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Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s / Stamford Coal Gas Plant

Hi Ken, The 7074 (a dead end IBM architecture) was in Machinery Hall in the 'glass house' room in 1964-65 when I started takng short programming classes. SU got an IBM 360 Model 50 later, and had a

By Todd Sullivan · #190780 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s / Stamford Coal Gas Plant

Todd, Please excuse the misnomer. Ken Montero

By Kenneth Montero · #190779 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s / Stamford Coal Gas Plant

Tim, Was the 7074 in the basement of Smith Hall at Syracuse University? I thought it was a 360 series machine. Ken Montero

By Kenneth Montero · #190778 ·

RI 161071

Greetings, Thank you for the nice comments on Southern gondola 55587. As promised yesterday, today’s completed project is Rock Island 161071, a 40’ automobile boxcar built from a Sunshine

By Richard Remiarz · #190777 ·

Re: Keeley Can

I have a sidebar in my book on the Yosemite Valley Railroad which a YV brakeman told me about Keeleys: PLAIN BEARINGS “The YV had plain bearings in all of [the trucks on] the cars, and when

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #190776 ·

Re: Keeley Can

Like a burned clutch or brakes. Smells like burning seaweed. If you’ve ever done either, you know. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

By BRIAN PAUL EHNI · #190775 ·

Re: Keeley Can

Or moving as fast as they do today, and with cabooses. I once rode a train where we had a hotbox occur, and even after they repacked it, you could clearly smell it from the caboose. Hotboxes were

By Todd Sullivan · #190774 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

I agree with Claus that the piles in the foreground are likely coke. I've seen coke from West Virginia coking operations, and the color is a gray that is lighter than bituminous coal from which it is

By Todd Sullivan · #190773 ·

Re: Westerfield B&O O-27A gondola

Nice. John Holmes

By John Holmes · #190772 ·

Re: Keeley Can

Hi Tim and List Members, I think the intention was to 'baby' the car with the bad journal at very low speed to the next siding - not to blast along at normal operating speed. The train crew may even

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #190771 ·

Re: Keeley Can

It surprises me only because I know that the heat could be so intense that journals were known to 'melt' and just give way. But I guess in those days the train crews

By Tim O'Connor · #190770 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s / Stamford Coal Gas Plant

Tim, Fascinating article on the Stamford gas and electric utilities. In 1970, I joined the IBM family of companies in the Service Bureau Corp. as a rent-a-programmer, and one of my assignments was

By Todd Sullivan · #190769 ·

Re: Keeley Can

They must have, or they wouldn't have used them. I've heard SP&S vets talk about them. I don't recall a description, and it's hard to believe they used something as fancy as this one. Ed Edward

By spsalso · #190768 ·

Re: Keeley Can

Tim my understanding from the BRHS group is that these were filled with water and hung from hooks just above the truck with a hotbox. A hose was run to the journal box/bearing that was overheating,

By Douglas Harding · #190767 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

Hi Tom, Todd and List Members, Great photo, thanks. The industry looks to be a manufactured gas plant - also sometimes known as a coal gasification plant just as Todd suggested. A

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #190766 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

Coal gas, yes! https://www.stamfordhistory.org/rg8.htm On 2/26/2022 1:37 PM, Todd Sullivan via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor · #190765 ·

Re: Keeley Can

Interesting! I grabbed them because they'll disappear after the auction ends. :-) Did these things actually work? -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor · #190764 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

That industry in the background is interesting, also. Coal gasification plant? The coal looks lighter than bituminous, but anthracite doesn't have much gas content... Guess it could be a power plant

By Todd Sullivan · #190763 ·

Re: LS&BC covered hoppers

Group, There has been a good response about printing these decals. The idea is to do a limited number to offset the cost of a full sheet of decals at the printer and use up the available space. Just

By Eric Mumper · #190762 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

That’s a cool photo, Tom! Thanks for sharing. This has a few weathering ideas. Check out the Pennsy hopper above the loco tender. Compare the paint outs and bold new weigh stencils with the rest

By Eric Hansmann · #190761 ·

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