Thanks to all for the input. Here’s what I know so far - The “later” photo dates to post 1963 - based on the fact that a large “pregnant tapeworm” interlocked CV is most likely the

Bruce Are you certain of that? Enrichment facilities at Hanford and Oak Ridge certainly produced nuclear bomb materials, and it had to be moved to wherever

New York Despatch was a reefer line operated by the Grand Trunk Railway dating from before they were taken over by Canadian National in the 1920's (1923 as I recall) The GT lines west of the

Philip, Hahahahahaha! No. They transported fuel, and bomb components. It was a different era and today's safety rules were not in effect. Regards, Bruce

Why did GTW use the NYDX reporting mark? As far as I can tell, only GTW reefers carried the mark. On 8/18/2022 9:06 PM, lrkdbn via groups.io wrote: -- Tim

Nuclear waste is not always spent fuel and highly radioactive materials. Paper towels and everyday garbage from Xray suites in hospitals is also nuclear waste but described as low level nuclear waste.

Marty, ATSF 33600 is a Bx-O boxcar. Santa Fe bought 7000 of them between 1905-1907. I can’t tell if that car has an end ladder or not, but they were added in the 1911-1916 time frame. I wouldn’t

As has previously been noted, the lower image of GTW 206971 shows a former NYDX 8000-series car, which were first listed as being renumbered to the GTW 206900 series in the October 1942 ORER, with the

Charlie I’ll try to scan what you want tomorrow Fenton

Charlie, If you contact me off list, I can help with that. Scott Haycock

That series of GTW reefer was built in 1937 as NYDX 8000-99 They were lettered GTW starting in the 1940's. As stated above, some lasted to the early 70's RMC and Mainline Modeler had articles and

Tim thanks but the L&N Xm-1 has Murphy ends. I just need a good image of the B end. I don’t have RPC18…unfortunately. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Marty, The sharply curved roof and sloping light stripe on the car truncated at the left edge of the lower photo makes me think of a CV milk car in a wet noodle scheme. I don’t know the exact year

Yeah! Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Thanks!! Clark Propst Mason City Iowa

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 01:18 PM, Robert kirkham wrote: The car has interesting roof fasteners. The ends look familiar, but the number per “panel” surprises me.This is an example of a NONflexible

RPC18 covered the XM-1. Plenty of L&N photos including a real nice B end shot. One photo of a GA car. Or if by GA you mean General Arrangement drawing, those are included too. Andy Cich

The 1923 proposal shows up on p.120 of the 1925 Car Builder's Cyclopedia (ignore the Enterprise drop doors in the floor), helpfully available

Nuclear fuel is transferred to the reprocessing plant in England in special trains, with two cars containing the fuel, with an engine top-and-tailing the train. The Us has a very large, brand-new

Speedwich Media's Prototype Railroad Profile #1 covers the L&N A.R.A. cars. It is similar to Ted's Essential Freight Car articles in RMC in scope and modeling tips.