Alcanman Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 (edited) Talking of which, by chance found this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27421779 Interesting article Ian. Perhaps with the increased demand for hops in the US may lead to more grain being transported by rail. Probably unlikely, but a nice thought I just can't get enough of US Pale Ales and IPAs. UK brewers are now brewing 'American Style Pale Ale' and IPA. Who woud have thought that 20 years ago! Mal Edited May 16, 2014 by Alcanman 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 (edited) Now thats a good excuse for visiting the brewery!! I was considering adding one to Fort Myers but just didnt have the space for another industry. Maybe I convert the juice plant into producing something stronger!! What I really would like a real location with a brewery in the Chicago area alongside a Norfolk Southern track for the next N scale layout. That still gives you a good reason to sample different beers and research the brewery,in the chance you find a rail cornected one. I was drinking the Gosse island IPA last night in my local spoons,( all in the name of research you know), i found the last bottle tasted as good as the first,will have to do more researched over the weekend Ray Edited May 16, 2014 by long island jack 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I'm partial to Wold Top's Against the Grain personally. It's luuuuuurvely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted May 16, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 16, 2014 (edited) Mal I tend to go for the darker beers but some of the strong hoppy beers are quite tasty. You can often tell a UK ale that has American hops as they have a much more powerful aroma and taste Ray So you drank all the bottles in Spoons fridge then?? Got plenty of research coming up including going back to old favourites to double check their suitability. Next years NMRA convention is being held in Portland, OR. One of the tours is round UP's Albina yard. WIdmers brewery and pub is opposite the yard entrance, so we will try and get dropped of there after the tour. However, I cant wait that long to go back there so will be visiting this year!! P.S. going to have to change the title of this thread to include beer Edited May 16, 2014 by roundhouse 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 You could start a thread about American breweries next to railroads,which would be interesting to some,don't know how you'd get around all of us having a sample though!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted May 16, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 16, 2014 Ray There is a thread osmewhere on rail served breweries but cant find it when searching. Would love to bring you back some smaples but I wouldnt be bale to resist drinikngi t!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted May 18, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 18, 2014 This morning I set up the layout to check the wiring. Apart from One new copper lad sleeper at the baseboard end not bring cut through properly, it all worked. I am still not happy with the proposed track on the new end board. The one turnout fixed in place needs to be a Y turnout so that will now get changed, allowing the track to be laid pretty much as planned. Some photos taken this morning. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Looking good! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 3, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2014 There's been no work on the layout for a couple of weeks now and I suspect that there don't be much done for a few further weeks due to dads passing away and funeral but I have managed to pick up some detailing bits here in the USA such as switch stands and track stops. Hoping to get the loading gantries this morning in Hobbysmith if they have them plus any other suitable details. This morning I loaded XtrakCAD onto my laptop so will hopefully draw up the tack plan one morning if I get up early on the rest of our travels. The layout will be ready for The Freemo meet in July even if Is don't have all the detailing complete. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted June 3, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2014 Well mine won't be much more than slightly scenic as I'm not rushing it track down for operation and working is all I care about for this first meet. Let's hope we can do them every now and again to see progress Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted June 3, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2014 At least a fair bit of your layout started out looking good Ian mine is still minimalist but the boards are done, track is going down and all the wiring stuff is ready so as the boss is working away I've got four weeks to get stuff done around work. My original US diesel collection was sold off several years ago when I went steam and all I've done in the last five years is collect stuff and that's what's really bugging me after seeing the other guys nicely toned weathering. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 3, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2014 Luckily I only need a few LPG cars but looks like There will be some brought along by others for the meet. I still have one board to lay track but it should be a fairly quick task and I can spend an hour each morning before heading to work. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Kieran Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Ian, With all this talk of fine consumable beverages, I wonder why you don't have a rail served micro brewery. Magic Hat Brewery in Vermont is served by rail (covered hoppers, but other cars could be used also). I fell in love with their elixer called Circus Boy. Great Stuff. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Magic+Hat+Brewing+Co/@44.42897,-73.213411,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4cca7c75522df297:0xe54dc4c8feb0f6a?hl=en Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 5, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2014 I ran out of space but if I rebuild the juice factory boards then that may well become a brewery. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted June 5, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2014 Ian, With all this talk of fine consumable beverages, I wonder why you don't have a rail served micro brewery. Magic Hat Brewery in Vermont is served by rail (covered hoppers, but other cars could be used also). I fell in love with their elixer called Circus Boy. Great Stuff. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Magic+Hat+Brewing+Co/@44.42897,-73.213411,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4cca7c75522df297:0xe54dc4c8feb0f6a?hl=en Hi Mike, Is that correct? One of the locals that sends me photos etc for rail operations said the brewery isn't rail served but all the distribution goes via the Farrell Distribution Centre a bit further north for the brewery? Search Google Maps using 3 Holmes Rd, South Burlington, VT 05403, USA https://www.google.com/maps/place/3+Holmes+Rd/@44.433463,-73.212411,19z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4cca7b8b7d83d17d:0xc2dcb6416f2d8858?hl=en Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Kieran Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 I was told on on tour of the brewery in 2008 that they received grain by rail. I just figured that they didn't receive by rail any more. If I understand correctly, the Vermont Railway uses the brewery as a passenger station stop. maybe that's what the tour guide meant. Then again, the tour guide was a bit like Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli character in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuENFR-9phU. He knew every bit of information about the various brews though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 15, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2014 Today is Fort Myers work day. I thought that I had better extend the legs so that the layout height matches the Freemo standard ofc45"floor to top of rail. The extension prices shown below are screwed to each leg to get the layout to 45".The remainder will be made up with screw in feet. Doing thr legs now means that I can put the other layouts boards underneath the Fort Myers ones whilst the are set up to work on. More progress photos later. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 15, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2014 (edited) I managed to complete Long Island Jacks trestle today. Took a while to work out the configuration of the parts but it's worked out quite well. Now I can complete the scenery on this board and move on to the next board which will have the cement unloading. Still plenty of work to do. Edited June 15, 2014 by roundhouse 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I like the Aerofan Boat - nice job - (Scratched or bought? We had a couple of them up here in the Bonar Bridge area but I haven't heard of them recently Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 16, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2014 It was scratchbuilt 20 years ago, apart from the hull which was bought in a pack of them. I was thinking only last night that it would be nice ot build another one, if I can find those hulls. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 17, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) A little more progress last night. The sement unloading structure was started and the amin part of this is now assembled. The storage tanks are now being filled and sanded. I also sorted out which freight cars are going to be used in each of the spurs photographed them (but should have checked the photos as some came out blurred) and started compiling a list of these on the train this morning. Hopefully I can retake the photos and thrn add these to the list tonight. Ian Edited June 17, 2014 by roundhouse 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted June 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 Been doing the same as you and found I need to renumber a couple of boxcars as my cheap atlas cars that were bought to bulk out trains have a couple of duplicates The majority of my super detail wagons are grain, intermodal and coal and no use for my shunting yard that's part of this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 17, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 I was lucky that none of them had duplicate numbers. The covered hoppers have generally been repainted and numbered so hopefully they should be unique and not clash with anyone else's stock. Not sure about the rest though. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 It's fine, nobody will be running cars with the same number, and i'm recording on the database who's car is who's (or at least, the person who notified me...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 17, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) I put my initials under each item these days with a paint pen but as Martyn says, we will need different numbers on the cars so that the sequence will work. Lunchtime I filled in my spreadsheet as far as I could go with the numbers and reporting marks plus the industry name that they go to. Some industries will have the real names (with subtle difference to avoid any copyright) in Fort Myers whilst some will have made up ones suitable for the area. Martyn - if any cars do have clashing numbers with others let me know and I will renumber them or change the car. Ian Edited June 17, 2014 by roundhouse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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