Would anyone have a guess what this car was? The other cars are Pere Marquette USRA ds box derivatives, but this one is Santa

Andy Carlson wrote: Palmolive originally was a product of the B.J. Johnson Company, and their primary product, a very popular soap, was given the Palmolive name for its ingredients, back in

One more correction for the week---- Though Palmolive may have been named for Palm oil and Olive oil combos, it was never a Procter and Gamble product. Back in nthe 1920s, the Palmolive corporation

Bruce Smith wrote: Metallurgically, the fire would only have annealed the cast steel and iron parts, not even a bad thing in most cases. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

That's a great image Jeff I wish I could find a higher resolution view... there are lots of images online but I can't find a better one of that facility. Here's another P&G building in St

At the H-M plant, you could see the crane derricks from the street. They were located where they burned the cars. No EPA then. I know they would stack cars, and assumed they knocked cars over. The

Yes, I agree that I would roll cars over onto their side if I had an interest in salvaging useful material, trucks and such. Perhaps that was not the case in what I saw as I remember seeing a door

Right, Andy. I should have remembered George's role in the company. I asked Jack's son, Jeff, about the old kits. He has some on display at the current company location. Jeff says he has nothing on

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