I swore off Dullcote in a rattle can longago after a few upsetting splatter issues. I now use Model Master Lusterless(Flat) lacquer in a rattle can, product #1960. I’ve had no issues withthe

I’m surprised no one has mentionedthe PRR H30 covered hoppers that were built in 1936. They were

Doug, Very interesting data. Do they include the total tons, or head, for each livestock category by year? The ICC reports suggest rail livestock moves did not drop as significantly as this data

Tim, Lighten up. Your post mentioned that animal products were much more than livestock, so I provided additional data to show a breakdown in animal products between livestock and other shipments.

The C&O's pre-WW2 "covered hopper cars" are the 1937 and newer 1937 & 1945 C&O Freight Cars books. Cars were converted HMR 1932-1937 and new LO 1937-1938. Al Kresse

The C&O used "roofed-hopper cars" . . . covered regular hopper cars, sometimes with new steeper slope-sheets and hopper-door-bays. Al Kresse

My remedy for the "blobs' is to heat the spray can in a shallow tub of warm water. Then before I spray... a whole lota shakin goin on... :) Gordon Spalty

All About Tank Cars published by Standard Car Construction Company, 1919, can be viewed here. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu55808360;view=1up;seq=7 Downloads of more

In the NPRHA's The Mainstreeter, Vol 8 No. 4, Fall 1989, I with Matt Herson covered the "Acquisition of Covered Hoppers" by the NP, using primary sources from the NPR corporate records at the

I sprayed Future over Poly Scale flat and decalled the next day only to reduce the milky change in the gloss after using Micro-Set and Sol. The decals were printed by Rail Graphics. The milky look

The Santa Fe only had 10 in service before the war, the Ga-45 class built in 1936 by AC&F. Charlie Slater To: STMFC@... From: STMFC@... Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:20:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [STMFC]

Here are some numbers related to livestock “drive-ins”, which is what the USDA called any livestock arriving by truck or hoof. As you can see the numbers increased as trucks took over and rail

Dale, if you're going to deliberately misunderstand what I wrote, there's no point in continuing. Or perhaps you really don'tunderstand what ORIGINATE means. Elsewhere in the document I have are

Just follow the directions on the bottle ! If you put it on yourkitchen floor you certainly want to know how long to wait before you can walk onit!

Ray, I will be interested to see what you find - I wonder if data for Pennsylvania might be available. It would also be interesting to see what meat consumption was during the great depression - I

Tim, The 1941-1945 ICC steam RR annual reports break "animals and products" into 22 categories. While livestock movements are only a portion of that category, it is interesting to see the relative

Just to add to what Ray wrote: I can't find these HCCX cement cars in my 1930 ORER, but I have seen the pix, and the build date is indeed 12-28. They do, however, appear in my 1935 edition: 50

John, Volumes 27, 28, & 30 of Railway Prototype Cyclopedia devote 250 pages mainly to purpose-built ACF-design 1,958 cu. ft. covered hopper cars. Some were built before World War II not only by ACF

Carbon Black covered hoppers were first built around 1933 and travelled from carbon black plants to various industries involved in tyre production and printing supplies. I believe a tyre

The DL&W photo collection at Steamtown has a fascinating collection of six photos (X7126-X7132) showing HCCX/Hercules Portland Cement covered hoppers on a barge in Hoboken, taken on 4/1/1930. Zooming