Complete agreement! Schuyler

this may help to identify the brake wheel :-) My Dad's photo (and a VERY old scan)

Bob, Group; While a long way from home (not really), for a URR gondola, and with a load unusual for that road (not really), I would add that this is typical gon behavior, from the numerous photos

I agree with Dave Parker that groups.io is superior for most functions. What I have found Facebook useful for is developing sources outside rail-oriented people for historical photos and information.

My experience with the Rocky Ford factory confirms what Richard & Doug have said. Beets in - granulated sugar out - no juice either came or went. In later years, they built a concrete silo & shipped

IMHO facebook is still as evil as ever! Their sole purpose is harvesting your personal information to sell at a profit to whoever wants it with no known social responsibility. If you're OK with that,

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:39 PM, Matthew Metoyer wrote: It's nice to know oil was recycled in the 30's, but useless for the original question about the photo from the early 1900's. The oil cars

I agree Dave. Facebook has too loose of a structure. Jerry Michels

The sugar beet plants in the Midwest, ie Iowa and Minnesota, were all in one processors. Sugar beets came in, in any available car, and bags of refined sugar was shipped out in boxcars. Liquid sugar

Gene, Great shot. The car is 30 years old and still ready to serve. I found that stencil on the left door "This Door Is Stationary" ... interesting, velly interesting (credit to Laugh In).

At least at the sugar plants I am aware of in Colorado, beets were not crushed into pulp. They were put through a slicer that cut them into “cossettes” that resembled French fries but with a

Thomas Birkett wrote: Sugar beets were partially steam cooked and shredded, and the pulp was the source of sugar. (Done all at one plant.) I would think that "beet juice" would be a vegetable

. It's hard enough already to carve out adequate time at the modeling bench. AMEN!! It’s hard enough to find the time to deal with the posts on a daily basis. I increasingly delete some

I hesitate to mention the cars I leased out for beet juice that were last contained sodium hydroxide, not clean. We don't buy beet derived sugar at our house. Another question: in the steam era were

It's nice to know oil was recycled in the 30's, but useless for the original question about the photo from the early 1900's. The oil cars belong to a Milwaukee Road predecessor, correct? Maybe someone

I found this shot in my files. It is a scan of a print that I purchased from Ted Culotta. Gene Deimling

My father always kept a 5 gallon can of reclaimed motor oil to run through our chainsaws. Part of what kept out house warm through the winter months in Virginia. Brent Dr. J. Brent Greer

I'm OK with Facebook but, let's face it, groups.io is a vastly superior vehicle for sharing information, contacting individuals, archiving photos and files, etc., etc. Search functions work great. I

Many must know this, but I’ll mention it here. The Navy cleans, tests, and recycles all lubricating oil. The old diesel subs(ie Bonefish, Blueback, Barbel-the ‘B’ sisters) even recycled the oil