Tim, that may well be how Walthers did their model, That would mean the (model) containers are twice as long as wide. If these prototypes are the same shape as the model you describe, then they

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Thank you both that is the name of the company and it explains how it couldoperate! gary laakso south of Mike Brock

Tim, Actually no that was not the purpose in me asking about the time frame. I had no issue with the 3 cylinder discussion at all and I know where the delete key is if I do not care for a thread

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Tom Madden wrote: Banana messengers were common. Ripening of the banana is quite sensitive to temperature, and the purpose of the messengers was to respond if outside temperature changed more than

I have some old unused Missouri Pacific 'Banana Messenger' cards that describe the name of the messenger, hair and eye color and height so the Mop had them too. Charlie Duckworth

I misspoke. The linking B&O linking 13 states herald was used in only three sizes, 12", 25", and 36" (not 33 inch), between 1945 and 1963. The 12 inch herald was for flat cars. The 25 inch was

Jim: You are correct “Pacific Traction” atleast I got half of the name correct. Thanks Paul C. Koehler From:STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 201512:05 PM To:

There was Pacific Traction {wood/painted/lettered/many roads) freight cars, produced I believe by a doctor, as patient therapy, in San Diego......The cars were less trucks and couplers and I have a

I got 0.015625 pounds, but who¹s counting? Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Reply-To: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 1:54

Arved stick to photography, you're a little weak in arithmetic... :-) Try 500,000 lbs divided by 30,000,000 -- that's 1/4 oz per car per year, or an average of one stick-on weight per car. Which is

Gary: You might be thinking about “PacificHO” out of San Diego they did produce wood cars like you describe that wevery close to an SP 1 ½ single sheathed boxcar. My recollection was that

My 2 cents again. Those Youngstown bulk containers (as modeled by Walthers) take up the full width of the gondola if you load them crosswise. If you load them lengthwise, you can get 2 abreast. In

At least as long as lead-acid batteries remain popular, I'd say. It's been pointed out that there are roughly 30 million cars registered in California. Divided by 500,000 lbs of lead, that means the

On 1/20/2015 11:06 AM, Tim O'Connor timboconnor@... [STMFC] wrote: Good thing they are not used in freight cars or no trains would be running. And as for the way back

Few if any didn't have fishbelly underframes and I cant't think of any 50 ft SS box cars that had composite ends except SP. The kit was a hybrid of Qcraft's 1974 40 ft MILW SS, door and a half box

I am of the opinion that all these containers are the same size and shape. In the car on the right you can see containers next to each other, crosswise and lengthwise. It's clear to me that the width