09-12-2016, 01:49 PM
doctorwayne Wrote:MountainMan Wrote:....There is some exotic stuff available form the rock shop.
If you plan on using some of it to represent flux ore, I hope that you'll post some photos to show it. At one time, before the layout I have now, I thought about bringing in ore from a mine somewhere else (probably unmodelled), but dropped the idea because a train of ore cars wasn't in the budget. It never occurred to me at the time that ore might have travelled in regular open hoppers (of which I had quite a few).
The Gibson Works mine is supposedly under nearby Lake Erie, and that locale was inspired by the salt mines at Goderich, Ont., which extend well out under Lake Huron.
Wayne
Be sure others know the choice so if we would like we can model the same style.
WOW, I just ran into this page and I'm loving it. Wayne has been emailing me for years about the goings on at GERN but I didn't know how well the biz has grown. I will for sure be adding a GERN to my layout and now I know it will be in detail. I'm having my layout focused on a quarry and cement plant and was thinking of a asphalt plant too. The asphalt could be GERN pavement. A new improved way to travel. 35% smoother roads. 10% longer lasting tires. The ideas can fly as I think of a red based asphalt because the rocks used or the tar is GERN FLUX or ... HOW FUN!
Has there been many ideas or modeling done of the modern GERN. Fast Forward to 2020 and GERN is a business grown beyond what could have ever been imagined.
Dave