I lost a lot of such items as well. My mother had a vicious side. What we know as a 'personality disorder' these days. She would destroy things I was attached to, even brand new, just to get at me.
Dang... I see alot of the old models coming back, the local Wallymart has a display of alot of older AMT model cars, planes, and trucks out lately! Same models, new packaging.
Maybe not. When the N Scale Convention was in Roanoke in 2014 some of us were on a tour of the Roanoke shops where we were able to see them assembling new coal gons. They were using all kind of material and had to bolt everything together where they contacted each other with special coatings to prevent electrolysis between all the dissimilar metals. The upper side sheets were aluminum on the cars we watched being built. The lower belt was something else, I forget what, because many of the power plants like to use propane flames to heat the car sides at that point in the winter to melt any rain water that has frozen and glued all the coal in before it gets to the rotary dumper. All aluminum sides tended to melt as well as the ice.
Here is a close up of the lower belt of the car above showing the special coated fasteners. The holes are drilled slightly over size and the coating keeps them from contacting either material. Not sure how they isolated the two materials bolted together after they drill the holes. One or both of them have a protective coating of some sort. Perhaps they deburred the holes and squirted some additional insulation in before installing the fasteners. You can see buff marks on the material around some of the fasteners.
Today's 238 had NS 4000 on the point, their first AC44C6M DC to AC conversion, as completed in 2015. NS painted a handful of the initial units in gray with noses in various colors.
Sonic Bonnet! Nice catch! Russ, are those TopGons? BNSF power on CP grain train 319, the CP Portal Sub, entering the Minot CP yard. Even got a wave on camera this time!
Often linked to one's internal GPS and the cause of many entries into rooms followed by an abrupt stop and the question, "Why did I come here?".
I just looked up CHROMGARD C12 shown stamped on the side in the lower photo above. It appears to be a type of stainless steel. https://crompion.com/industries/mining/
Huck bolts. Like a variation of a giant pop rivet. Have shot many thousands of them on rail cars, in my distant past.
My goodness, just read that we had another fatal grade crossing collision here this morning. I think it was likely with the same NS train that someone drove into the side of last week. I wish people would take a moment to appraise the risk/reward of saving ten minutes vs losing their lives.
Mark off another NS heritage on my list. NS 8103 leading U-BKMHKM out of Galesburg southbound. May 18, 2022 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
