07-21-2013, 03:47 AM
Jack,
PM has been sent. It was the Herpa grain trailer I was looking for but the Lonestar is outstanding! I would like to have one or two of them.
Bruce,
thanks for the photo to make me feel good
I think the trailers I am using are manly used between grain processing and huge gain storage facilities e.g. in NJ. Smaller trucks and bottom unloading trailers are more common at the country side where farmers deliver their harvest to the local grain elevator/silo.
Looks like the size of the farm is an important fact. I found a lot of photos where the grain is loaded into smaller trucks like the F850 directly at the field but there are also photos where huge trailers get their load directly at the field. I saw a lot of medium size modern steel grain silos at the farm property in the Texas panhandle. Looks like the Ohio farmers have no private storage but use the next shared storage in the next town.
The new ground cover and a simple swap of trucks on the road permits to run Conrail on my layout too
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PM has been sent. It was the Herpa grain trailer I was looking for but the Lonestar is outstanding! I would like to have one or two of them.
Bruce,
thanks for the photo to make me feel good
I think the trailers I am using are manly used between grain processing and huge gain storage facilities e.g. in NJ. Smaller trucks and bottom unloading trailers are more common at the country side where farmers deliver their harvest to the local grain elevator/silo.Looks like the size of the farm is an important fact. I found a lot of photos where the grain is loaded into smaller trucks like the F850 directly at the field but there are also photos where huge trailers get their load directly at the field. I saw a lot of medium size modern steel grain silos at the farm property in the Texas panhandle. Looks like the Ohio farmers have no private storage but use the next shared storage in the next town.
The new ground cover and a simple swap of trucks on the road permits to run Conrail on my layout too
Reinhard