The book has a photo of an open side HJH tub car. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "BRIAN PAUL EHNI via groups.io" <bpehni@...> Reply-To:

The book I mentioned has a drawing for an open side tub car for L.. Forman & Sons, Pittsford, NY Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Schuyler Larrabee via

Correction. The Heinz cars were tubs, but this photo shows they may have been enclosed. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Schuyler Larrabee via

Heinz had such cars, and they were in Pittsburgh. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Schuyler Larrabee via groups.io" <schuyler.larrabee@...> Reply-To:

My original follow-on question to the photo that started this thread was intended to suggest some other users of the circular tub variety of pickle cars that would have been seen in the northeast, PA,

Eric: do you have David J. Leider’s “Pickle and Vinegar Makers of the Midwest”? I don’t think it applies directly to your situation, but it has lots of info on plant layouts, photos of plants,

Claus; I wish I could say that was so, but LOTS of coke, sometimes hot, was loaded into composite cars: box cars, gons, hoppers. Lots of torchings! There are some great photos and stories of

David, I'll have three pickle and food production plants to serve on my future layout with HJ Heinz, Lutz & Schramm, and Cruikshank Brothers. Have you stumbled across details for

 Hi Elden and List Members, Elden wrote: "There is a lot of correspondence out there on the travails of this service, including...coke-torched box cars" On this list we were recently discussing

I didn't realize that "beehive oven" was a term of the art, thinking it was more a historian / modeler's term. I stand corrected. Dennis Storzek

Folks; PRR had some intentionally doorless cars they put in dedicated coke service, but accidentally doorless cars were not unheard of, with cribbing taking the place of a need for a door.

 Hi Ken and List Members, Good catch, Ken, I had not noticed that. If loading coal into a boxcar, perhaps a door is optional and the opening will be covered over agian with cribbing after loading

Sguire-Dingee was a Chicago company, but had salting stations all over the midwest as w3ell as subsidaries in other parts of the US. Pickle cars of this type were used all over to pick up salted

Is the door missing on this car? Is there some type of cribbing inside the doorway? Ken Montero

Hi List Members, B&O twin hopper and (probably B&O W-1) quad hopper Atlas Coal Corp Flemington WV undated https://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/030221 Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, B&O 320460 twin hopper Likely near Rosemont or Flemington, WV (undated) Note the train brake air line along the bottom of the car side, at least two patches applied to the steel

Hi List Members, GRCX 3800 tank - Koppers Coal Co Grant Town WV 1938 https://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/032354 Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, C&O 40ft steel gon end view Island Creek Coal Co WV (undated) https://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/036014 Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, C&O 73753 hopper end view Island Creek Coal Co WV (undated) https://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/036017 Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Here is a builder's photo of W&LE 5000, built at the SSCC Butler Works in 1906. Keith