Also, it is not necessary to send me any corrections/additions as an Excel file....a simple email with be fine....thanks! Jim Brewer

All, This file was also uploaded to the Resin and Plastic Freight car site; when I attempted to upload it to Reatstmfc there was no space; so I forwarded to Jeff and he kindly has uploaded it. I have

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that the following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the main@RealSTMFC.groups.io group. /Station and Reweigh Symbols/Station &

For an extremely valuable commodity with insurance rates sometimes charged by the hour, speedy delivery was important. CPR with its integrated railway and steamship service had a competitive edge.

These LV box cars were often used in the bagged flour trade out of Buffalo. Eight-hundred 100 lb. bags of flour made a load. Bagged flour like that was used in neighborhood bake shops like the one I

Mont, Yes, the C&O coal tower here in Charlottesville was retained for sanding until the yard was downsized around 1989. The tower is still standing, though derelict. Somebody bought it to turn into a

Terrific photo, Bud, thanks very much. I wish it carried a blt date. I’m sure that’s a builder’s photo, with every little detail picked out in white, all the lettering on the wheels and

Follow up to previous, with NKP Yuton Coal Dock in background http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll63/id/4180 -- Matt Smith Bloomington, IL

Check this out! NKP 99819 loading corn in cement hopper Yuton, IL 1946 http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll63/id/4404 -- Matt Smith Bloomington, IL

No railroad was more dedicated then the C&O in using old tenders for coal & water in the camp trains. A roster published by the C&O Historical Society shows numbers in the "T" series going as high as

I was in some Santa Fe cabooses in 1969/70 sitting in storage in Wichita, awaiting rebuilding or scrapping, most likely scrapping since the West Wichita shops had just closed. They all had cast iron

That's what they make shovels for. The men on work trains were mostly rated as laborers anyway... want heat tonight... shovel enough coal into the bunker to last us the week. Long after the steam era,

The coal bunkers on C&O MOW tenders were left as-built. Bill McClure Bill McClure www.billmcclure.smugmug.com www.mcclureimages.com

Garth and all, Many (most?) coaling towers also had provisions for storing and dispensing sand. That function kept some coaling towers in use well beyond their time. The two that I am most

Schuyler, Wish I could enlarge the image.I n the meantime I have this builder's photo (I believe) of an early wrongway door LV car.I don't know the photo source as the pic was a gift to me from a

Mel, I think the bunkers continued to be used for some years to supply coal for heating and possibly cooking needs to the MW trains, as stated in my original post. Maybe not. Some C&O maven might be

Mel: On the Southern Pacific trains were blocked by destination, not by the load. Paul C. Koehler

Additional FGE file photos of WFEX 67564. Les

Unfortunately, no, nor did a good bit of web surfing looking for one succeed. Sorry. Schuyler

In looking at the grills on WFEX 67564 is probably a Thermo-King equipped car. Truckers were fine with their gas powered T-K's but the RR's did not like them because gas is more flammable. Many