Group, Does anyone know the closest Tru Color Paint that matches up as close to Scalecoat Box Car Red #1? Thanks in advance, Tim Alund

Hi Doug, Thanks very much. Attached my photo of SLSX 71548, which I am fairly certain is double deck with only two doors. Is it possible the 71000-series contained both 2- and 4-door versions? Is

Thank you, Jim. This is very helpful. Stay healthy, Peter Ness

Looks to be a standard AAR 53’ 6” flatcar, which had a extreme deck width of 10’ 6”. Note how the deck boards overhang the stake pockets, with cut outs for the pockets. The CGW had two lots

Flatcar appears to have a little added width to deck to accommodate two side by side jeeps 5'3" = 10'6".

Heinz has a plant in Winchester, VA served by the Baltimore and Ohio. Vinegar and pickle cars were seen in town. Also National Fruit, served by the Pennsylvania Railroad, has a small collection of

It happened. Not a lot. But it happened. Photo from Roseville CA in 1940. On 7/16/2020 4:47 PM, Dave Parker via groups.io wrote: -- Tim

Looks spot on to me ! On 7/16/2020 3:02 PM, O Fenton Wells wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

And, as for seeing Heinz cars: In 1926, the fleet was 115 cars, 41 of them reefers By 1935, the reefers were gone and there were 35 pickle tank cars and 10 vinegar tank cars Slightly different mix in

David, Heinz was much more than pickles. They have a plant in Muscatine IA, here is a story from the local paper. For many years, Iowa tomato growers had a buyer for their crop in Muscatine.

hunt's had a huge cannery in hayward, most of it long gone, except the portion that belongs to costco's business center mel perry

Bob if you look close you can see a cable or hook wrapped around the front bumper on first two jeeps. I suspect the cable was the tie-down, along with the block of wood under the bumper. Doug

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:41 AM, David Soderblom wrote: I note with interest the three factories in northern California, Salinas, ~Oakland, and Tracy/Los Banos. Yet Calif. is not a producer of the

while on the suject of heinz, there used to be a site dedicated to the heinz freightcars (long since disappreared), question i have is, after the 34' boxcars, were there 36' cars, the reason for

I’m not being picky, Fenton! Schuyler

BTW, USS Gary was a big producer. Elden Gatwood From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>On Behalf Of Gatwood, Elden J SAD Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 2:52 PM To:

Schuyler, Bill, how about this. It's not cleaned up and has a slight bow but would glue in nice and flat On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 1:30 PM Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io

Ray; Large sheets were produced for ship and submarine use, as 2 examples. Elden Gatwood From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>On Behalf Of Ray Hutchison Sent: Thursday,

I note with interest the three factories in northern California, Salinas, ~Oakland, and Tracy/Los Banos. Yet Calif. is not a producer of the materials (take a look at all those cukes from Michigan!),

Actually, the railroads paid PFE by the mile for use of the cars (and also paid them for icing). The shipper paid according the tariff to the delivering railroad, which then distributed shares to the