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This link might help your research for tugs and barges: http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&sort=A&output=3&cmdtext=%22BARGE%22 It lists magazines, dates, and article titles. Hope it helps.

The screen spark arrestor on the stack of your three truck shay, could not be left covering the stack, at the end of the day. Soot would build up quickly overnight, and would suffocate the fire, requiring a "cold start" the next morning. by loosening the fasteners and providing a bigger opening...

Looks like you're off to a good start on an interesting project! :thumb:

When unloading a float, or, for that matter, a car ferry, care must be taken to insure the "stability" of the float or ferry. Boxcars full of product, make lousy submarines! :eek: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I remember one of my early Trainfests (Trainfest 2008, was my twentieth) where a group had set up an above ground pool, about ten feet in diameter, and were an operating RC car ferry, in HO scale. They would unload, reload, and send the ferry across the "lake", where it would be unloaded, and...

I would have to assume that the 2-4-4-2 is the Little River #148, as the #126 didn't last too long on the line. It was returned to Baldwin, and went out to Washington State.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: That's your story, and you should "stick" to it, but, as I hear it, your next door neighbor is still trying to figure out what happened to his shrubs! :twisted: :mrgreen: I remember seeing the pictures of trains traveling over flooded tracks, right after the major Midwest...

My association with Carstens goes back fifty years! I still subscribe to RMC, and still like the content. Yes, Carstens taking on the RMJ subscribers, and providing them "something" for their money, is a class act, and one which is, and has been, rarely seen in my lifetime. I do hope that the...

The older DCC systems were designed to program the older decoders that did not include sound. Sound decoders draw too much current for the older DCC systems, so they have a problem programming those decoders. I believe that turning the sound off, helps ease the load, and address programming...

I am old enough to remember steam on the Long Island RR. Unfortunately, age has given me a memory upgrade........most of it is "write only" now, and access has become sequential, vice random. Logic would have me believe that roofwalks, would be the same color as the roof, and tackboards would...

Several years ago, I was out to Phoenix, Az. I had scheduled two stops on the return trip. A ride on the Grand Canyon Ry, from Williams, to the Canyon and back, and a ride on the Durango & Silverton. On the trip up to the Canyon, the train came to a stop, in the middle of the desert, and we all...

Running boards/roof walks, and tack boards, were they ever painted a different color than the surface they were mounted on?, or were they the same color as their background? This came up in a recent PM exchange, and I can't remember seeing too many color shots of steam era equipment to go to...

One thing has not been mentioned here yet. Quartering! If for any reason a driver of a steam loco is removed from its axle, it must be quartered, as it is put back on. All the drivers must be quartered the same. Typically, the right hand driver leads the left, by 90 degrees. If all do not match...

Getting the logs out of the woods, and into the mills, was the priority. Track was laid to do just that (and get the loggers to the camps), and once the area was logged out, the tracks were moved to get to a new location. If a stream ran full enough,year round, to wash out the tracks, it was...

If you live near a Pit Bull, carry a lipstick with you.....if the Pit Bull ever "attacks", whip out the lipstick, and the Pit Bull will run as fast and as far as it can from you. There's nothing more frightening to a Pit Bull, than the thought of being turned into a "Hockey Mom" :mrgreen...

Donald, First, welcome to the-gauge! The photos are cool, and if you are going to model a steel mill, there probably won't be much time for modeling locomotives, so Nachoman's suggestions are, for now, at least, the best way to go. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Well sir, 'bout six inches. :mrgreen...

Saturday evening, and Sunday were busy, so I wasn't able to see this sooner. Paul, you were an inspiration to many of us. You were a friend to many more. If I have any regret, it would be that I never had the chance to meet with you, and discuss model railroading over good food and drink...

I would guess that the larger percentage of us here grew up prior to the "choking hazard" signs that prevent small children from putting objects in their mouths.........and choking on the "small parts". I have one (1-part, big enough so that no warning is required ) question for those who...

My congrat's to David, then. The background really adds to your photos! But, perhaps not too big to photograph?......and post. ( hint, hint :mrgreen: )

Now that's something I'd like to see! I had two tours of duty at NAS Brunswick,Me.. The coast of Maine is perhaps, my favorite place to visit. A very interesting bit of scenery to model, with the evergreens growing right down to the water's edge, and all the rock formations, weathered and...