And the same truisms seem to apply to stock cars that "never ran off line". That Clinfield hopper is siting on a track that, based on photos, was used for interchange setouts/pick-ups. Pennsy & C&EI

Ben Thank you I cannot open the files as i do not have micro soft office on my computer it tells me i have do have it but i cannot activate it and i don't particularly want to buy it again it

Paul Doggett asked: "Can any one help with Southern Pacific weigh station initials particularly the ones outside of California." Did you check the group files section for that spreadsheet I

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Hi Guys Can any one help with Southern Pacific weigh station initials particularly the ones outside of California. Thank you Paul Doggett UK

Hi Folks I have been thinking a lot about what Dave Parker said below and we certainly do miss Richard, I know that I had him as a mentor in conversations by phone and over the internet for the last

would that be the Victor Chemical in Florida just north of Tarpon Springs? I believe it used Phosphate ore out of the Bone Valley to produce Elemental phosphorus or some other phosphorus based

I said: "A movie of a complete train is just one more data sample." I should have added that such movies provide a "wow" effect that a list of cars does not. One can perhaps be satisfied to know

Just a reminder that the deadline for bids will be noon, Pacific time, on Monday, November 17. I will notify winning bidders promptly with payment instructions. If you do not hear from me by 3 PM

Thanks Steve. You are of course correct that 60350 should be an insulated car (it's TMI in the 1935 OERE). I had a brain cramp when I rechecked the OERE today. Based on Richard's article, I think

Armand Premo says: "While a movie of a single train,on a given day may be of some value.There are too many variables involved in detemining such things as car count or regular consists." Well,

Mike, Now I am very jealous - to my knowledge there are very few known WWII era freight train consists for PRR Pittsburgh Division, nor movies of entire freight trains. And I am very reluctant to

If anyone lives near the Indiana Transportation Museum http://itm.org , or knows anyone else that dies, and can get access to the rolling stock **hopefully before it all gets too cold** and possibly

I know that Richard Hendrickson consultedwith Life Like on their Proto 2000 tank cars, so I would be somewhat confidentabout the numbering and lettering. But… The car would definitely not be

Thanks Tim I probably didn't express this well enough. Since N&W didn't serve this area and there's quite a string of N&W cars, this seems on first blush to be a movement of coal from one coal

 While a movie of a single train,on a given day maybe of some value.There are too many variables involved in detemining suchthings as car count or regular consists.This has been discussed before

It's long been claimed (usually by those who don't like the results) that photography is untrustworthy because photographers preferred the unusual. I think this is far too broad a generalization about

Allen Rueter wrote: The coke needs to break up cleanly after processing, and any "stickiness" or structure would be bad. But the broken coke needs some strength or structural capability so that

Dave Evans writes: "I expect this is era dependent, but through WWII, film photography was not an inexpensive hobby, and one would expect photographers to be biased to use their limited supply of

Tony, I always thought the most important attribute of Met. Coal was its caking structure that remains when baked into coke. -- Allen Rueter StLouis MO