Garth, Oct 44: TKX 300, 600, 2 cars. remittances to Thomas Keery Co., Inc. owner (shipper) Hancock, NY John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

I sent this to Dan a few moments ago. Dan, thanks for your comments. I was working at the Naval Depot in Hawthorne (NADHAW) at the time, When they brought back some of the unexploded bombs we

Sam and Friends, My parents lived in Roseville, just a block from the eastbound yard throat. They were thankfully beyond the danger zone, which was closer to the west end where the explosions

Speaking of these trucks... Anyone know what is this "widget" attached to the truck? Damping device? Over-travel (or over-load) limiter? Image extracted from

CMTX 465 and TKX 700 are those high-walkway cars most likely built by Pennsylvania Tank Car in the early-mid Teens, using the underframe that Standard Tank Car adopted when it started up. QTX 6108 is

I picked up the term "foobie" from Tony's blog as meaning a stand in that will just have to do until I find the right parts at a reasonable cost to reasonably accurately model the prototype or I can

Although past the dates of this group, in April 1973 a bomb laden train blew up in Roseville, CA it was cause by a hot wheel or journal box. The train just arrive at the SP yard after descending the

Dave Nelson wrote: What era are you thinking of, Dave? In the era of this list, all the reefers WP owned were leased to PFE and entirely operated by PFE, meaning that the distribution of reefers to

Friends, Mel pointed out that I had inadvertently posted the photo of TKX 700 as a tif instead of a jpeg. Well, I had the jpeg up on my screen, but clicked on the wrong link. In case any of you

Hello Rupert, Thanks for the photo attachment. The burnt out car to the right in the photo looks to me to be a PFE R-30/40-18,19 or 21. A chance to see the underlying steel side framing that made

I expect in the winter reefers were used to keep the contents from freezing. I do know the Western Pacific’s few reefers were used primarily for canned food. Dave Nelson

I’ve read all of the opinions in the Foobie thread and my honest conclusion about it is this: I miss Richard. Always interesting, always well informed. Dave Nelson

That’s fabulous! Thanks, Rupert! Elden Gatwood

RE: The modified gondola coupled to the wrecker…Was that car part of a CB&Q revenue series of the same design? Steve Johnson

I also suspect one wouldn’t see people casually standing around burning ammunition cars.

For the Stauffer tank car a place to start might be one of the old metal tank cars from Globe or Athearn.

Elden There was a second photo of this event, as attached. I think that the only date given was the 50’s and no location. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

Dick, That's a really nice 'conversion' from the old Athearn metal kit. When I first got into the hobby as a 14 year old, the first kits I built - or tried to build - were some HO Athearn metal

Any pics of that? Newspaper pics? This is the one I want…. Elden Gatwood

Man, that is wild! Thanks for sharing, Tim! Elden Gatwood