Some time ago I purchased some of the Tichy PFE decals. Unfortunately the lettering was way to thick to look good. But the SP and UP shields could be used for the period when PFE used metal shields

Schist, that's gneiss. Your comment in the blog post about the ads is a bit off-center - the ads don't always show up. — ^<@<.@* hat less at less point at star }"_# | back brace double

Here's a youtube video link that was just posted on the EJ&E group. This was filmed at Griffith IN in the mid '60s. There's about 30" of a weed spray train working on the EJ&E, beginning at about

Since we are discussing meat traffic, I dug into the 1959 CB&Q wheel reports that showed interchange cars going to IHB via Congress Park, Illinois, for forwarding. I have a couple of

Saw that last night, well worth the time to watch. You sure have packed a lot of operation in a not so big space. Tom Casey

Hi List Members, A nice image of NH 94593, a 36ft double sheathed boxcar. The image is dated in 1914

Bruce I don’t dispute the PRR was a large railroad and thus moved a large number of freight car. Because of its size it did carry a high percentage of traffic of all kinds, close to 20% of the miles

Don & Others, I've had some personal nasty emails about my comments concerning the Tichy decals. I don't understand as I have not said anything negative about Tichy or their decals or other products.

Them Monad does go back to the 1890s as an NP symbol. What changed through time was the extra tags like Yellowstone Park Line, which was in being used in the 1930s. There is an NP PR brochure at the

Thanks to all for the suggestions on how to proceed as well as the photos. I think I have a much better handle on where to go and what to do. Thanks again.

Titchy decals are extremely thick. There is no way I have found to blend them into a car. It is like using vinyl letters on a car. They would be fine on a 1.5” scale, but not HO. J. Stephen

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:32 PM Jim Dick wrote: >Reading the correspondence, about a reefer spotted for unloading, the "detention" sounds like a demurrage topic. Basically. In the trucking

Jim Dick wrote: Reading the correspondence, about a reefer spotted for unloading, the "detention" sounds like a demurrage topic. The retired PFE Car Service Manager I interviewed stated

Here is another file I found concerning billing, and copies of waybills. Presented not to make fun of accountants. However I have to wonder how much time and labor was expended here. And of the

Paul, I presented several years ago at Chicago and CCB RPMs about the usage of reefers and in winter they were busiest. January, February saw about 100 percent usage in AAR notes I found and used as a

Partial unloading has been covered before if not here on the Bull Shipper's list. It was a common thing in many less populated areas and when most people were more honest. The business at the end of

Greg Martin wrote: Well, not really. Reefers were paid on mileage, loaded or empty, NOT on per diem. That's why Western reefer owners like SFRD and PFE had agents in every eastern city, to

Empty milesge was huge especially if you weren't in the loaded revenue stream. I don't believe the issue of returning an empty car back to the home road happened as often as one might think. I think

For anyone who might be interested, there's a new commercial video that has just been posted of my layout (link below) and maybe also to my blog post about it. The blog post is

The monad goes back to some time after 1893. It was applied to some rolling stock in the 1920s. -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*