Thanks, Richard. I may rise to this challenge. As for the trucks, the reason I have the gon is that I came into a set of Eastern Car Works Taylor trucks and wanted something to put on top of

For those coming down to Florida...Cocoa Beach...for Prototype Rails 2012...you may have noted my weather forecast that I issued back in Oct<?> calling for a temp in the 70's. Well...here's the

Rich, I have a photo of Reading USRA gon 23019 loaded with Reading steel containers. I can send it you and anyone else that is interested. I'm thinking Walthers at one time or another sold these

You missed some of the thread which stated that updating Waybills was common. What I do know comes from actual "feeding station" records. Looking at 281 cars loads at Purcell, OK, in Aug-Sept 1939,

Does anyone make a plastic or resin kit in HO for a 10,000 gallon vertical course tank car? Not looking for brass or smaller capacity tanks. David Thompson

The Wilson set I did was for a 36' car. The scheme was used on 40' cars as well. I will try to dig up some pics on them for you Jerry

I have to call on this. Grain milling in transit did NOT require reshipment in the same car. It did require the new waybill to reference to original way bill(s) for the continuing load. Several

Richard, I agree with Bruce; steel products would be a common load in Reading mill gons. However, I'm attaching a photo which shows a ductwork load that would certainly be interesting and

Folks, I wanted to let you know that today is the start of the PRR Project (PRRPro) group's PRR XL class modeling project. PRRPro is a Yahoo Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PRRPro) devoted to

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Richard, How about a big box? It could hold anything. Crates were common steam era gon loads. Alternatively, gons carried pipes, poles, steel plate, steel shapes... and the list goes on and on and

Jerry,and Bill,      Happy New Year!      Have forwarded the WILSON Reefer artwork to Bill for future reference.      Since, Bill is going to have the ART fishbellly underframe ready

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Correct. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510)

Dan Holbrook wrote: Dan is the expert, and I stand corrected. I have seen waybills with reference to a previous waybill but none I have seen explained why the change. Tony Thompson

Tony writes in reply: "Not true at all. Waybills were often altered and corrected. Jerry Stewart, who worked for years as a car clerk, stated to me that only a minority of waybills, probably

I have a Walthers USRA gondola painted and lettered for the Reading RR. I'm trying to come up with a suitable and interesting load for it. My research on Reading, PA disclosed that the city is or

Except the Simplex bolster wasn't cast, it was fabricated, but using few rivets. It's selling point was the structural steel cross members, for those who didn't trust castings not to crack in service.

Greg's instructions for the DT&I gon are also available on the Shake'n'Take list web page in the files section. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shake_N_Take Tony, do I detect that you omitted

Waybills could have many notations and changes made to them, including weighing, diversion, icing, new instructions, rates, special requests etc....however, when lading was transfered from one car to

There was more than one Simplex bolster design too. The TLT truck is one. I have a hi-res 1967 picture of an SP flanger that has very different looking bolsters, but cast into the face is SIMPLEX.