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Photograph from the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library. Caption: “Celo Company of America warehouse, 701 Pierce Street, shot composed of first freight car shipment of Celo soft drink, two

By Bob Chaparro · #190795 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

Hi Allen and List Members, Perhaps they used a portable conveyor. Or they used a bulldozer. Or they used a front end loader. Or they used a steam crane equipped with a clamshell bucket. I

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #190794 ·

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

Hi, Warning - very little content of this post relates to STMFC's target topic. Relative to the IBM 7074 at SU ... I worked as a computer operator at Fireman's Fund Insurance in San Francisco

By Jim Betz · #190793 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

Hi Alex, Eric, and List members, I agree with Eric - the tanks were storage vessels and were sometimes located remotely from the plant. With respect to the appropriate era for gas holders,

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #190792 ·

Re: Keeley Can

Klaus, That as what was done (babying the affected car) on the Santa Fe. In the 1980s, we had a total failure of a roller bearing between Joliet and Romeo, on the Illinois Division. The bearing

By Larry Buell · #190791 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

In some places these storage vessels were called gasometers. To an extent they behaved like water towers, in that they provided a certain pressure to the system. If you see these vessels at

By mopacfirst · #190790 ·

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

Those early IBM machines gave rise to 'list processing' languages like LISP. I still use GNU Emacs daily for text editing, a very powerful and extensible tool written in LISP.

By Tim O'Connor · #190789 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

Not always, Alex. Consider them as storage vessels, too. Here’s a portion of a 1923 Hopkins plat map of Pittsburgh. An Equitable Gas facility is located adjacent to a B&O branch that is

By Eric Hansmann · #190788 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

I can't speak for the USA but in the UK the gas holders usually survived as storage facilities for natural gas, only about 40 years after they stopped making coal gas did they stop using the tanks as

By Philip Dove · #190787 ·

Re: RI 161071

Rich that is a very nice-looking RI Automobile car Thanks for sharing George Toman

By gtws00 · #190786 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

Are gas holders such as the one in the photo always associated with a manufactured gas plant? Does it follow that they would be obsolete when natural gas took over the market? Alex Schneider Sent

By Alex Schneider · #190785 ·

Re: Westerfield B&O O-27A gondola

John Thank you. Paul Doggett

By Paul Doggett · #190784 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

No doubt whatever in my mind that the heaps are coke. I lit and tended enough coke fires when I was in my teens. Coke is a dark grey with a slightly silverery metallic sheen, it is full of tiny holes

By Philip Dove · #190783 ·

Re: Erie boxcar, late 1940s

This all makes sense but how was the coke in the foreground placed in the pile? I do not see a crane or conveyor? -- Allen Cain Modeling The Southern RR in 1955 in HO Scale -- Allen Cain Modeling

By Allen Cain · #190782 ·

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

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

By Kenneth Montero · #190781 ·

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 ·

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