This is not really my bailiwick, but don't you have to make a distinction between what the packer could carry in their meat reefers, versus what the billboard adverting was touting? In Chapter 3 of

Victor, We pulled a lot of cars of sand out of a large pit at Forreston, IL and it was shipped in both hoppers and gons. The sand was often wet which kept it from blowing. In the early 1960's, when

Bob Chaparro wrote: That practice was almost entirely an Armour activity, though some of the other packers handled non-meat cargo, as this photo shows. Actually, it was the Federal Trade

Bob Chaparro wrote: Car number is indeed illegible but appears to be four digits, consistent with the pre-1917 car lettering. The huge fleet of Dunbar Molasses and Soap Company tank cars in

I think some of it ended up in Temple at the Santa Fe Archives. However, Frank was too generous in loaning stuff out, with many items never coming back. Contact Craig Order at <cordner@...> .

Back in the 1990’s, I purchased some copies of ACF builder’s photos from Frank Ellington and have some fairly extensive listings of rolls (159) and frames of 35 mm negatives that he took of ACF

Jake I’m with you. Upon seeing the close up my first thought was an ink stamper. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

With this closer look, I'm not aware of any hand stapers / tacker that are that shape. Thinking the shape of it looks more like a self inking inspection stamper?

Photo: Vegetarian Meat Reefer: Cudahy 5177 Well, sort of. This is a photo of a Cudahy produce reefer, circa 1912 or earlier. At the time Cudahy, like most of the large meat packers, used their

Photo: PFE Reefer With Ventilator Hood Propped Open A undated photo from the Louisiana Digital Library https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A6627 This photo can be

A new freight car review is available. It covers the Schoen and Pressed Steel early hopper car production. Here's a link to the blog post announcement.

Andy - Were these covered hoppers or open hoppers? What about gondolas? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Coming in on this late. I just finally panned all the way to the far end of the string of cars, and adjacent to the track is a fire hose house, and interestingly, the hydrant identification number is

Or you could use clear acrylic (e.g. Future) as an initial 'adhesive' that will harden (and self level) over 24 hrs and then touch the edges with MEK for capillary action that

On the Santa Fe, for a time, each road master had a Burro Crane that would remain on their territory all year. Very handy for unloading track materials or picking up scrap or laying turnouts. My

Brother also makes one. The tape is available in 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 mm widths. Another adaptive use for the product I use to label the drawers containing the layout supplies like turnouts, bridge

So, it would seem that shot plus powder might yield the greatest weight load for a given volume. Steve Hile

Courtesy of A. Clemens: Download link to a copy of Insulation of Railway Equipment pdf https://tinyurl.com/y77y2yc2

We've had this debate before, but it doesn't seem like we have progressed very far. If you choose just the right sized spheres and can get them to pack in the most optimal way (= face-centered cubic

Ted Culotta wrote: Yes, obviously a space that can't take an integral number of large spheres will not fit this calculation. But if you choose any size sphere, for a space where they fit "end to