Since I was out of filament for my printer I took another break for the ADM project. A while back I came across a picture of a BN gondola that had had the gravel, dirt, and junk in it for so long that grass and weeds were growing in the car.

I had an old Roundhouse NW Gondola so I set about weathering it and creating the load. My load is not removable but it could be easily done that way.

I've acquired a 1970 (guess) vintage Ulrich WW2 composite gondola. Metal carbody, wooden floor and underframe. I've disassembled it and tossed the wood. The plan is to replace it with styrene and scratch build a new under frame and brake rigging. Anyway the question is what metal did they use? I was thinking of soldering it together but thought I'd better find out if that would work or not first.

Anybody know what this made of?

Thanks,

Clarence

While working with the Rapido CN RS-18, one of the ways to push the motor was to run at increasing larger grade levels.  These results were different than expected based on what has been implied in other discussions.  To get a better understanding of this, a series of experiments were devised to see how this engine would compare with others.  A side benefit of this exercise would be actual data on how there engines respond to changes in

Recently, I’ve been looking at British prototypes for modeling in a small space. Having only known American style trains, I had always thought the British and European prototypes looked rather strange. However, It seems to me that British profile model trains and layouts have several things in their favor. First is smaller equipment, like mainline 0-6-0’s and smaller rolling stock, for both freight (goods), and passenger.