I stand corrected. A faulty memory to be sure. A lady at Habley responded to my question and corrected the picture caption, but said, there was/is a hydrogen cyanide plant at that Dupont plant in

About half a mile down the tracks from these photos, heading west, were several Wholesale Grocers. I think a Fruit company is still there today. I don't know if that ties in with the Old Duck

During the Depression my mother said she'd go down to another part of this yard to pick up any spilled coal. Also, I thought it might be a black woman taking a short cut. George Courtney

See my post of early this afternoon. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Hello, And what about Patrick Cudahy? I have two photographs of NMCX reefers 2160 and 2216 which have a PATRICK CUDAHY logo at the opposite end to the reporting marks. TYIA. Regards, Glen

if you go to the B&MRHS site under on line Archives, they’ve recently added copies of car acquisition books for that time period; they show these series of flat cars as acquired by the B&M in 1901

The Cudahy Wisconsin library has a lot of material on the company there, which is still in operation albeit under different name; the former NRC repair facility still stands there also Roger Hinman

I agree. This is a Big Four boxcar. The lettering follows what the NYC was applying to their cars in this timeframe. Part of the NYCL oval can be seen to the right of the banner. It’s

Bob Chaparro wrote: The door is stenciled "9-5", "10-6" and "8-E". The white rectangle above the 3” white stripe indicates that the car’s Evans Auto~Loaders are stored and inoperable. They

That’s a lot of chalk marks on the car side! I’m wondering if the end reporting marks are “…&SD” (or “SL”) ?? -- Ken Akerboom

More info on these flats can be found here: https://www.bmrrhs.org/flat_32000_series/ For the 32060-32065 specifically, see the table “Individual / small group listings

I’m starting a new thread for discussion of Cudahy. The map I posted this morning, came from a Cudahy Year book, published I think in 1932. It shows, at that time, the slaughter houses, branch

The plant on the ICRR at Memphis did produce hydrogen cyanide. The plant was located at Woodstock where the passenger and freight mains split just North of Memphis. In later years that product was

Closer to the photo date. series 9000 - 9999 60,000 cpy 918 car Jan 1915 ORER Howard Garner

My apologies. My mail reader did not show the first image. When I when to group.io directly all three tanks showed. Howard Garner

Bob Chaparro asked: "Photo: Boxcar Door Stenciling (Circa 1943) A photo from the Detroit Public

Well, I see crow is on the menu today . . . I apologize for confusing ODC and Bon Ami. Bon Ami contains feldspar and doesn’t scratch. I cannot vouch for the performance of ODC. The plant I

mel perry wrote: You obviously haven't ever looked at the book on Billboard Reefers by Richard Hendrickson and Ed Kaminski. Tony Thompson tony@...

 Hi Bob, Looking at this image, I think the reporting marks might actually be CCC&StL 9260, not ATSF. If this is the case, it is from series 9001-9984, 36ft IL, 40-ton, 167 cars listed in the

Photo: Boxcar Door Stenciling (Circa 1943) A photo from the Detroit Public Library: https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A257918 Click and hold to enlarge