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Re: Model: SRLX 6310

I was going to reply something similar, but then remembered we used to use yellow filters to pop SP’s red nose out from the gray. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

By BRIAN PAUL EHNI · #187161 ·

Rapido announces HO Scale UTLX 10,000 gallon X-3 tankcar

You read that right. https://rapidotrains.com/products/ho-scale/freight-cars/ho-scale-union-x-3-tankcar Andy L. Madison, WI

By Andy Laurent · #187160 ·

Re: Model: SRLX 6310

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:20 PM, Scott wrote: There has been discussion that the top was reefer yellow not red. The letters in the photo above are to dark in my opinion to be gold. But it doesn't

By Dennis Storzek <dennis@...> · #187159 ·

Re: Model: SRLX 6310

Clover House offers dry transfers for this scheme. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

By Richard Townsend · #187158 ·

Re: Manure shipped by rail

Hello RobertFor many years the PRR shipped carloads of manure from farms to the Kennet Square PA area. The loads were destined for mushroom growers located throughout the area. After many years, the

By Steve Salotti · #187157 ·

Re: Model: SRLX 6310

There has been discussion that the top was reefer yellow not red. The letters in the photo above are to dark in my opinion to be gold. But it doesn't make much sense as why they would not have

By Scott · #187156 ·

Refrigerator Cars As Grain Carriers

Refrigerator Cars As Grain Carriers On those probably rare occasions that ice bunker refrigerator cars were used to transport grain because of boxcar shortages, how would the grain doors be secured

By Bob Chaparro · #187155 ·

Re: Model: SRLX 6310

From Carroll Schmitt collection Brian Leppert Carson City, NV

By brianleppert@att.net · #187154 ·

Re: Model: SRLX 6310

I notice it’s derailed. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Bob Chaparro via groups.io" <chiefbobbb@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date:

By BRIAN PAUL EHNI · #187153 ·

Re: [EXT] [RealSTMFC] Model: SRLX 6310

Bob, The paint scheme is prototypical and was just offered in the latest run of the Rapido General America 37’ reefer. Rapido offered two numbers, 6307, and 6310. Regards, Bruce

By Bruce Smith · #187152 ·

Model: SRLX 6310

Model: SRLX 6310 I photographed this N scale model of a Swift refrigerator car on the recent Pacific Southwest Region/NMRA Convention layout tour in Orange County, CA. The car is decorated in an

By Bob Chaparro · #187151 ·

Fertilizer by any other name would smell as sweet (was Manure shipped by rail)

[in re: rail shipment of "steersch", as a family friend called it] I'm more familiar with the shipment of sugar beet beet pulp to feedlot, whereat the combined aromas of the two organic waste

By Nolan Hinshaw · #187150 ·

Re: [EXT] [RealSTMFC] Manure shipped by rail

Since 1926 (I looked it up) the city of Milwaukee has sold dried sewage sludge under the brand name Milorganite. Once a year, a golf course north of Grand Rapids, MI would receive a 40' boxcar of

By Alex Huff · #187149 ·

Re: Manure shipped by rail

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 05:11 AM, Robert G P wrote: Hello group, I model the midwest and wanted some extra uses for my gons and hoppers so It was my conjecture that "bulk" manure loads might be an

By Andy Laurent · #187148 ·

Re: Manure shipped by rail

Gons were used for shipping manure, not aware of hoppers being used in this service. It was also bagged, which could be shipped on a flatcar or in a boxcar. In the Midwest most often it was coming

By Douglas Harding · #187147 ·

Re: [EXT] [RealSTMFC] Manure shipped by rail

Bob, I don't think that would be realistic. First, manure needs to be composted before it can be used in gardens. It is too "hot" and full of hay seeds. That's fine to spread on the fields, but a

By Bruce Smith · #187146 ·

Manure shipped by rail

Hello group, I model the midwest and wanted some extra uses for my gons and hoppers so It was my conjecture that "bulk" manure loads might be an accurate bill for them? Lets say the manure is

By Robert G P · #187145 ·

Re: Prototype Discoveries

Bruce Smith wrote: Like many states, California outlawed bobbers early in the 20th century, and SP quickly complied. In the early 1960s, for another example, the state Public Utilities Commission

By Tony Thompson · #187144 ·

Prototype Discoveries

And I might add that these laws, in some states, exempted some uses of bobber style cabooses, allowing their continued use for locals, and yard jobs. As a consequence, the PRR had class ND bobbers on

By Bruce Smith · #187143 ·

Re: [EXT] [RealSTMFC] Prototype Discoveries

Paul, Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my post earlier today, but the outlawing of bobber cabin cars has nothing to do with interchange. Indeed it was not regulated by the authorities that typically

By Bruce Smith · #187142 ·

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