Ian Holmes
This is an aerial view of the ME Global plant in Gary/New Duluth, MN. It receives taconite (iron ore pellets) and gondolas of scrap metal and produces mining drilling equipment.
Christopher Brimley
Hello Everyone.
Unfortunately there are some technical issues happening on TrainLife right now. We are currently working on a solution for this and hope to have everything working properly as soon as possible.
Thank you for supporting TrainLife.
Chris
Scott Nattrass
A long week at work... not enough time to get down to the train club...
Herb Roberson
I just want to say thanks to all on the site for so many great new ideas on scenery, kit bashing, painting, and on and on. What a great site and sharing people! Thanks!!
Larry Hepker
My experiences in
stripping paint lately:
I have used various
methods in the past which goes back to brake fluid back in the 1970s. My latest efforts involve “Super Clean”,
“Purple Power”, and 91% alcohol. I use
Rubbermaid containers. 7M71 appears to
be the model. The lid is red and the
container is clear. They hold 5 cups
which translates to 2 cars, 55’ or smaller fit in each one.
Last Saturday morning
I decided to strip some cheapie cars I got from ebay. Several appeared to be heavily painted with
some brand of rattle can paint. I
couldn’t finish stripping all of them that morning so left them soaking until I
remembered them Tuesday. The 3 strippers
all came from Walmart and none had stripping paint mentioned as a normal use. Now the methods and results.
1: 91% alcohol. The paint came off in large sheets with a
little bit of scrubbing. It wasn’t quite
clean so it got moved to the “Simple Clean” tub. In this particular situation the results
moved 91% alcohol from my normal choice to my 3rd option.
2: Purple Power
diluted 1:1. The paint was completely
stripped and all the was left on the shells was a thin film of pigment that
rinsed off with a spray of water. This
worked well but is still not as good as the next choice.
3: Super Clean full
strength. I pulled the shell of an F-7
out of this stripper and the paint was completely gone. Other shells had the same result. I had actually thought that the plastic this
shell was grey but it isn’t, it is black.
There was no paint ANYWHERE on the shell. No scrubbing the fans or grills or any part. NO PAINT just bare plastic! I like this method a lot. :)
I have no idea what
paints were used on the shells but everything that went into the Super Clean
was completely stripped to bare plastic.
Whether it will work for anyone else is as yet unanswered.
Mike Oyaski
BLI Trackmobile
I know in the instructions it had some recommendations for a couple of CV's to make them run better. I had to reset the decoder in mine and can't find my copy. Does anybody have the instructions handy?
Chris Shepherd(guitar446)
Hi Trainlife and everyone, are any of yal having a problem seeing the pics in the albums and videos? its still driving me crazy!
There's an article on the way bricks were manufactured at
http://trainlife.com/magazines/pages/2/95/june-1989-page-27
The factories in Mt Union, PA, smade specialized bricks for steel mills. But the basic process was similar for ordinary brick.
In the real world, industries are BIG. The cement plant at Portland Point, near Ithaca, NY, from the 1950s was relatively small. Yet it would scale out larger than 5 feet long in HO.
Anyone ever been to PortlandPoint cement plant Ithica. The plant was located on the old Liegh valley trackage. It was Conrail back in the early 90's. Have some great pics but noway to post them at this time.
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