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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Sun Jan 13, 2019 12:29 am

HONDO74 wrote:The Coronation Scot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrndSjtSdRY

Thank you, Hondo, what beautiful posters in that video.

I thought it was the Dutchess of Hamilton but the door hardware did not match the Dutches in the museum.

My sleuthing skills failed me on this one. Good job matching it to the Coronation Scot! :D

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Mitch » Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:23 am

Must be a great accomplishment to get a train out and onto the correct track in that can of worms. Looks tougher than an air traffic controllers radar screen. :)
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby E7 » Sun Jan 13, 2019 10:36 am

This will FRY your socks. There are some C. S. near the end.

https://youtu.be/4KYdfTKJYD8

You can find a pile of posts on OGR search Dream City Railway

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:55 pm

Mitch wrote:Must be a great accomplishment to get a train out and onto the correct track in that can of worms. Looks tougher than an air traffic controllers radar screen. :)

I hadn't thought of that. You make a really good point. I took the skills involved in a train traversing that gaggle of switches for granted when I saw that picture. Thanks for the heads-up, Mitch. I like how I often learn something when you make a posting. :)
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby rogruth » Sun Jan 13, 2019 3:08 pm

Remember it's a guy back in a tower throwing electrical switches or moving a lever of some kind that lines up all of that track for the train engineer to take his loco through. If he doesn't get it right, interlocking connections in the tower will not let it happen. Of course the engineer can still screw it up.
Very simplified description. An old Trains mag had a great article on how it was done.
Almost every major station had a mess of track that looked like that.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Sun Jan 13, 2019 3:14 pm

And my Thanks to you, too, Roger. It's good to learn stuff that is new to me. :D
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:15 am

E7 wrote:This will FRY your socks. There are some C. S. near the end.

https://youtu.be/4KYdfTKJYD8

You can find a pile of posts on OGR search Dream City Railway

Thank you E7. My socks aren't fried but it was interesting to see a UK 1/43 model railway bigger than a shoebox.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:53 pm

Whatzit?

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby robert. » Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:02 pm

Sulfur deposit.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:19 pm

No, not sulfur, another mineral. There are two possible answers, name the mineral or name what it is used for.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:19 pm

webenda wrote:No, not sulfur, another mineral. There are two possible answers, name the mineral or name what it is used for.


carnotite
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:17 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
webenda wrote:No, not sulfur, another mineral. There are two possible answers, name the mineral or name what it is used for.


carnotite

That is what I thought at first. Arizona has tons of carnotite, mostly on Indian Reservations (why there?).
There is a clue just above the whatzit mineral indicating it is not carnotite.

Next clue:
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby HONDO74 » Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:37 pm

Petrified tree......Copper ore

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:55 pm

HONDO74 wrote:Petrified tree......Copper ore

One of your guesses is on the right track but is not the whatzit.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby robert. » Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:15 pm

Margaritasite
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