OK, Here's one for you...garnets. Yes, I use garnets to model broken brown
glass. Not gem quality ones, but the industrial kind that they use to make
sandpaper. Years ago some one gave me a coffee can filled with tiny shiney
reddish-brown stones that came from a garnet mine in North Creek, NY (on the
D&H). They thought that I could use it for ballast or something, but it was
way too shiney for that. So, I use it to represent broken glass and spilled
ladding in the yard area. Problem is that finding the stuff is difficult
unless you live near an industrial abrasives company.
Of course, modelling clear and green glass could get expensive if you follow
the same logic and use diamonds and emeralds.
Bob Frascella
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Stan S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think Rich is right. I suspect it's mostly moved by truck or in a
> > covered hopper.
>
> The new SHS catalog illustrates the 1970's blue and yellow City of Oneonta
> Glass Recycl
> (that was the spelling on many or all of the cars) scheme on the fishbelly
> open hoppers.
> This is correct. There were also offset side hoppers in this service. The
> cars ended up in
> MOW use during the Guilford era.
>
> I did this scheme on a USRA hopper. The load consists of bits of clear (and
> a few
> transparent brown & green) styrene embedded in a lot of clear silicone
> caulk. It always
> gets comments.
>
> Stan Stokrocki
>
>
>
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