This traffic all moved prepaid but establishing a joint line commodity rate to cover this would have been no problem and the origin carried would have done all the work. This apparently came through

Many railroad employees report paying no attention to such stenciled directives. Tony Thompson

Clark, well that’s some news. Mine came in a C&BT box with no paper work. Well that’s good because there should be plenty of parts around. Cutting the ends off was easy and the resin ends fit

They were routed via SCL- Atlanta -.L&N-Chicago - BN - Seattle - Alaska Hydro-train - Anchorage-ARR. Even the ACL's "whopper Hopper" (by then SCL 500000) made one trip. We eventually were

Bill is correct! The DVD on the B&O Lake Line includes a view of a Great Northern iron ore car moving on the line in an ore train. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

As mich as we all try to be prototypically accurate sometimes we just see a car we have to have. I have an early Erie covered hopper (as done by Gene Diemling in an old MR artical) that I just

Sorry for the error. I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Hawaii. Not a train in sight. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Another great looking model . George Toman

I went and looked at the Freight Conductor's Train book data that I have. For the Lone Star Cement plant in Sunflower (Bonner Springs), KS the overwhelming majority of the LO's were UP. However,

I thought that I had sent this out earlier but I don't see it. The Naperville GTW "Gift" was a Centrilla kit issued by Des Plains Hobbies. I thought the car body was from Branchline but will defer

There are photos of CB&Q covered hoppers in Cajon Pass in the late steam era (and also specifically at the Oro Grande cement plant switch lead) that I've always wondered about. If cement hoppers don't

There were only 200 of the B&O N-34 class covered hoppers built in 1940, with Duryea cushion underframes. Numbers 630300-630399 were built at the company shops in Keyser WV, with numbers

The Howe Truss cars were owned by RR's large and small with enough variety of roofs and end to make them endlessly interesting to me. Nice modeling Lester. Bill Welch

Central and Indian Refinery Operations - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad - 1910 Era - Lawrenceville, Illinois. https://www.flickr.com/photos/82856031@N04/34969508003/in/album-72157689496617540/ The

I think there's confusion here. The Chicagoland mini-kit is a Red Caboose model...Not C&BT. I substituted an Intermountain kit so I didn't have to cut off the ends, just glue on the resin ends

If you visited my blog and read the writeup of MILW SS Box Car 713406, I said you could find writeup and photos of Sunshine Models resin kit MILW SS Box Car 711470. It was not to be found; however,

So, Bill, let me get this straight. If specialty cements and economic circumstances in the massively changed economic and regulatory environment of the 1970's involved long distance shipments, then it

Seattle to Whittier, AK. Maybe some went via Prince Rupert, but I am not sure. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

So I have to ask whether those Alyeska bound cars were carfloated up via Seattle.... Anyone have an opinion on this? Thanks, Brad Andonian

I blame it on the programmers who put the "new" comments at the top rather, than as I recall from years ago, the bottom of a reply. I think most responders don't THINK about what is below the reply