We'll call this one "Weathering Gone Wild". I usually prefer to understate weathering, but this undec Accurail was a convention door prize, and other than a few detail modifications, served as a test

This is pretty interesting... need to find out where to get Department of Commerce decals! I noted the following at the Catskills website in Garth's post: "Nowadays a fleet of modern tank trucks

Bob, Interesting car, and very nicely restored. A number of other states owned fish cars as well. A similar car with a diagram of the interior layout is shown on page 367 of the 1919 CAR BUILDERS'

Wisconsin Fish Commission Car “Badger” Link courtesy of Rich Mahaney: https://www.midcontinent.org/equipment-roster/wooden-passenger-cars/wisconsin-fish-commission-2/ Click on the photos to

What I said. Unloading grain (or other) filled boxcars by hand was slow, labor intensive, and expensive. Obviously expensive enough for big operations to purchase these elaborate machines to speed up

True there were grain un-loaders as Dan describes. Photos attached. Usually installed are very large terminal grain ports, where time was crucial, ie to load a waiting ship. Or where a large number of

Even in an age of low wages it must have been slow and expensive … otherwise there would have been no market for the large, elaborate, and obviously very expensive boxcar unloading machines. These

One of the main reasons the railroads hauled carfloats like this in New York harbor was so that they could minimize shifting at the float bridges. The tug stays in the middle while the barges split

out of curiosity, has it ever been mentioned how many people were required and how long it took to manually unload a boxcar loaded with grain? thanks mel perry

Good photo showing the use of a “power” shovel. Note the pulley on the lower edge of the photo and the man holding the cable used to pull the shovel, via an overhead winch or motor. There should

Not being a barge expert, since I was born and raised in Nevada, I can see the reason of the “V” as the tug is actually pushing against sides of the barges sort of wedged in. The lashing is meant

Photo: Wilson Reefer 9272 A photo from the Penney Vanderbilt And KC Jones website: https://penneyandkc.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/maybrook_yard_005.jpg According to the January 1955 Equipment

Photo: Unloading Grain A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/6696/rec/31 Click on the arrows and scroll on

Photo: Oregon Fish & Game Commission Hatchery Transport Car Photo courtesy of Taylor Rush on the Facebook Early Rails Group. https://tinyurl.com/yn9kh4f8 His comment: “An interior shot of the

I'm also a little late to the party on can loading in boxcars. The Ahnapee & Western in Wisconsin had customers that received cans in bulk. Evangeline Milk Company produced condensed milk for First

I’m coming late to the party here, but just another tidbit. At one time they did actually stack the cans loose in rows inside the box cars. I don’t know when that practice may have ended but the

Otto… This is a great time to visit/hike the Merced River area. This is from a few years ago: Jack Burgess

Interesting. I thought there was an icing platform down there somewhere, but if you look at the bottom of that photo, just left of center, there is a string of reefers with their hatches open and a

Lol, Jack, you wisely chose to model the YV before the railroad was abandoned not too many years later😁 I’ve always admired your work, and the YV, but never more than during our very recent trip

Seems a Reading XMu class box has made an appearance. William Dale