Woe betide the man who accidentally sends this car to a grain elevator for loading... -Fritz Milhaupt

I saw the end of that car poking out in what looked like an alley in downtown Winona last fall. Interesting to see that it has come into the light! Andy L. Madison, WI

Group; Is this “Dowel-Loc” flooring? https://digital.hagley.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A2364551/datastream/OBJ/view I have been trying to figure out that story. I imagine some

Both photos are of GN35381, a 50' double door box car, judging by the writing on the inside of the doors. Staffan Ehnbom

I have a copy of RMC May 1960. As soon as I can I will dig it out and send a copy of the article. It will be a few days as I am helping wire a house for a backup generator, should finish tomorrow. I

Hope this gets preserved. LK

Reweigh date looks like 44. Brian J. Carlson

Oh my goodness, you guys with your funny names are so funny, I can't stand it :)

If I'm reading the stencil right, the last reweigh was in 1944? So, retirement from interchange might have been a bit later? -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA

Could someone please explain what this endless thread has to do with steam era freight cars? Ike

wonder what happened to it? ;-)

Gregg Condon forwarded these recent photos of this URTX/Milw wooden reefer in Winona, Minn., serving as a storage shed, and until recently hidden under falsework siding. Here's the

Hello Claus, My apology, I must have been on auto pilot due to Bob's many postings of photographs. Thanks for your best wishes. It seems that the kit is a can of worms with a lot of work required

Grain? Flour? Rough lumber? Two GN cars? Elden Gatwood

I’d guess there was still the manual labor of sweeping and digging stuff out of cracks. A cruder version of this on the PRR showed a guy using it like a multi-aperture hose. More like washing

gives rise to the question, what was the last load, and what load was intended for loading, that required an interior wash down? especially since one of the cars is a GN boxcar just thinking out

How would it sweep or clean past the door apertures? Virus-free. www.avast.com

Dave Lawler wrote: Well, hey, it's a LYE-ma bean, after all. <g> Tony Thompson tony@...

Philip Dove wrote: Bruce Smith is right, pallets and lift trucks considerably pre-date WW II, but it was the experience of so many military folks with that system that hugely expanded its use after

I'm planning on modeling it's Milwaukee neighbor's line to Raymond with barge service to South Bend. Take Care, Brian R. Termunde Midvale, Utah Re: [Funny names and pronounciationss From: Chuck