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Re: What should I put here?
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2009, 09:28:47 PM »
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Yeah, it's pretty cool. I'm waiting for the 1970 views though.

www.historicaerials.com

Is slowly adding more and more older coverage. The sharpness isn't nearly as good, but the technology at the time wasn't either but you can definately get information

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Re: What should I put here?
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2009, 10:10:53 PM »
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or abandon the warehouse spur.  Add a second track for the cement spur allowing more cars to be spotted and make it a more important industry.  Generally I find that in the real world cement plants make poor neighbors so you will see trees/weeds near the property line to absorb noise/dust and actually improve the view.  Your space would really cramp in a cement plant siince they all seem to have a large vacant space footprint.  Maybe turning the plant 180* will help you use the space better?  Since we all try to put the operations/photogenic side forward it sometimes helps to put the 'bad' side out since tht is how real life usually works, for me at least.  Of course you could make a career of detailing that cement plant with igns of life including loading machinery, trash, rock piles, employee vehicles,and the like, unless you happen to be modeling Sunday when everything but the railroad is idle, then its a sea of parked nine yard trucks.  I suppose what I'm saying is that the cement plant deserves more room to get the feel of an industy needing rail service...
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Re: What should I put here?
« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2009, 12:43:38 PM »
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Add a second track for the cement spur allowing more cars to be spotted and make it a more important industry.

I added second track. Still need to detail area.


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Re: What should I put here?
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2009, 02:02:46 PM »
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Hey Guys,  Thanks for all the input.  I've been away from the computer until now so haven't been able to check this thread.  The aerial photos are interesting.  They don't show a lot of clutter around the property.  So the raw material just gets transferred between railcars and trucks and that's pretty much it.  Does anyone know where I can find suitable trucks for the 50's?  Would you see dumptrucks transporting the concrete or semi trailers?  Too bad these are no longer available:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/229-8706

They'd probably look good in the scene.

Erik

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Re: What should I put here?
« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2009, 02:20:49 PM »
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I think in the 50s it was probably mixed on site .. except around Hoover Dam .. Maybe some of the more senior modelers can fill in ..


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Re: What should I put here?
« Reply #21 on: April 15, 2009, 06:00:47 PM »
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Google and Live have to be the most revolutionary tools to ever hit model railroading.

I have to agree.  It's the greatest documentation tool of the prototype invented to-date.  It doesn't make up for close on-location photography, but for the modeler it gives that invaluble "Birds eye" perspecive of what these things REALLY look like in the real.

It's funny, I can sit and just follow a rail line for hours on it, its that mesmerizing.
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Re: What should I put here?
« Reply #22 on: April 15, 2009, 11:31:34 PM »
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I'm just as mesmerized following abandoned right of ways and really remote lines.  You don't always get the birds eye view, but you can really get a feel for the countryside that your modeled line runs through.

The downside to it is that you can now see for rizzle just how small your auto plant or paper mill is compared to the real thing!
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Re: What should I put here?
« Reply #23 on: April 21, 2009, 09:02:33 AM »
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Too bad these are no longer available:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/229-8706

They'd probably look good in the scene.

Erik, I have one of these for sale, $4 + shipping if you have PayPal.  PM me if you want it.

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