“A couple years ago I exchanged email with a New England
Central employee about how the Palmer Industrial Park (in
Massachusetts) is switched. His comment about the return trip
was that if the weather was nice and there was a nice car to ride
back (like an empty center beam), he’d make sure the nice car was
on the right end and do the shove [2] back to the yard rather than
the runaround. The distance was probably a couple miles.
“I think there are two interesting points here:
- Don’t always do the same thing.
- If you’re going to shove back, there’s one more thing to con-
sider during switching; which car will end up on the head end.”
– Ken Rice
TIPS
Holding small details
For painting small detail parts,
I use a piece of electronics
breadboard or perf board [3]
and use MicroScale Kristal
Klear to mount the parts.
The Kristal Klear can be easily
softened with water after the
parts are painted.
– Dennis Blank Jr.
3
3. Glue small parts to perf
board for painting.
