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Re: soft iron foil

Google is your friend. Yes, iron foil is out there. It would tend to be stiffer than aluminum foil of the same thickness so you you would need to get it thinner to get similar flexibility. Be

By Charles Peck · #131259 ·

Re: PS-1 Roofwalks

Bill Pardie asked: "Does anyone know if the C&O used a specific brand of roofwalk on their PS-1 Boxcars. I would have thought that they were all the same, however, I remembered that the WP used

By Benjamin Hom · #131258 ·

Re: PFE cars loaded with bananas

Friends, When I was stationed in Long Beach in the late 1970s, bananas were still arriving there by ship. IIRC, the landing point was Terminal Island right next to the huge coke loading

By Garth Groff <sarahsan@...> · #131257 ·

NEW KADEE BOXCAR

While thinking about PS-1 boxcars I recalled that at Lysle last October that Kadee announced that they would have a new boxcar by the end of the year. The end of the year has come and gone. Has

By WILLIAM PARDIE · #131256 ·

Re: soft iron foil

Try steel shim stock. It will be fully hard, but if you anneal it, it should behave as you expect. I've bought shim stock through McMaster-Carr, but any good hardware store or industrial supply house

By arved_grass · #131255 ·

waterside oil terminals

Around New York City gasoline and home heating oil are delivered by water to local terminals. Were tank cars loaded at waterside side oil terminals out in the country like Newburgh, NY? Am I

By ed_mines · #131254 ·

PS-1 Roofwalks

Does anyone know if the C&O used a specific brand of roofwalk on their PS-1 Boxcars. I would have thought that they were all the same, however, I remembered that the WP used Morton roofwalks on their

By WILLIAM PARDIE · #131253 ·

Re: PFE cars loaded with bananas

Ed Mineswrote: I know for sure about Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Orleans. Whether Houston/Galveston or other Texas ports were also active through PFE, I am not sure, but it seems logical,

By Tony Thompson · #131252 ·

soft iron foil

Is soft iron made in thin sheets than can be crumpled like aluminum foil? Ed Mines

By ed_mines · #131251 ·

PFE cars loaded with bananas

Tony, any idea what ports PFE cars were loaded with bananas? Erie had leased reefers; I guess they made more money loading their own cars. Ed Mines

By ed_mines · #131250 ·

Re: Bananas

Friends I'm sorry, I just lost it when I found out about banana drovers! Care and feeding of the banana herd is a serious business, and we mustn't have any fun at the expense of our noble fruit... My

By Tim O'Connor · #131249 ·

Re: Bananas

<<Failing a reputable citation, my conclusion: Tim's pulling out leg.>> Yes, But whose leg is he pulling out, and why????? . . . . ;-{) Steve Haas Snoqualmie, WA

By Steve Haas · #131248 ·

Re: interesting gondola load

Todd, you're probably correct. My guess was based on the proximity of the wreck to either Dundalk Marine Terminal (Baltimore) and the port of Philadelphia/Camden. The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in '58

By Dave Lawler · #131247 ·

Re: Bananas

Jeffrey White wrote: Whether this was true on the IC or not, I don't know, but PFE documents clearly identify the banana messengers as responsible for the welfare of the cargo (in that way, much

By Tony Thompson · #131246 ·

PRR H30 Covered Hopper

In Message #123512 Elden Gatwood listed the commoditieshauled in Pennsylvania’sH32 covered hoppers and noted these car were seen outside of PRR’s territory. Iassume the same commodity list applied

By thecitrusbelt@... · #131245 ·

Re: Bananas

After spending significantly more time researching this than I did computing the average weight of lead lost on California's roads, I concur. I couldn't find a single reference to anything other than

By arved_grass · #131244 ·

Re: Bananas

"This is the origin of the term 'second banana.'" Sounds more like some original baloney to me. "Top banana," etc., are show-biz terms dating to the old vaudeville days. Andy

By Andy Sperandeo · #131243 ·

Re: UTLX Tank Car Designations

Steve: Thanks, this too is very helpful. The 94785 number is consistent with my 1935 OERE, but not the 1930, suggesting an early 1930s acquisition by Union. The 77340 number is consistent with

By Dave Parker · #131242 ·

Re: interesting gondola load

I agree with Dave that the load was of crates of some type much longer in one dimension than the other two. There appears to be packing material surrounding some type object that I have no clue what

By rwitt_2000 · #131241 ·

Re: Container gons from NKP

Tim ( O'Connor). I think we are in agreement, but I don't understand your point. My point was that if the containers in the photo were 9' long, like the Walthers model, and were set 6 of them

By hayden_tom@... · #131240 ·

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