Richard,
The milley seeds was used by Bill Tulley for beets on the ground, they look
very good, he got them from bird seed, you by at the store, picked them out one
by one. He also scratch built a beet loader that is at the dumps, got 3rd place
at region convention and a merit award, very good model.
Harold Huber
Dugway, UT (ex Sheridanite)
Richard Patterson <rpatter@t...> wrote:
Val,
I grew up in Torrington, just up the river from Scottsbluff. Anyway, after
hearing the various suggestions, I went on-line and found seeds. The anise
seeds look the best to me and they are available in bulk (5# for less than 20
bucks!). If I make foam blocks for the cars and foam forms for the piles, I
should be able to cover them with the seeds using the "bonded ballast" method.
The only problem I anticipate might be the smell. Unstead of the protoypical
sugar beet smell, anise is what's used to flavor licorice! Should be
interesting.
Rick Patterson
From: Val Nelson
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Sugar beets
Of the loads that Walthers carries, the Chooch loads look the best to me.
I tend to try to be innovative when I do stuff like this. Sometimes my ideas
work and a lot of the time they don't. lol But that's all part of the fun, so
it's all good.
I grew up in the southern Nebraska Panhandle almost near the North Platte river
valley (Scottsbluff area) and the sugar beat loads were always a pale white and
lavendar-ish
color when they were harvested. But in the stock piles, the beats turn brown
and look a lot like giant sweet potatoe skins. From the ground, the beats in
hopper cars look
almost like giant spit-balls. Maybe (I'm brainstorming here) you could do
something with crepe/tissue paper or Kleenex or toilet paper, if you have the
time to experiment.
lol Also, very-course saw dust could work, especially wood chips from balsa
wood or some other white wood. You never know until you try something. -Val
Ken Martin wrote:
> Rick,
>
> I once saw a model Suffering Pathetic car with a load of sugar beets
> made from some seeds, looked great. I want to say they were caraway
> seeds but don't quote me on that. Since I can't recall for certain, I
> looked at Walther's web site and found Chooch has two sugar beet loads
> and Detail Associates will TBA.
>
> Good luck with the factory.
>
> Ken Martin
>
> Richard Patterson wrote:
> >
> > I am beginning the installation of a sugar factory and need some advice.
> > Does anyone on the list have suggestions as to what might be used to model
> > sugar beets in HO?
> > Thanks,
> > Rick Patterson
> > Worland, Wyoming
> >
>
>
>
>
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