Charlie Protocraft made an HO C&EI box car set but I think it's been discontinued. Tim

---In STMFC@..., <jayrs9@...> wrote : 1. Many of the prototype photos seam to show the side sheathing sitting on top of the floor, suggesting that the floor boards run from the edge of the side

I'd like to decal my HO P2k Mather boxcar as a C&EI car. Are there any decals available for this car or some that are close? Charlie Duckworth

Richard, grains of all sorts were shipped in boxcars, including corn. But the corn was husked, shelled and dried before shipping. All photos I have seen show the dried kernels being loaded into

Hello Group: My name is Richard Stallworth and I am an old member who just returned to model railroading. Parenthood distracted me for a long time. Anyway I've been following the conversation

Tim, With regard to WLE 24000-24199, built ca. 1-41, ACF lot 2137, any earlier reference I made about these cars having 4-5 ends was incorrect. The builder photo of WLE 24080 and the ACF bill of

Hi, I have a couple questions about the floor in a USRA single sheathed box cars. 1. Many of the prototype photos seam to show the side sheathing sitting on top of the floor, suggesting that the floor

Bob As far as the W&LE car number it looks pretty clear to me -- 2411x -- However according to Ed Hawkins email 3-13-2013 W&LE series 24000-24199 were ACF-built cars with Pullman roofs and 4/5 ends

Bob Witt wrote: No. Richard and I both used those ends for various projects, and they certainly are not DA ends. I understand your point, but can't answer. Possibly he had the Mantua body

Absolutely -- large breweries malted their own barley on site or in the same city. Large breweries had the large amounts of capital $$ and influence to become almost completely vertically integrated.

This reminds me of an axiom shared with me by a civil engineer when I was in college -- cement is to concrete as flour is to bread. Rick Woods BS Ceramic Eng '86 UIUC

Thank you, Bob, I kind of wondered . . . So, going back to my original question . . . "But as is all too often the case, I'm distracted by the box car in the prototype photo, because of the end

Could they be Detail Associates GS gondola ends? Isn't the Accurail model very close to the WLE gondola as is so it leaves little reason to graph Accurail ends to an old Mantua body? Bob Witt

To the Group: I really made a muddle of my comments about these box car ends. Offline someone kindly pointed out my error. Maybe I need new glasses, but after looking at the photo with the end view of

Schuyler is right. Most people have now clue that cement is just an ingredient of concrete, and give a “look’ when you point that out. 1 bag of cement = 1 cubic foot of cement = 94 lbs

My experience (slim and dated though it is) tells me that malt is much less durable than the unmalted barley. I know that at least in San Francisco the barley came to one or more commercial malt

My experience (slim and dated though it is) tells me that malt is much less durable than the unmalted barley. I know that at least in San Francisco the barley came to one or more commercial malt

Tony and Friends, Is there evidence that large breweries did their own malting on site? If that was the case, then we should be talking about bulk grain, mostly barley. Your

Steve Lucas wrote: My dictionary, admittedly American, defines "wooden" as meaning "made of or consisting of wood." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

Um, Tony-- That deck would be a "wood" deck, not a "wooden" deck--wouldn't it?? (The use of the words "would, wood, wooden, wouldn't" were noticed after I wrote this. :) Steve Lucas.