Garth if you have not seen the MOLOCO 50 foot Morton running boards, you should take a look at them. They have the correct rolled bottom flange found on none of the other

In 1949 sugar was shipped in boxcars in bags, barrels or bulk. The first airslide hopper was patented in 1953, again after the date of the Red Owl data. Attached is a photo of bulk sugar begin

Ray Carson wrote: Dark Olive Green. Not sure what is currently available. Tony Thompson tony@...

I can't speak to changes in sugar shipping economics between the 1940s and 1960s, but I can offer evidence that in 1969, from a study of conductors wheel reports, the NP was shipping plenty of loads

Hello, I currently have a Walthers GACX express reefer that I was doing some modifications to match it with the PFE prototype. The problem is I got carried away and damaged the paint and some of the

It looks like it could be a lever related to the brake. The car is early 1900s, so it COULD be related to the brake. Somebody here may have a better the answer.

To follow up on Jim’s comments. American Crystal Sugar was a sugar beet processor. They had sugar beet plants in Mason City IA and Chaska MN in 1949, the year of the shipment data Clark has shared.

After just posting this, I see Tony's reference to California sugar processing. Tony, on the Coast to Coast map I posted and regarding your post, the San Rafael, CA dark dot lists just CO products.

Not to throw the Red Owl warehouse topic off or head off in a tangent, however with all due respect to "where the sugar comes from” regarding the Hopkins MN warehouse; Sugar is (1) a bulk

Very nice looking car Dick; weathering is great. Clark Propst recently did one of these in HO scale; I obtained decals from Mont Switzer to do one as well and even discovered I had an undecorated

Thanks Tony for confirming what I thought. Will make sure I do not have any overdue cars. Fran Giacoma

Great looking car, well done fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Todd Sullivan wrote: Or C&H in Crockett, California, or numerous California beet plants . . . Tony Thompson tony@...

Mont Switzer's 2017 Chicagoland RPM presentation motivated me to model a Monon boxcar. O-scale CIL 9157 began as an Intermountain kit. I scratchbuilt a new roof walk for it from styrene strips, and

Tony and Bruce, I would love to go the other way and lengthen a Kadee 40' Morton running board to 50'. Most Western Pacific/Sacramento Northern/Tidewater Southern 50' PS-1s had Morton running boards,

Following several posts by Clark Propst and others, Todd Sullivan wrote:and later Sugar beets and sugar production were a major business along the NP in eastern Montana into ND and also south of

Thanks for several informative replies, the most informative of which is Chris Frissell's about Great Western in Billings. Now I have a shipper if I want to model sugar shipments. Thanks!! Todd

Bruce Griffin wrote: Exactly what I would recommend, Bruce, but I haven't actually done it. It certainly ought to work. Tony Thompson tony@...

Friends, I did a search of this and several lists and could not find an answer, has anyone ever shortened a Kadee running board? I am building a Rail Shop Carbon Black Hopper and want to replicate a

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