NRC had a reciprocal contract with NYC for express rfgr, each side supplying the other at times of year either may have a surplus. NRC cars were very prevalent in the Pacific Northwest. I can’t get

Hello, Another of our group who enjoyed railroad history and prototype rolling stock has passed on. Some of the members of this site I am guessing knew Cyril Durrenberger who had posts here on

Hello Everybody, It probably says "do not hump". John On Monday, March 14, 2016 11:34 AM, "'gary laakso' vasa0vasa@... [STMFC]" A variety of flat cars with US Army tanks

Thanks, Bruce and Ben! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> on behalf of STMFC List <STMFC@...> Reply-To: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Date: Monday,

Fellas, A couple additions to the thread: Naval rifles were also re lined in Idaho and a test range existed for this purpose. Turrets were regunned at Bremerton, WA and barrels transported via

Brian, In general, Watervliet… however, hehehe… not always. A prime example was the naval 16”/50 caliber Mark 2 gun. These were manufactured for the South Dakota and Lexington classes. Most

Brian Ehni wrote: "The US Army had 16” coastal batteries at various locations (San Francisco, Galveston, Panama, for example); would those have been made at Watervliet or Washington?" Watervliet,

Ben--No complaining here. Just an encouraging word to boost your efforts to add more time in the day. Photo info on FGE steel cars would fill a big hole. Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL

The US Army had 16” coastal batteries at various locations (San Francisco, Galveston, Panama, for example); would those have been made at Watervliet or Washington? Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From:

Bruce Smith wrote: "The production of naval rifles was almost completely assigned to the Washington Naval Gun Factory (to become Washington Navy Yard)." Not exactly true (but a bit complicated). The

Ed Mines wrote: "We've already seen a nice FGE write up by way of hand out. I would be happy to buy a hard copy of that hand out with pictures." The wood-sheathed car handout has been available as a

Don, Sorry, but your comments about naval gun manufacture are not correct! Watervliet manufactured ARMY big guns, not naval rifles. The production of naval rifles was almost completely assigned to

Gary, Folks, I have a much higher resolution scan of the left side of that photo than the web site does apparently. The lead tank tarp is stenciled “M4 FRONT”. I do not think that the tank

......and I apologize to Bill Welch if he thought I was making light of his error. That was never my intention. I too have made factual errors, even on this forum. I know who Bill is and appreciate

Thanks for your informative replies. I'm looking forward to the ART book. We've already seen a nice FGE write up by way of hand out. I would be happy to buy a hard copy of that hand out with

This is an interesting placement of end reporting marks: https://www.loc.gov/item/owi2001022759/PP/ The kit for the 1945 built low side Southern gondola by Smokey Mountainshows the more

A variety of flat cars with US Army tanks covered in wraps and each flatcar appears to have a white sign in front of the tank: https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8d15026/ gary “I can’t identify

I have a couple of related things that folks may find interesting, although neither is about cement... First, from the New Haven Speical Car Order 2-102, February 20, 1950 These are the assignments of

There are a number of 2 bay covered hopper models available. Bowser, andIntermountain sell the 1958 cu ft model. Sometimes you can find Kato’s versionat swap meets. Atlas and Kadee make the PS2 car.

Indeed! The PDS that Martin included with the kit shows the the Fast Mail crossing Diablo Canyon bridge and there is at least two of the NYC cars in that train, as well as several PRR (B60 's and