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The Cenrail Illinois Railroad
Hello to everyone here at Model Railroad hobbyist. Always a visitor and never a member till now.
My first post is about my fictional railroad that, ironically shares the same name as a real railroad, that I didn't know about until recently.
My n scale railroad is the Central Illinois Railroad, based in Evans (ghost town), Illinois. Its locomotive fleet consist of:
Rock Island, 4-8-4, 5113
CNW, 4-6-0, 237
2 unlettered 2-8-0s
1 undecorated 0-8-0
2 undecorated Dash 9s
My Central Illinois Railroad Industries
With my locomotive close to being completed, I already decided and will have a few great industries that real railroads service: quarry, brick factory, concrete plant, brewery, steel mill, lumber company, a scrap yard, and a charcoal factory.
In terms of importance, steel mill, the quarry, scrap (scraps go to the steel mill), brick plant, concrete plant, lumber company, and charcoal company.
I do have a few names for some of the industris:
Coldington Steel
founded in 1872, open at current location in 1925
Get Started
First post here. Member for over two years. Mostly I've been studying, reading, absorbing. Learning DCC, very excited by what can be done JMRI, computers, occupancy detection, signaling, routes, dispatching, oh just say everything and be done with it. I built my first computer in 1980. Worked with communication electronics in the Navy. Experience on PLC programing troubleshooting and general everything electronic fix it man.
A little background
Working faster, not smarter
What? Well, I like most people are hooked on battery powered tools; however did you ever check the battery powered tool speeds compared to the corded models? The battery powered tools are generally slower than corded models and in some cases up to 40% slower!
Update on the Arizona Pacific / Triple W N-scale Project!
When we last left our intrepid modeling family, the fictional histories of the two pikes had been completed up to The Great War, and a major change of venue had been decided upon. Now, on with our story.
Pictures rotating after posting.
For some reason some of the pictures on my latest posts are rotating 90 degrees on their own sometime (not immediately) after posting. It only happens on pictures that I took with my I phone. Anyone else run into this?
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