It sounds like Jon has problems with the Adobe reader, which has definitely become more unusable with time. Fortunately PDF is a well known file format and as long as you can download the file,

Lester, Page 68 of PRR Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment (vol 1) by Sweetland and Yanosey, shows NX 8850, a former PRR R7 in dry ice service in May 1963. The photo shows "DRY ICE"

OK, here it is again. Butyl cellosolve (2-butoxy ethanol) is available in one gallon cans at large Sherwin Williams Paint stores (it is used by professional cabinet makers to slow down lacquer drying,

The line to Saltville was an N&W branch line. I read somewhere that it was one of the most prosperous branch lines on the N&W. That’s hard to believe considering the coal traffic on the N&W but I do

Sorry, that was (obviously) intended just for Jon. Jack Burgess

Or you can read it on line at http://mrhpub.com/2015-02-feb/port/ The tank car article is on page 40. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Jon… It shouldn’t be a “install” problem…you just needed to download it to your own computer. Once downloaded, click on the file and it should open in Adobe Reader, a free program

Jon Miller wrote: Computer problems are, of course, off topic for this list, but there IS some fine freight car info in the February MRH. Keep trying other avenues, Jon. And BTW, it is hardly

Friends, Saltville was an interesting place. Once a huge producer of chemicals, especially nitrates, it is now a shell of its former self. There are several locomotives plinthed in the

I'd really like to look at this but Adobe just will not cooperate. It keeps saying it won't install with IE and when I shut IE off then it still doesn't install the latest version. --

If you have RPR Cyc 15, there is a photo of a Mathieson Dry Ice reefer on page 77. Photo taken in Saltville, VA in 1952. Hope that helps. Matthew Hurst

Can't help with prototype photos of the R7 car but there are a number of photos of the rather odd looking ACF cars built for Matheison in the early 1930s. Early kits for different versions these cars

After finishing a Westerfield resin DS MILW box car I thought it might be fun to build a Ambroid Company wood Mathieson Dry Ice refrigerator, kit No 7, in the One of Five Thousand series that I

Thanks. That set must be new. Original stirrups on those Intermountain reefers are very fragile. What size drill are you using? I've been cutting the individual stirrups from the fret (?) with the

Ed, Photo-etched hatch stops are included in the Yarmouth YMW-215 fret for SFRD reefers. Peter Aue

Russ Strotz posted on the Railway Bull Shippers List in 2007 about the initial 1959 CB&Q TOFC meat service into Chicago from American Stores in Lincoln NE. These were very hot cars and watched

While this is not a prototype photo, I think it demonstrates the image. Weaver 50 ft Lackawanna Phoebe Snow TOFC w/ 35 ft trailer LN John Howard Weaver 50 ft

I would strongly suggest that it is a DL&W trailer -- the style and letteing scheme fits (angled Route of Phoebe Snow lettering, similar to the boxcars), as does the silver roof. That flat car is not

Ed, Bend towards the fold lines… ie they are on the inside of the bend, not the outside. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL https://www5.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Some

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Bill; Those were also two of the big decision-makers in formatting TKM. Sufficient space to write up as much material as we the authors thought