Todd, Thank you for the correction re location in Machinery Hall. I took a course there in my sophomore year (1967-68). Never in my wildest dreams would I have envisioned how much

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

Todd, Please excuse the misnomer. Ken Montero

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Nice. John Holmes

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

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

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

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

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,

 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

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

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

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

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