The run by of the freight with C&IM gondolas looks like the Santa Fe in Illinois - where I'd expect to see those cars. On 6/12/2020 4:22 PM, vapeurchapelon wrote:

The CNJ regularly hauled sand out of the Vineland, NJ and Millville, NJ areas in 52' gondolas. The sand was just piled in the car - CNJ employees would joke that SJ-2 looked like a rolling sandstorm.

Reasonably inexpensive TUNGSTEN "grit" is available online - I bought some on Amazon. This is poured into center sills or under the floor and it's denser than lead, not

Will Rapido paint them for Northern Pacific as ex-DT&I X31b? Different roof... too bad :-( Tim O'Connor On 6/12/2020 3:42

Schuyler, There is a town about 20 miles from me that used to have two cement plants - Superior Cement and Washington Portland Cement and the town is called "Concrete". Actually it's a little more

The HM cars are hoppers. Nelson Moyer

Clark, I looked up my Q hopper roster to get the car classes, and I don’t find series 190000-191749 listed as such. I found 19000-19499 (HT-1) and 190500-190999 (HT-2). The next class I have is

I worked for Corning Incorporated (formerly Corning Glass Works) for a while. Corning has made a wide variety of products from telescope lenses to kitchen ware to optical fiber to catalytic converter

The IC car is a 55 ton open hopper. Built in 1949 by Pullman Standard. From the car diagram it looks like the Alternate Standard Offset Hopper that the IC had thousands of. Jeff White

Very interesting, Clark. Are you saying these were all gons? Thanks! Elden Gatwood

Bob Chaparro wrote: Clearly a post-Prohibition photo, so we know the earliest it can be dated! Tony Thompson tony@...

Photo: PFE/WP Reefer With Load Of Wines & Cordials An undated photo (Reweigh date 2-1932) from the Louisiana Digital

All; Reason I ask is, I am aware of several customers that wanted specific cars (classes) for their use, and got their way. And this is related to why they did not want sand in box cars or gons.

Photo: Boxcar Underframe An undated photo from the Tulane University Digital Library: https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:327 The reference is to the flood in Pueblo, CO, so

Photo: Various Boxcars An undated photo from the Tulane University Digital Library: https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:9872 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Click on

Photo: GATX/Union Carbide Tank Car 73614 A 1965 photo from the Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A10064 This photo can be enlarged quite a

Photo: IC Refrigerator Car 65370 An undated photo from the Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lhp%3A7624 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit.

Below are some examples of sand cars. Beings this is an M&StL list there were lots of their GS gons. I only copied one.

Frac sand? Is that from the future? Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

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