From Carroll Schmitt collection Brian Leppert Carson City, NV

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:

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

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

[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

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

Bob, I have evidence of 4 carloads of bulk manure being shipped in gondolas from Union Stock Yards in Chicago, IL to an orchard company in Sturgeon Bay, WI. The shipment was made in one block (4 cars

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks. Never thought to look at F&C website. And the Kinkaid collection is slowly starting to show up in my brain as another place on the web that I should probably check first. You're right about

The Northern Pacific built 200 4-wheel cabooses between 1905 and 1907. They had a 12-ft wheelbase, were 19 feet over the end sills (body length) and 24 feet 2 inches over the coupler pockets. There

Paul When I was researching my Missouri-Illinois RR book I found that the MR&BT’s bobber cabooses were ‘grandfathered’ under the Missouri RR Commission laws. Meaning the four wheeled cabooses

Let me add that there are a couple of nice prototype pictures among the Jim Kinkaid collection at IRM Pullman Library Railroad-U-Z - Pullman-Library (smugmug.com) Steve Hile

There is a model underbody view on their webpage at 8140.html (fandckits.com) Steve Hile

I built one of these F&C kits. Build notes and photos were posted to my blog in 2013. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2013/06/18/resin-freight-car-kit-builds-part-2/ F&C promoted this kit as an

Where four wheeled Bobbers “outlawed”, outlawed from interchange, or was there a series of different laws and regulations beginning and ending at political boundaries? Paul Catapano Winchester,