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ooops, typo., Cheers, I'm using AMB kit 180. http://www.laserkit.com/180.html

Cheers, I of using AMB kit 120E; Earlier this year was looking for lighting.

What's your plan for the Gorre depot? Fine Scale Muniatures 1948 1947 My cardboard cutout for planning. Phil Clark, Catarman, Philippines.

Hm, I wonder what a rum distillery would look like. An excuse for a sugar cane loco. Gives me an idea for a boxcar load. Around here it’s a quid a bottle. In my twist on history the tank cars, probably GATX will ride the train ferry, Havana-Key West, and be lettered AZUGAS (Azucarera Gasolina).They’ll be loads of sugar cane ethanol, north to Fort Meade for USATC experiments. On my layout, Key West is a staging yard. Snap-shots later when my box arrives from Australia. Meanwhile I'll edit some way-bills; and I’ve found an Apco lettered 8k tank car to butcher.

Andy, I was thinking about the Shell tank cars. I made a few notes. From the 1950 onwards the icon became simplified to avoid blurring when smaller on fax and Internet. The 1955 design uses the word Shell inside the icon. http://www.logodesignlove.com/shell-logo-design-evolution The red and yellow were Spanish colours to help the earliest California service stations stand out. Many early Californians were Spanish born. http://www.logodesignlove.com/shell-logo-design-evolution Esso had expanded in 1958, Shell Oil, which had operated in Cuba as a fuels marketer since 1922, had built its own 28,500 b/d refinery, also in Regla, a suburb on the east side of La Habana harbour, where oil refining was started in Cuba during the 1890s. http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume15/pdfs/pinon.pdf I won two P2K 8K Shell tank cars off eBay Australia but when assembling I found a dome was missing. They’ll be shelf queens, till I find a donor dome. Anyway, these SCCX cars are in my Jan 1969 ORER (The Official Railway Equipment Register). In my minds’ eye, Castro’s revolution has slipped decade and they deliver to the US Naval base at Guantánamo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guant%C3%A1namo_Bay Where do your Shell cars go?

JWB, Marty, thanks for your help. It all certainly makes obvious the gaps in my knowledge. I’ll relocate my Ford plant to Pittsburgh. The DTI cars, with custom racking, are still used for engines modified to use ethanol/gasoline mix. The destination is a Ford (Havana) plant where sugarcane ethanol/gasoline engines are fitted to F-150 pickups. These are Cuban market only (like VW beetles in Brazil), a best seller and a perpetuation of a 1961-1966 fourth generation design. I’ll presume all other parts are made locally. The anthracite is used only by the Key West, Fla power plant, about 39 Mw. I’ll call it Conch Power & Light (CP&L). The excess heat runs a desalination plant. As anthracite became more expensive, the power plant is being converted to use natural gas from the North Cuba basin offshore wells. My scenario (1969) does not see nationalisation of the Esso and Shell refineries in 1960; or abandonment of The Key West line by the FEC after the 1935 hurricane. There is a train ferry to/from Key West using an ex-USN WW2 built harbour. On my H0 model railroad Key West is a 4 track staging yard seeing ethanol/gasoline tank car traffic; mechanical reefer traffic of tropical fruit and vegetables; box cars of parts for the Ford auto assembly plant in Havana; and box cars with offshore oil-rig drilling platform parts for the deep sea wells in the North Cuba basin. Most of this is factual, but the slipping of decades to see that the Castro/Kennedy embargo hasn’t happened yet, is my whim. phil

Regret WM map is a .bmp - how do I upload it?

5050, I enjoyed reading theabove. I’ve been there, and nowadays find my fingers are not as nimble as a decade ago. Anyway, you’d certainly know more than me about Western Maryland. I’m looking at a map, can see Baltimore in the East and Pittsburgh in the West. I’m putting an interchange pair of tracks on my layout for cars to/from Pittsburgh. I’ll name the location Baltimore (Steel). Do you suppose (in my late 1960s scenario) the WM is a credible routing of DTI box cars from Ford (Detroit) going south to Florida, RDG anthracite hoppers going south to Florida? Phil Clark, Catarman, Philippines

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I use NMRS in Australia. The boss phones me sometimes, he’s an ATSF H0 collector/modeller into operation and DCC,, so knows what I’m talking about; we discuss NMRA doings. I saw his name on the MFCL Yahoo !group. He is very patient, in the recent past has waited for my Phiippine MasterCard accounts to supply a PIN so I can use PayPal. My order is accumulative; he orders parts from US suppliers/distributors, they take weeks to arrive to him; my box fills in his store; I pay by PayPal. http://www.northmodelrailroadsupplies.com/ http://members.optusnet.com.au/~david.north/gallery.html When box is full, it’s mailed to my mate in Sydney; is placed inside a robust 24 by 16 by 16 inch shipping Balikbayan Box (BB); Space is filled with ebay.au items. When full is shipped to me via BM express. Most package carriers like DHL, FedEx, etc. offer a BB service. BBs are inbound to Philippines only; sea/surface transport only, are exempt from customs charges and inspection. Cost is about 75 USD per box not by weight to here in Eastern Visayas. The national mail service, Philpost is totally unreliable; stuff would never get here. In UK, I’d dream for weeks awaiting packages, now I dream for months. There no hobby shops around here. One in Manila, Lils, seems to be a premium price Tamiya outlet. Customers buy boxed kits o space craft, vehicle, ships etc, but no trains and nothing in 1/87. I'll add a few snapshots. Phil Clark, Catarman, Philippines.

I use NMRS in Australia. The boss phones me sometimes, he’s an ATSF H0 collector/modeller into operation and DCC,, so knows what I’m talking about; we discuss NMRA doings. I saw his name on the MFCL Yahoo !group. He is very patient, in the recent past has waited for my Phiippine MasterCard accounts to supply a PIN so I can use PayPal. My order is accumulative; he orders parts from US suppliers/distributors, they take weeks to arrive to him; my box fills in his store; I pay by PayPal. http://www.northmodelrailroadsupplies.com/ http://members.optusnet.com.au/~david.north/gallery.html When box is full, it’s mailed to my mate in Sydney; is placed inside a robust 24 by 16 by 16 inch shipping Balikbayan Box (BB); Space is filled with ebay.au items. When full is shipped to me via BM express. Most package carriers like DHL, FedEx, etc. offer a BB service. BBs are inbound to Philippines only; sea/surface transport only, are exempt from customs charges and inspection. Cost is about 75 USD per box not by weight to here in Eastern Visayas. The national mail service, Philpost is totally unreliable; stuff would never get here. In UK, I’d dream for weeks awaiting packages, now I dream for months. There no hobby shops around here. One in Manila, Lils, seems to be a premium price Tamiya outlet. Customers buy boxed kits o space craft, vehicle, ships etc, but no trains and nothing in 1/87. I'll add a few snapshots. Phil Clark, Catarman, Philippines.