Grain Elevator Modules              
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     The 'easy' end has alignment pin holes drilled and track installed part way across the module.  Will get the 'hard' end drilled this evening and maybe the track down onto the end of the module  

Garden City CO-OP
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Working on the other end of the grain elevator module set. This will be an 18ft

 long married set capable of handling two 20 car grain trains one inbound (empty)

 and one outbound (loaded). Anhydrous ammonia tanks will be located here as well to bring in nitrogen fertilizer by railcar   

More Module progress - These two modules are now fully operational                
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A crossover to the 10 as well as a crossover between the 8 and the 10 

A standard 3 track in/out "Fisher #1" 

Scenery will be rails through the countryside for scenery. 

Grain Elevator module -  

One end of a 3 module married set.

Includes a crossover on the mains - not that the mains are shifted 

4" to the front edge 

This allows for a bit more flexibility on the branchline scenery 

but makes it a non-standard mainline module that is married to 

the corresponding Grain elevator module that brings the mains back to the 

standard 8"/10" location from the front edge of the module.   

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Alignment pins are cut in 4 quadrants and then the kerfs are closed up by bending the tabs that are formed by the cuts resulting in a tapered pin to ease assembly 

Emery cloth and filing is required to deburr the pin and smooth the surfaces 

Four holes in each end of the modules with the pins in the left hand holes of each pair of holes. When joined each modules is aligned with 4 pins making for a precise and rigid joint. Pin location is relative to the RAILHEAD'slocation so rails are brought to the edge of the module and are aligned to within thousandths of an inch

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Sent from my mobile. Enjoy.
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Sent from my mobile. Enjoy.
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Update

This is an under construction shot of the 18ft straight module set 

that will become Garden City CO-OP. At this point nearly all the roadbed is down on the 3 modules. The two end modules are operational now (2015 update)