Appalachia, VA. These car loads were known as “Yellow Balls”
because the hoppers were marked with large yellow dots and
are stenciled with “Andover Service Only”. When cars needed
anything more than minor repair or were wrecked they were
generally scrapped on site.
Some other aspects I wanted to include in the new design were
a section of track where the Southern would have track-age
rights over the L&N. This section of track will be a single track
mainline. The L&N Corbin-to-Atlanta mainline travels through
a beautiful but relatively unknown gorge just south of the
Kentucky-Tennessee Line following Hickory Creek. I chose this
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4: I mounted the aluminum equipment frame to floor.
Holes were drilled into the concrete floor and secured
with Wedge Anchors. With mounting the frames to
the floor I need to be fairly accurate with my locations.
Moving benchwork around is not much of an option
without a lot of extra work.
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