Bob, (Here I go again!) I suspect this photo is somewhat mislabeled. The loads are may be shake wood on its way to a shingle mill. Nice photo though. Good find. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Bob, Unless those crates contain spare parts, or are part of a "kit", they are far too small for a whole car. In the early days before Evans racks, autos were sometimes shipped in crates (via freight

Friends, Edward has pretty much hit the silk problem on the head. Silk was a very, very valuable cargo, and was a tempting target for organized crime. Some division points along the silk routes had

Photo: Loading Packard Automobile Crates A 1905 photo from the Wayne State University Libraries: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:CFAIEB01e765 Click on "Open Image in Viewer". This

Dry Ice Refrigerator Car Test Here is some "dry" reading if you have the time and inclination: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924003645607&view=1up&seq=19 This is a 1952 technical

Hi List Members, Awesome photo! I especially like the gondola closest to the camera – it has a hole punched into the side, and the side plates are rusted thru near the bottom. While I cannot

An old Chinese proverb says, "The modeling of a million piece pulpwood load begins with a first stick." I read this in a fortune cookie message. The other side of the message had a one-step tip for

the one without is a different roof altogether mel perry

Photo: Reefers At Michigan Central Yard - Detroit A 1928 photo from the Wayne State University Libraries: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc77171_1 These photos load slowly but can be

Great shot, incredibly clear. But the mere thought of wanting to model that load gives me a very bad headache! Schuyler

i believe, in the real world, that's a no-no mel perry

All: Not true, MTS Brass car with the Aluminum tanks, I can run anywhere in a train and any length train. Three cars to over thirty, as you can see it’s first out in front of the caboose in

Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977 An undated photo from the Oregon Historical Society. Library: https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/train-with-cord-wood This photo can be enlarged quite a bit and shows

I searched my email for “virtual,” which got me several dozen hits, but searching for “Speedwitch” got me my receipt too. Schuyler

Presumably those of us who were able to register will be getting some form of e-mail notification from Speedwitch in the next day or so with the login information. I have an alternate weekly Zoom

Tim, Yes, it's hard to steal from a fast moving train. And it's hard to steal from a train moving at "regular" speed. I'd say the difficulty is about the same. Now, a STOPPED train is different.

It may be an error to assume the railroad needed any significant insurance for the raw silk load. They may have required the SHIPPER to buy any "excess" insurance. That has happened to many of us when

From the shape of the tanks, the "Poison Gas" placards, and my many young hours spent on the catwalk above Taylor, my guess would be chlorine. Cheers, Bruce A. Metcalf

It was incredibly valuable cargo. Why are so many non-perishable products (MILLIONS of TONS) now shipped by air? Because it's so valuable that the higher transportation cost is

I mentioned a couple of those reasons for speed in my earlier post. As I envision the hoopla accompanying the silk shipments, I also see another benefit from railroad speed: self-promotion. "Sure