If this photo is New Orleans, then the ship is facing upriver since the docks were mostly along the city side. The angle of the sun reinforces that thought. That makes it more likely that this is an

Indeed, P&G made a lot of soap. As you know, soaps can be made with many different kinds of oil - coconut, palm, etc. One of their products was a soap made with a mixture of PALM oil and OLIVE oil --

Charles, In most cases, I believe that wooden cars were rolled to the side, off the track, before burning. This allowed the trucks, wheels, brakes etc.,, to be salvaged first and without damage from

Fellas, I almost hate to bringt his up, but - In case someone is doing decal artwork or car cards, it should be noted that the name of the company is PROCTER and Gamble. Company was founded in 1837 by

I lived not to far from these photos, and they did burn cars. I remember the clouds of smoke coming from near the back end of there property. I still have memories of the Green Bay Western gray wood

In the late 1940's, grandfather would sometimes drive us down after dark to watch the L&N RR burning wooden cars. I remember there being five or six in a row but that there was at least one more

Tim, Nice find! There's a lot of photos of Santa Fe Caswell gons being cut up. It's interesting that they have had the wood striped out and are being cut up upside down. Striping the wood out first

Some great photos there Tim. Paul Doggett England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A collection of photos here - lots of interesting freight car bits and pieces https://www.facebook.com/pg/Radio.WW2/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1995435020702484 Tim O'Connor -- *Tim

Nelson, The way the Sunshine kits were packaged, they would contain only the one roof per kit, so there would be no second roof to trade. Tom Casey -----Original Message-----

I agree with Spen Kellogg (who should know) that the cargoes here were vegetable oil from the Caribbean, likely palm oil. Remember that Proctor & Gamble made a lot of soap. Tony Thompson

Charlie is right, and this depends on the railroad and its area served. The Santa Fe switched to 40’ stock cars around 1900. Other railroads ran 36’ cars into the 1950s. It also appears that

Jennings Oil/ Heywood Oil/ Heywood Jennings Oil owned oil leases in and around Jennings and Acadia parish and had a refining agreement with Gulf. I doubt they had any tank cars of their own and

Thanks, Tom. I’ll look into the SFRD Rr5-9 cars and see what I find. I don’t have any SFRD kits to do a direct comparison (except the new RCW kits). Maybe somebody out that built the Rr 5-9 with a

Pierre doesn’t give the roof length but it’s probably for a 40 ft. box car. The 6000 series roof is 41 ft. 6 ¼ in. to make the two end panels long enough to accommodate the hatches (the car is 41

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The cars were carrying some kind of vegetable oil, most likely palm oil, although coconut oil is also possible. Some of those tank cars (the ones with the high running boards) were probably built in

S.W.A.G. - Molasses is the cargo.The cars are a range of types, mostly AC&F, with a few high walkway cars (AC&F type 7 ?) Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

The attached JPEG didn't have much resolution, so here is the link to the LDL: http://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A8480 I little more detail is evident here, but it's still

Hi Bob, I can not add much about the tank cars… others are more tank car literate than I am… but can offer some info about the ship… The photo must have been taken sometime in the 1930s and it