Turner Classic Movies John B. Allyn

Try http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498400/Roaring-Rails/ Don Burn

Al, I cannot find a TCM channel. Does it go by a full name or some other alias. Joel Holmes

FWIW, I agree with Greg and suggest that the rule be changed to reflect a requirement that anyone posting messages regard the selling of products by a commercial enterprise be required to at a

I check Shorpy a few times a week to review the images. I especially enjoy the Pittsburgh images as I grew up not far from the Burgh and made many trips into and through the city to visit extended

I should just skip over Scotty Mason ad messages, the same as I would skip over a message concerning CB&Q cabooses circa 1903. Or an Algoma Central camp car. Not everything has to be about my

Sounds like you're on the wrong list if you don't give a "big fat hairy" whatever. I think the purpose of this list is pointing out the finer points and modeling accordingly. You can take shortcuts or

Next Wednesday morning at 1;30 am ET TCM is showing the 1924 film Roaring Rails. Not much is known about the film with only one review on IMDb. Al Westerfield

My answer to the below -- no and yes. I have need for, and have built three so far, Mopac homebuilt (DeSoto) 1937 flats that are just a few inches off from the Red Caboose car, but with 13 stake

The upside to those obligations might be the reason for accepting common carrier status. As I understand it, such "niceties" like the ability to use eminent domain to acquire land rights, or the

Maybe I should made the question "What do you define and call the "non-common carrier" railroads?  If you run a line to mine and back down  35 miles to a tipple? . . . or a railroad that shifts

Al Almost all the railroads we discuss here were common carriers in the STMFC era. A common carrier was obligated to carry any cargo of any amount that could feasibly be moved by rail. So a common

Technically, Ray, only 1,500 years old. :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals

So is it likely that these cars were used for crews that went to install a new bridge? Note that the car on the right is an old refrigerator car and look at the trucks. Cyril Durrenberger

Jim When I mentioned the SAL car and CofG car had 11 and 12 stake pockets respectively I was thinking of Tichy's model. To change the positions and/or number of the stake pockets on the Tichy car is

Al Kresse wrote: A common carrier accepts certain obligations, including serving all customers equally, no matter how they show up. Obviously a company short line would not want and could not

Yes, these are clearly camp cars, or work train cars, and equally obviously, these are retirees from some railroad which sold them to American Bridge. Those look to me to be cars from the mid-to-late

Mike, I fully understand the rules but what I object to is that this email has come from someone who does not participate in this forum accept when he has something to sell and to me that is

Is there a definition of what is a "common carrier" railroad is vs something that is specifically built to extract coal or ore or timber, or serviced a blast furnace or steel mill (industrial

It is obvious that the American Bridge cars are camp cars; an interesting but by no means unusual example of camp cars owned by a contractor as opposed to being owned by a railroad. Data on privately