[Accrs-ho] Club equipment processed for movie

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*Message From: Dennis Stokely dstokely at sbcglobal.net*
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> Dean and I did a thinning and relocation of club cars this afternoon.  
> Some of the thinning of cars on the hidden yard went into the storage 
> drawers and others went to the freight yard and co-op grain silo.  
> Club cars are now on tracks 1-3 and Dean set-up his trailer-train on 
> track 4.  Tracks 5 through 9 are open for member trains to be staged 
> for the shoot.  Cars removed from the layout other than the hidden 
> yard are on a cart in the aisle by the passenger station.  A number of 
> these cars need to go back on the layout, BUT we need to answer one 
> basic question first.  How accurate do we want to be as to era 
> integrity?  That is, besides the primary train being realistic, do we 
> want the trains it meets and cars at industries to be the same era as 
> the primary train or are we willing to mix steam, modern and anything 
> in between.  This is critical both to what members set-up and what of 
> the cars we removed we put back.
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> *That said, anything Dean and I did can be changed relatively easily 
> tomorrow night or Saturday before the shoot.  My assumption is that we 
> want each industry and train to have era integrity, but not the 
> overall operation, but like I said, we can change the industries 
> fairly easily if the majority wants a single era.  So the specific 
> things we did were:*
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> *1- thinned and repositioned cars in the hidden yard as noted above*
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> *2- thinned the ice reefers to remove the "billboard" cars.  Right now 
> there are only four cars at the icing dock so we could use some actual 
> road name reefers added to that track.
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> *3- set-up a train of club cars in the freight yard (without power - 
> but preferably headed out through the bypass instead of block 34 
> because I would be amazed if it ran well if used as a staged train) 
> leaving three freight yard tracks available for member train set-up.*
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> *4- Removed the steam engine in Jamestown but left the Sierra Western 
> MOW car.  We may want to add other cars at industries once we decide 
> era issue.*
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> *5- Thinned the cars at the oil loading dock at Sierra Refining and 
> positioned the cars on eht front side at the actual loading positions. 
>   The era integrity is not perfect but reasonable and the car marked 
> for vegetable oil is now gone.*
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> *6- Moved the wrapped lumber loads from the pulp mill to the sawmill.  
> Thinned the trucks at Weyerhauser (to remove the competitor truck from 
> their loading dock) and Acme Plastics (to remove the post office and 
> food industry trucks and match their loading doors).  There are still 
> a couple of trucks that could go in the common area between the 
> industries.*
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> *7-   Added grain hoppers to the sidings at the co-op grain elevator.  
> ER integrity question.  Covered hoppers haven't changed much so the 
> body types are OK.  The road names are all mid 70"s vintage but 
> compatible.  If this is critical we can use the Sierra Western cars 
> that are in hidden and have a less than full industry.*
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> *8-Removed the stock cars from the loading dock at the from of the 
> port area and replaced them with a Burlington Northern (1968 to 2000 
> something vintage) boxcar with open doors and a lumber load.  I put 
> one of my airplane cars on a siding in the port area and would like to 
> add the second and the Boeing Car and an engine but that blocks a 
> switch which would be needed if the primary train runs into the port 
> area and the engine is BNSF which could have era issues we decide to 
> be era specific.*
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> *9- We removed ALL equipment from the passenger yard and and station 
> and roundhouse area.  Most was heavyweight equipment and steam engines 
> with a couple of different era Amtrak.  The heavyweight equipment just 
> needs to be thinned so it doesn't look cluttered if we don't mind the 
> loss of era integrity or we could leave the area open for just 
> streamlined equipment.  There is currently no club equipment on any 
> track in the station, and I don't recall seeing the ACE train anywhere.*
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> *See y'all tomorrow night.*
> *Dennis
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