For a write-up of the day’s activities, click here: http://tinyurl.com/TRRFreight Later, K
Absolutely marvelous! I know that must have taken some time to put together and your effort sure pays off in the presentation.
A broken TinyURL ???
Jon, I couldn’t get it to work, either…
Fixed. Sorry 'bout that.
K
Great stuff.
Kevin,
Daddy must be proud - fine looking railroad and an excellent storyline to go with the pictures.
Kevin, glad you got that link fixed, a wonderful trip… thanks for taking the time to show us… 
Thanks for fixing the link. Very nicely done. Your railroad has matured beautifully. The plantings look great, as do the buildings. I can’t even begin on your locos and rolling stock 
Kevin, I’m kind of curious as to how you generate the traffic on the TVRR? Do you use a program or is it just a product of your imagination?
I’m sure there are quite a few others that would be interested.
As you probably know from previous posts, some of us are beta testing Bob’s TrainOps program, but at the moment mine has developed a bug, so I’ve been experimenting with alternatives (read “imagination”). For the time being I’ve been pulling cars from the Interchange and just randomly spotting them at the various industries and then picking them up on the second go-round. (Like yesterday, till the temps put an end to it…)
Terrific story, BTW. I think what Ric had in mind was something similar from Bruce’s J&B RR. You could have just as easily posted this one in the “Operations” forum…
Kevins the guy that I stole the “switching Matrix” idea from that you use for your On30 stuff…
OK…yea, I forgot where you got that. That’s what I plan to use outside till the TrainOps things gets debugged…Thanx.
Coincidentally, there’s a discussion in the operations forum where I just posted a description of my system:
http://www.largescalecentral.com/LSCForums/viewtopic.php?pid=103109#p103109
Later,
K
That was great. I really enjoyed the way you set that up. Made me feel like I was their. Great job
Cool.
Jon.
Shawn said:Me too!!! Just fantastic.
That was great. I really enjoyed the way you set that up. Made me feel like I was their. Great job
Kinda funny Richard asked about the water tower as I was talking with my one tool dealer today whom is huge into steam tractors. I asked what he knew about the EBT and turns out he was actually involved with a group Friends of EBT 10 yrs or so ago and how they tried to save a station blah blah blah…anyway he was telling me about the really neat features such as doors on a tunnel because of icing,and of course the other things that I have read in GR by Kevin?
However he was fascinated with that water tower. He stated that the bladder is made out of some kind of wood(couldn’t remember what) where they kept filling the bladder until the wood swelled enough that it sealed itself.
Anyone know more about that?
Man you guys are really turning me on to this RR and it way too close not to check it out.
Comparing the EBT to Strassburg is like comparing the Durango & Silveron to the Cumbres & Toltec. Strassburg and Durango are way to commercialized and sit in the middle of a very touristy area. The EBT and Cumbres are both off the beaten path and have a much more relaxed atmosphere where you can wander around the yard area, get close and personel with the crews and has much more of a “hands on” feel to it.
As for the water tank, that’s how most wooden water tanks work. Double sheathed in wood where the water swells the wood to the point where it fits tight together and doesn’t leak. Most of those hopper cars in Bruce’s pictures were made right in the shops there at the EBT. When you see them and then tour the shop area, you’ll begin to see the facination for the place.
There are any number of "experts " on here that can help you with any details about the place. Ric, Jon Radder, Kevin, Gary Buchanan, Bart just to name a few. I’ve only been there once and while it’s high on my “get back to” list, other commitments have gotten in the way.
Great little ditty there Kevin,
would love to see it in “real time video”…like that wouldn’t take a bunch of time!
ur GRR looks amazing, it’s really come a long way since running around the tree there at the back door stoop!
cale
Interesting thing about wood tanks and plumbing. So long as there’s water in them, they last. It’s only when they’re allowed to dry out that problems emerge. There are actually no water tanks in the EBT’s Rockhill Furnace yards, but two (or three at one point) standpipes, fed from a reservoir up in the hill east of the shop complex. That was put in over 100 years ago, and I’m told the oak plumbing from the reservoir to the standpipes is still watertight. They used to use the standpipe down by the coal tipple up until a handful of years ago. I forget why they stopped, I think something with the valves. I also think there’s an effort afoot to fix it. Don’t quote me, I’m going from memory.
Cale, a video will be shot in the coming weeks. I’ve got some ideas I’m working out, and I’d like to borrow a friend’s HD camera for the shoot now that I’ve upgraded my machine to edit HD video. Then I can push it to Vimeo, and y’all can appreciate it in HD.
Later,
K
So that funky water tank is lined with oak?