Thanks Ked and Ed for your responses. That is exactly the information I was looking for. Andy Cich From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Andy & Ken, Adding a few to Ken’s reply: 45098,

The paint was very probably red lead if it was bright orange, the best primer every made in my opinion. We used it extensively when I was a merchant mariner in the sixties.

Reference to Mr Ross comments. You have to understand there was not a lot of consistency on the rock island and many schemes may vary from car shop to car shop We did try and get all the data off the

Andy & Ken, Adding a few to Ken’s reply: 45098, 1-50, Miner h/b, Morton r/b (Soo Line photo, p. 18 of Soo Line Freight Equipment & Cabooses) 45450, 11-51, Champion-Peacock h/b, Morton r/b (Paul Dunn

Hello- For Sale: I have a new HO Challenger Imports UP class G 50-7 factory painted brass drop bottom steel gondola. This is a version which has never been even closely made in plastic in that this

Hi Andy - The three Soo Line diagrams for the cars in these series all describe the hand brakes as “various.” In going through some slides from these series, I found Miner (45020, 136784),

Jim Betz wrote: Since car owners had reports from junctions or unloading points, THEY could know where a car was. The phone calls from PFE or SFRD were to remind whomever that the car owner DID

Hello friends, Actually it isn't a -lot- more likely that a car will get forgotten (left sitting some where rather than moved as quickly as possible) just because it is a "foreign" car. Home road

---In STMFC@..., <wohrnell@...> wrote : Dennis, Only if they had charcoal heaters, it was mandatory to have two present when working with charcoal heater. The liquid fueled heaters did not have this

I would agree with Paul. Even if the cars are paid per diem it means littleto a crew that feels they have enough on their plate and three or four cars isnot an emergency. Crews also use the term

Rich, You're right and as I remember the steel moving from American Bridge hastheir name on each piece as well. I remember them moving down river from Conway,PA. Greg Martin Eventually all

Dennis, Only if they had charcoal heaters, it was mandatory to have two present when working with charcoal heater. The liquid fueled heaters did not have this warning. Walter Ohrnell

Scott, I had an empty placed for the loading of potatoes. When I opened the hatches to install heaters, I found the bunkers full of ice. By this time the car had been loaded and I wasn't about to ask

Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone) Begin forwarded message:

White Oak is known to not absorb much of anything. If the cars were lined with it, then presumably the moisture would be surface rather than soaked in. I don't think mold would be a problem in this

Chuck and Friends, I presume one of these products is the Oakite you mentioned, or a lineal descendant of same: http://www.chemetallna.com/products/by_app/generalMaint.aspx Yours

Pending moderators' approval, I've posted to an album in the Photos section titled "MILW 23162", three photos of an HO model of that car. It's a 40' rib-side boxcar, an Intermountain kit detailed

Folks, Oakite was a brandname of a line of cleaners used by many railroads. Tank cleaning, hot soaks, degreasing, washing solutions, etc. If some product literature from Oakite could be found, a

Good point Dennis, I am sure you are correct. Bill Welch

---In STMFC@..., <fgexbill@...> wrote : Regarding whether bunkers ever dried out I am wondering how many days with a heater in them would it take for a bunker to "dry out?" ================= Probably