Ask Trains.com May 2024 compilation | Our host Cody Grivno addresses a wide array of modeling and prototype railroading questions. In this edition he’ll provide insights about the specific use of two different 1:1 scale covered hoppers; how to model your own track cleaning car, which locomotive is appropriate to select when modeling grain elevator operations; and so much more!
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Ask Trains.com is a regular video feature of Trains.com for magazine subscribers and Trains.com members, where editors answer the questions readers and viewers are asking.
Special guests can include editors and contributors from Model Railroader, Trains, Classic Toy Trains, Garden Railways and Trains.com.
Questions can be about any railroad or model railroading topic, including on the fan configuration on an SD45. These can include questions about railroad operating practices, railroad lantern manufacturer details, model locomotive details, and toy train transformers, among others.
Trains.com and Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno works through many of these questions, which are posted twice a week, each week, all year! See all our answers to questions online!
Hi Cody!
A while back I bought a nice bottle of easy flowing ACC cement at StaR Hobby in Annapolis, MD.
How do I clean off the tapered outside of the applicator tube?
There so much accumulated glue that can’t even open the bottle with large pliers. There is a lot of ACC left in the bottle and I hate to throw it away.
Amby N
Team tracks have been around a long time and were originally named for the teams of horses used to pull the wagons picking up merchandise. They are often a feature in modern industrial parks that provide rail service to both fixed and floating customers.
Thanks Cody for another good video. Kalmbach should have more of your programs, I miss Cody’s Office. Thanks again for some interesting ideas and comments.