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hosted by: Ryan Andersen & Will Ayerst
Model Railcast Show #24
Sun, Aug 3, 2008
Posted by: Ryan Andersen

MRC Show # 24 Notes - Passengers abound!

  • Crew Lounge: An update of our own projects at ModelRailCast and what's going on with the main site.
  • Roundhouse:  The history and usage of passenger cars.
  • Coaling Tower: Another book duo we found particularly useful.
  • Archives: The history and usage of passenger cars (combined into RH)
  • TYRTH: 1972
  • Branch Line: -
  • Interchange: Our 'links of the week' summarised here for you!

Download the enhanced (better sounding) version of the show with chapters:  MRC Show 24 (AAC)

Crew Lounge
Will update: Mikado inbound, and raising the question 'what's good enough?'
Ryan Update: On30 for the LMRR?
Site Update: -
Show Update: Christmas in July -many supporters donating equipment, literature and gifts to the MRCS - thanks!

Railway Post Office
Feedback and updates from all of our listeners! And of course, a new segment 'Rail Hobby News'.

Roundhouse
How the passenger car changed over the years, how it's used and how you can apply it to your own layout.

Coaling Tower
We discuss The Model Railroader's Guide To Passenger Equipment & Operation by Andy Sperandeo, which helped out our Roundhouse/Archives section, and John White - The American Railroad Passenger Car.

Archives
This week, this section is rolled into the Roundhouse as a one-two punch on the Passenger car theme.

Branch Line
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This Random Year in Train History
1972 was the year picked by the random number generator for this week - next week is 1896!

Interchange

 

Download the enhanced (better sounding) version of the show with chapters:  MRC Show 24 (AAC)
 

 
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Posted by: MILWJKD on Mon, Aug 4 2008    
Great show, guys.

You were looking for suggestions for the new product segment. How about "The Arrival Track"?
Posted by: Ironsiderodger MRCS Pioneer on Tue, Aug 5 2008     www.ironsaddcasts.mypodcast.com
Hey guys- another great show! Great roundhouse as well- what a palatable breakdown of the passenger car. Just for the record, I love both the single part and multi-part roundhouse features, for instance the last multi-part on "building a model Railroad you can be proud of" was outstanding and well timed. MILWJKD has a good name there in "arrival track". Jay your contribution was well timed and delivered, it was great hearing you.

This was really good show, even parts where there was digression were just so smooth and attention holding.

I had a chance to ride in a vista-dome car on the old Capital Bound which used to combine with the Broadway Limited; that was truly cool and a vivid reminder of the elegance of rail travel. That being said, I've traveled extensively by air and by train- and even now Amtrak whips any airline service, hands down.
Posted by: RobHinkle MRCS Pioneer on Tue, Aug 5 2008    
Another great show as always.

Will - On your topic of leaving feedback after each show, I think it's something quick that we all can do here to let you guys that we highly appreciate all of the hard work you guys do in order to put together the weekly content. Most of the time I don't say much about the show other than it was great and informative but I figure that's better than having 600+ downloads and silence

Topics - I like having multi part topic discussions since there is so much information that can be learned about every single topic out there. Almost every show I learn something that I didn't know before and its a great plus. I equate doing a multi part topic to what MR does with a lot of their layout projects, they will be broken down over 4 or so Issues like the current one on David Popp's layout; the obviously benefit to having the weekly show is that we don't have to wait 4 months to get to the end of any line of discussion.

TRYTH - I was digging around Wikipedia and found out that they actually have a section about Rail Transport in History, if anyone wanted to check it out the link is Wikipedia
Posted by: ironsidejackson on Tue, Aug 5 2008     Youtube.com/Milwaukeeroad261
Great show you guys. i really liked the passenger car part
Posted by: jfugate MRCS Sponsor on Wed, Aug 6 2008     http://siskiyou-railfan.net
Enjoyed the show as always, guys!

Ryan, glad you like the camera ... looking forward to seeing some cool content you've shot with it.

For the rest of those listeners - we've upgraded to all High Definition video cameras for our video mastering, so I asked Ryan if he wanted the Standard Definition camera we used to shoot my video volumes 1-3. It's a nice prosumer level camera with a lot of life still left in it, so Ryan said "you bet!"

I'm happy to give Ryan and company a boost in this way, since they're a highly motivated crew and I expect we'll all benefit as a result!
Posted by: Douglas on Wed, Aug 6 2008    
Another great show guys. RobHinkle hit it right on the nose about learning something new on almost every show. I love learning about trains and the modeling of trains.

I saw a tv program that showed a few of the 1950 observation cars being 'revamped' with a whole crew of carpenters and electricians to get the 'old car' feel but with all the modern days high-tech goodies including wi-fi. Not to mention they put on new 'trucks' for a much smoother ride.

Train Fact For 1896
May 27, 1896 - Chicago and Alton passenger train (No 7) was crossing the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi river when the Great Cyclone of 1896 hit the area. The winds
at first shook the cars from side to side. The overhead telegraph poles started snapping and large stones shaken loose from the bridge's foundation.
Fearing the bridge would collapse with the train still on it, Engineer William Swoncutt opened the throttle to full steam and he raced to the Illinois side of the river. About 200 feet from the shore, an upper span of the bridge blew away and tons of granite blocks hit the tracks just where Number 7's cars had been. As soon as the train made the shore, it was blown off the tracks as the tornado tossed the passenger cars like playthings.
There was no deaths but plenty of injures.
Later inspection of the site revealed the entire upper portion of the bridge had been carried away and the recently crossed tracks now lay buried beneath the debris, in places piled as much as 8 feet high.

Ryan and Will Pushing The Throttle To Full Steam...Only On The Model Rail Cast Show!!!
Posted by: CVSNE MRCS Pioneer on Thu, Aug 7 2008     snery.com
Ryan,

I was just listening to the show and heard you mention John White's passenger car books. He also wrote books on freight cars and locomotives. If you have even a passing interest in 19th century railroading you won't be disappointed. If you're really interested in 19th century railroading you'll be thrilled!!

Dr. White was the curator of the transportation museum for the Smithsonian for many years - his research is impeccable and his writing style extremely engaging - he even made the development of freight car brakes sound interesting!

Marty
 
 
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