We called them "sawdust tires"

Scott park one at your depot or team track that’s where many of them were loaded then it can go to an off site paper mill Fenton

I remember clearly when our snow tires had bits of wood chips embedded in the rubber (I am pretty old). Seems the rubber wore faster than the wood chips, and little wood chips would be sticking out

Folks, The recent photos of pulpwood unloading has spurred a question. In the 1950s, were there any other uses for pulpwood and wood chips aside from paper manufacturing? I have some freight car

The improper securement of tracked equipment on flat cars was the cause of a serious wreck on the CB&Q. On April 3, 1947 at 10:40pm a International Harvestor TD-18 fell off of Southern 51327, a

Bob Chaparro wrote: "Other than the blocking the crawlers don’t seem to be secured by and cables or chains." I have made this point numerous times on this list; other than to secure logs chain

The train in the background is quite interesting, with what looks like a couple of boxcars, a tank car, a boxcar with windows (MOW?), a hopper, a State of Maine car, another boxcar, a caboose and two

Photos: Unloading Pulpwood At The Great Northern Paper Company Photos courtesy of James Perz on the Facebook Great Northern Paper Company Employees group. From Wikipedia: Great Northern Paper

Photo: Receiving International Harvester Crawlers At The Great Northern Paper Company Photo courtesy of James Perz on the Facebook Great Northern Paper Company Employees group. Flat car is

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This topic has been discussed a few times. These "caboose laws" have been mentioned each time but few people note the specific states that enacted these laws. As train lengths and

Fenton’s right. They came with T-brace, early and late Hutchins ends, but no buckeye end version have I heard of. Westerfield has a good description of these car variants and models of

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 10:10 AM, Claus Schlund \(HGM\) wrote: The car in question sure looks a whole lot like the car in the attached image...Except that the car in the second photo lacks ice

My Sanborn maps shown a spur off the New Orleans Terminal ( SR sub.). The New Orleans Fairgrounds were only 3-4 blocks from this spur. Haven't been able to find any pics. Also this was a seasonal

All- Horses today must be different. Most all of the horse trailers / transport trucks I pass on the highway have horses looking out the window seemingly enjoying the scenery. But I agree that

From the NPRHA

Any caption in a Morning Sun book is suspect until proven to be correct. :-D On 8/2/2022 3:12 PM, Charlie Duckworth via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling,

That’s what the source said -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

thanks! :-D On 8/2/2022 11:56 AM, Bob Thompson via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

BAR Insulated Boxcars At Great Northern Paper, Maine Freight Car Enthusiast Photo courtesy of Stuart Chirls on one (there are two) of the Facebook Freight Car Enthusiast group. He