Now that I’ve changed eras and locations I have a few extra freight carsthat some on this list might be interested in? With Naperville next weekend Ithought I could bring them with me and same

The NP hauled company coal in gondolas across the system. They would fill out the tonnage on a regular freight train with company coal. A very large portion of the NP steam fleet ran on

I have no photos but I do have a yard check logbook for Blackford KY for part of 1947. The yard was used by the ICRR for locals serving the mines in the Provadance KY area. There were forigen gons in

Eric, Bob's original post liked two photos, of two different flatcars. C&NW 50801 in the second photo is a 40', 40 ton class B-4 car, series 49001-50999 odd, built by Pullman 1904-05. These were wood

---In STMFC@..., <garywildu@...> wrote : I have a photo of the NP hauling coal in ore cars around the Duluth - Superior area. . The photo show the ore carfor the heating plant at 5 Ave

I have a photo of the NP hauling coal in ore cars around the Duluth - Superior area. . The photo show the ore carfor the heating plant at 5 Ave yard. Gary

The CB&Q shipped coal from Southern Illinois mines in gondolas, mostly in captive service. Burlington Bulletin No. 35 titled “The Q in the Coal Fields” chronicles this traffic. During the late

Thanks to Claus Schlund, Richard Brennan, and others who helped with this. Assistance much appreciated. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA

Here in the Upper Midwest, seems coal loaded in the Twin Ports(Duluth/Superior) was into box cars while coal from SE Iowa and NW Illinois wasin gondolas/hoppers. Most town coal dealers had sheds to

Totally agree. The 1934 conductor log used "C" as car type for gondolas carrying coal, but used "G" when carrying other loads. I need to check when a gon was empty (we used car number to identify the

I got curious about a gondola here in town (on a siding), and when I looked inside, it was a load of 4" steel balls. I found out it was destined for a local mine that had a ball crusher being

In the Northern Pacific files, in the President's Subject Files, the Chief Engineering Files and the Mechanical Department files are found a report, Report of Committee on Open Top Dump Cars, this

---In STMFC, I wrote : What aneat photo! The car seems to have the NEW weight stencil, although NEW ismissing due to the lack of space, is suspect. The weigh location is DET and thedate looks like

Does anyone have or know of a source for photos of the Erie flat cars, Class FD, 7208-7212? Any help appreciated. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Heavy Photoshop intervention to remove the perspective and boost the contrast indicates: CCC&StL 50x99 ...which seems to agree with Eric's build data... Copy of the un-skewed photo of the flat car

---In STMFC@..., <jimbetz@...> wrote : Hi, I will theorize that the destination had a lot to do with whether the car used was a coal hopper or a gondola. Especially if the receiver wasn't set up to

I reviewed the image at full magnification and feelthis is a CCC&StL flat car. Note there is a NYC Lines oval beside a farstake pocket. Here are a few NYC Lines flat cars with similarities tothe

Ken, Can you share a link for the image? I donot see any function on the original image with the lime pulverizers on the CCC&StLflat car that will lead to the next, or another, image. Eric

The Santa Fe had thousands of Caswell design composite drop door gondolas. You see them in a lot of pictures of coal mines in Colorado and New Mexico and in long strings in trains going up and down

The second picture shows the flatcar being lettered "C&NW" - Chicago & Northwestern. Also in the second picture, note in the background the various Norfolk & Western hopper cars. Ken Montero