The IC did interchange bananas, over the years, with the CB&Q at East Dubuque for the Twin Cities and beyond. A track along side the northbound Q main called the banana track was used for this

Sorry Ben. What I found was actually new P/L releases and I assumed it was a new model. My error. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Thanks all I'm building a Sparrow Point kit The screen is metal and seems to be too large. There are much finer screens available. I just found the picture of #130539 at the B&O wreck. The car end

Doug Harding wrote: "Bowser has just introduced a HO model of a K11 stockcar, which appears to have nice screening." "Just introduced"? This model has been on the market for almost 20 years! Ben

Ron, Bowser has just introduced a HO model of a K11 stockcar, which appears to have nice screening. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Argh...too late for this. Corrections inserted. ---In STMFC@..., <devans1@...> wrote : Gentlemen, How deep into Banana traffic do we want to go? I have the 1941-1945 ICC Class I railway freight

Hi Ron--Small builder's photo with diagram. E-461794-A - class K11 E-461794-A - class K11 Do you have any PRR diagrams that are not listed here? If so please

I'm looking for a picture of a PRR K-11 stock car. My interest is in the size of the screening for a model Any help would be appreciated. Ron Christensen

Dan Sweeney wrote: As always, remember that the railroad did NOT control routing, shippers did. If there was some advantage in time or rate to hand off at Dubuque, the shipper could so specify.

Here is the ICC”s 1% waybill data on Bananas – IIRC for 1950 or 1956, sorted by tons to destination state, descending: Illinois 101702 Ohio 88553 New

Very good question. The M&StL yahoo website references the IC conection in Albert Lea handling IC reefers with bananas into the Twin Cities. Part of the post lists state of MN blocking

This topic came up previously and I referenced that the CB&Q apparently had enough Banna Traffic in the Twin Cities to warrant building a sizeable distribution warehouse primarily for that traffic. I

Hmmm, not sure why the IC would short-haul itself by handing off to MILW at Dubuque. The IC had good service to the Twin Cities by handing off to the M&StL at Albert Lea (also with plenty of SB meat

Tim and Doug, Thanks so much for your information. I, too, think the roof is wood but wanted a more professional opinion than just my suspicions. The color on the ends IS hard to determine. For

From the Minnesota end, I also found what Howard stated to be true. The line beyond Dubuque that the banana traffic traveled on was the Milwaukee Road. From research years ago, the Northern Pacific

Thank you for excellent information. Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™ III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

Jeff Aley says: "Now, if you had included Prototype Rails [Cocoa Beach, FL] in that list then I wouldn't have complained. As it is, you might end up in Moderate Jail. :-)" Oh, I don't think we'll

THIS might get me in the lock-up because they were 1960s cars but the current issue of SRHA TIES has several articles on Southern's "Big John" covered hoppers to accompany the release of ExactRail's

In STMFC, George Eichelberger said, "I am working on a banana article for SRHA’s TIES magazine for later this year. If enough people find this kind of material interesting, it may be possible to

Ike, I wasn't going to complain about the bandwidth until you said, "it may be possible to suggest a presentation at this year's St. Louis and Kennesaw (Atlanta) RPMs." Now, if you had included