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So I have a model railroad that has a full-scale candle production facility. It has a cutting facility, grinding facility, and melting facility. The grinding and melting facilitys are on my tracks. We carry everything on our tracks too from Non-Flammable gasses like cO2 and a bunch other.
The Cutting Facility is truck only.
Anyhow I was curious what are some good safety rules you all can suggest?
How do I go about keeping record of my inventory on the train cars?
Is it that important for me to have a record of whats on my train-cars?
I mean I know mentally how much wax I bring in and how many candles come out is that enough?
I just thought of it but the other one we need safety rules for is a O guage model train that will stretch 1 acre. This Train will be carrying Banded chert rock
we will have a mine in the yard and were gonna run the O guage track from the mine up 1 acre to my house's side yard where we will package and where-house the rock and sell online. were expecting our first train to hold anywhere from 50-90lbs of rock.
were gonna try to get new engines and keep raising the amount we can pull. 1 post war F3 engine can pull 100-150lbs of weight were hoping to have 4 engines instead of one in the future hopefully all veranda turbines since they weigh 11.5lbs per engine and are made of cast iron.
The goal is to use Coal Porters[bathtubs] and a Rotary dump for unloading and transport with a steel or concrete bin under the rotary as a catch bin then i was thinking of emptying the bin with shovels while each car goes into position.
the hope is to make a gradual incline for the train to bring the cars up to get to the rotary dump. on the other end at the mine the plan is to create a circle and keep going deeper and deeper using picks and shovels because really in reality where i live you hit rock 1" in the ground and its everywhere.
plus its a usable product turns out Missouri chert rock is used in rock tumbling. so it sells. so yeah any tips im open to them we also need help finding a good usable bedding that the birds wont eat.
