Photos: Cotton Transportation Photos from the Jackson County Historical Society: Circa 1910 – Loading cotton at railroad depot,

Well, now, that's a darned sneaky solution to Doug's problem! Todd Sullivan

Doug, I rather doubt that fresh lobsters would make it live to the West Coast by rail, based on years of eating them on Cape Ann north of Boston where my grandparents had a summer house, and on

Doug Paasch wrote: Remember that for awhile in the '50's BAR loaned its reefers to PFE from June 1 to October 1. So there you are! California vegetable or oranges, fresh to Seattle! Tony

I think air hardening green modeling clay is your best bet. You can probably roll a hundred melons while watching a 1 hour TV show. On 7/8/2020 5:22 PM, Claus Schlund

They wouldn't ship spuds or cranberries from Maine to the west coast as Washington and Idaho are spud country, and Washington and Oregon grow cranberries (Ocean Spray). But B&M beans are THE best and

Meant to send this here, but absentmindedly sent it to the old Yahoo group. Anyway.... As mentioned during Hindsight 20/20, we will be conducting some weeknight clinics, as well as further iterations

True on the New Haven. There was the 2-10-2 (hauling Steam Era freight cars... did I stay outta jail Mike?) that threw a tire while on the Poughkeepsie Bridge (gantlet tracked so there was no pulling

Potatoes!!!

American Viscose's first plant was located in Marcus Hook, PA. There is more info here: https://abandonedonline.net/location/american-viscose-company/ as well as at oldchesterpa.com Drew

Bruce I am trying to contact you with plans, but using the address bruce.metcalf@... doesn't go through. Please contact me off list Smithal9@... Thanks

There was a large rayon factory (American Viscose Corp.) in Front Royal, Virginia, served by the Norfolk & Western Railway - which was controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad during our time period.

Hi List Members, Two views for those wanting to model accuate watermelon loads for their steam era freight cars... https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/67030

There are scale drawings and photos in "Mainline Modeler", May 1993, beginning on page 5, by Martin Loftin. Cheers, / Bruce /

Rayon was made from cellulose fiber, and I know there were mills in the Pacific NW in NW Washington State served by the Northern Pacific and in W Va served by the Western Maryland, IIRC. I'd be

Thanks for getting the SRHA/Southern 50’ box car book! There are less than a dozen left out of 250 or so that were printed for us by the Norfolk Southern print shop at cost. They are available in

Bob, Thank you for posting this photo. For those interested, following is some history. MP 45396 originated as one of 250 (MP 79200-79499) 40-ton XA single-sheathed auto cars built ca. 5-29 by Mount

Or a load of canned cranberry sauce, or sardines (from Maine) or B&M Baked Beans (num, num, good!)! Todd Sullivan

Hi List Members, ACL 27103 40ft steel boxcar https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/52983 Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, SAL 15709 40ft boxcar, Jacksonville FL https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/53116 Enjoy! Claus Schlund