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Re: Soo boxcar trucks

One more question for the Soo knowledgeable. One of the Branchline 1430 40' decorated cars, marked NEW 11-51 and with the words SOO LINE high and close to the door, has black (car cement) ends. My

By mopacfirst · #102056 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

Oh, that this were the case. (steam-era content follows) I was on the northbound Coast Starlight a couple years ago. Through all those curves on Cuesta hill, I was in the lounge car with fifty

By mopacfirst · #102055 ·

corn syrup tank cars

Not to mention that MILW box car! Photo date Sept 1939 -- Jack's YV

By Tim O'Connor · #102053 ·

corn syrup tank cars

Not to mention that MILW box car! Photo date Sept 1939 -- Jack's YV

By Tim O'Connor · #102054 ·

Re: Morton running boards

Bud, Have you been to the Steam Era Freight Cars sight and checked the boxcar data there? If not, here is a link... http://www.steamfreightcars.com/prototype/frtcars/protofrtcarsmain.html -John

By John Hile · #102052 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

I'll call your bet, and raise

By Tim O'Connor · #102050 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

Tom, in my case, with the current version of Opera, it failed twice, and worked twice, using the same address, pasted into 4 different windows. Go figure. On a better note, there are a few more

By Steve Stull · #102049 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

Tim, I'll see your "even better" and raise you a "best"... with the following link : http://www.shorpy.com/node/10695?size=_original Tom, All the record... all of the links have worked fine for

By John Degnan <Scaler164@...> · #102048 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

Tim O'Connor wrote: Or an LP or a typewriter or a transistor radio . . . the list is unfortunately readily expandable. Young railfans may be confused by ice reefers or running boards or even

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #102047 ·

Re: Morton running boards

Tim O'Connor wrote: Thanks for the kind words, Tim, about my RMC article. But that was well before I had found ALL the prototype data, now collected in my volume on SP box cars (Vol. 4 of the

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #102046 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

lol! Bill there are hundreds of millions of youngsters who don't even know what a videotape is (is that like a DVD?), much less coal smoke. I mentioned Prohibition this morning to my 15 yr old

By Tim O'Connor · #102045 ·

Re: Morton running boards

Jim It's not always a fool's errand. Tony Thompson back in 1993 wrote an article on SP 40' steel box cars that covered ALL of the permutations of running boards, doors, trucks, and brakes -- It is

By Tim O'Connor · #102044 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

Hello Group, Oh, and the smell of all that coal smoke. That is something I miss already. And I bet in the future -- say year 2011-- there will be people that have never had a whiff of it in their

By William Keene <wakeene@...> · #102043 ·

Re: Morton running boards

In B&O files located in various places, there are a number of Bills of Materials for B&O freight car orders existing for study. These are jaw droppingly insightful. B&O ( ..... and I assume other

By Jim Mischke · #102042 ·

Re: FGE Fruit Growers banana emblem?

Thanks Bill. Too bad it has swing doors, or Accurail could use this emblem on their new 40' plug door reefers. Tim O'Connor

By Tim O'Connor · #102041 ·

Re: covered hopper pneumatic discharge

Dennis Ahem. I'll offer a gentle reminder that airslides all use pneumatic outlets, and they began to appear in 1954. Even gravity-pneumatic outlets were offered by 1960, if not earlier. The 1961 CBC

By Tim O'Connor · #102040 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

Unless they are drovers, of course, in which case their olfactory senses would have been obliterated long since. Barry Bennett. writes: Bruce sent me the link in an off-list email, and it

By Barrybennetttoo@... · #102039 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

Tom, I doubt that the stock car critters would complain, but.... Chuck Hladik tcmadden@q.com writes: Bruce sent me the link in an off-list email, and it worked from there. Why it didn't

By Charles Hladik · #102051 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo

Bruce sent me the link in an off-list email, and it worked from there. Why it didn't work from the link in Tim's post when I read it on the web, I don't know. Same link, as far as I can tell. I never

By pullmanboss <tcmadden@...> · #102038 ·

Re: Another interesting Shorpy photo Problems?

I had absolutely no problem in Google Chrome, Firefox, IE. Firefox is my default, so that was first. Google is faster than any, and it was second. IE being my least favorite, was last, but no

By PennsyNut <pennsynut@...> · #102037 ·

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