Jack, clearly, you nailed it. That first photo was Reading's PortRichmond yards as seen from high on the grain elevator. It's been on my hard drive for 4years so I'm guessing someone pointed it out

This elevator perhaps? http://digital.hagley.org/islandora/object/islandora:2012719 Jack Mullen

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That building the photo was taken from may have been a grain elevator. In May 1999 I flew up to Philly for a class in Trevose which is NE of Philly. Heading north on I-95 before getting to the Walt

There is a photo of a B&O N-34 covered hopper being unloaded at a refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas in the early 1940's. The car was delivering silica - alumina catalyst to a fluid catalytic cracking

Eric, Thanks for the update - good news. Question - what kind of retainer valves do you use on your freight cars? There are the ones that come in the resin kits, and the ones made by Precision Scale,

Resin Car Works has a new version of the HO scale AC&FType 27 8K gallon insulated tank car kit available. Check out the Resin CarWorks blog for more details.

Here’s an observation: I remembered advice from years ago that Champ decals needed to soak in water without their backing sheet for some time to soak off the adhesive before application. Further,

Jim, A lot of your observations are more period specific than specific to Philly, but yes, Philly was a very large and very active port. Much like New York, many of the docks are now gone, and those

Bob; Are those the "getting rid of grain door tracks", atop the embankment? Thanks for sharing! Great photo! Elden Gatwood

Nice looking car Lester and thanks for posting your blog. Paul Doggett England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

Friends, Of course, you all saw the ubiquitous Northern Pacific boxcar at left center? Always gotta have one of those. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

No speculation here ... a specific reference: At the Chicagoland RPM last fall I bought a nice color print whose main subject was a Duluth South Shore & Atlantic RS-1 taken in the late 1950's at St.

The Los Angeles Junction Ry received 20 Santa Fe 2 bay covered hoppers of silica sand per day for two glass bottle places. Guessing most had that stencil on them. And since Santa Fe had controlling

Hi,   Is there any one on this group who "knows Philly in the 30's/40's"?   I counted about 40 tracks - just in this photo - and each of them holding at least 35 cars ... and that's just the part

Central and Indian Refinery Operations - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad - 1910 Era - Lawrenceville, Illinois.

John... Thanks for your comments! I prefaced my summary with the phrase "direct digital printing of decals". Your insightful posts on several groups about ALPS printers is part of what has led me to

Richard, You are correct. The junction was Whittier not Anchorage. When we got short-hauled on this business via Cincinnati in the Haliburton cars they used CN Aqua Train via Prince Rupert, BC. Bill

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