HO rtr brand names and their build quality.

Collectability/ rarity of US HO rtr locos and wagons.

In regard to US prototype wagons, what are the basic types, i.e. what do all those A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.s mean in plain English, please?


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logicman said:
In regard to US prototype wagons, what are the basic types, i.e. what do all those A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.s mean in plain English, please?
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Which acronyms are you referring to?

The basic freight cars are boxcars, hopper cars, gondolas, flat cars, stock cars, and tank cars. Cars with 4 sides and a roof can be lumped together as house cars while cars based off of flat cars can be lumped together as platform cars. Where you have 5, 6, and 7 plank wagons...we have high and low side gondolas.
 
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nachoman

Gee, I wish I could contribute something to this thread, but it is difficult to decide one ONE thing. I don't think I am happy unless I have at least half a dozen projects going at once!

My latest curiosity is how copper/smelting products and their constituent raw materials were shipped a hundred years ago. I am trying to create plausible traffic for my narrow gauge line.

Kevin
 
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Kevin...I'm in the same boat as you...I've been searching the web, but all I come up with is how it's being done today....Maybe a little creative engineering will be necessary....
 
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railohio

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nachoman said:
My latest curiosity is how copper/smelting products and their constituent raw materials were shipped a hundred years ago. I am trying to create plausible traffic for my narrow gauge line.
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Building an HO Model Railroad with Personality by John Olson has a list of books about Arizona copper mining in its bibliography. I don't have a copy anymore but I'm sure somebody out in Gauge... I mean, "Zealotland" ought to be able to provide some titles to review.
 
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