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<big><b>Message From: Dennis Stokely <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dstokely@sbcglobal.net">dstokely@sbcglobal.net</a></b></big><br>
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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. <br>
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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:</big></big></b></div>
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thinned and repositioned cars in the hidden yard as noted above</big></big></b></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525394865642_20391"><b><big><big>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. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525394865642_20392"><b><big><big>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.</big></big></b></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525394865642_22579"><b><big><big>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.</big></big></b></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525394865642_22321"><b><big><big>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.</big></big></b></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525394865642_22118"><b><big><big>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.</big></big></b></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525394865642_22119"><b><big><big>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.</big></big></b></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525394865642_22121"><b><big><big>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.</big></big></b></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525394865642_22142"><b><big><big>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.</big></big></b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b><big><big>See y'all tomorrow night.</big></big></b></div>
<div dir="ltr"><b><big><big>Dennis <br>
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