Bob American Motors was a minor player in the automobile industry as was Studebaker. They weren't as wide spread as the big three. rwitt_2000 wrote:

Jeff, I admire your courage at defending the indefensible. I have given many thousands of dollars to Amtrak over the years, but I'm not a customer anymore. I think most people can tolerate an

Point well taken Jeff. Like the 4 hour layover example coming up for someone. My thoughts are I'd rather be 2 hours late getting in to Chicago and spend that time on the train, even if it is sitting

Lake never less While this can be true, it nonetheless is indicative of a "double standard" in peoples view of on-time performance. If you were driving from New York to Chicago and estimated it

There are a few nice older freight car photos at this site. http://www.castlegraphics.com/graphic/transportation/rail.html Clark Propst

Tony Thompson wrote Remember that the auto industry was de-centralized in the steam era! Cars were built as close as possible to customers. So the rail share of auto traffic was not nearly as high

I will try to make it down those 20 miles this weekend and photo those GTW 50' cars. If I can get inside I'll measure those grain lines and take pics. Terry

Shawn, I sent John Nehrich a Soph Marty jpeg of a GTW car with the end doors open. It would have been taken in the late 50's early 60's. I remember giving the shot the wrong location. It is posted

You guys is all lightweight coffee drinkers. Out here in God's Country we drink Real Coffee. And if there's any of it left over, then we mix it with gravel, and use it to pave our roads with! P.S.

Someone recently asked about Seley hoppers and who had what. I asked a similar question a few months back. I've pasted below an informative response from David Thompson. Hope this helps. Eric

I for one will be thrilled to see an accurate Santa Fe mechanical reefer at long last! But how can we get a PFE and an SFRD car in plastic? Sounds fishy, pardon my skepticism... They have little in

Not exactly the case based upon the recent article in RMC about the specially built yard in Bain, Wisconsin on the C&NW for the American Motors assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It seems to have

Terry, Next time you visit those cars you should measure the distance from the floor to the grain load lines. I assume they are at a lower height than those on 40'boxcars. The 50'car should reach

I’m in the process of building a Sunshine CB&Q XM-25 (kit 17.1). The kit comes with K brake components and I would like to update it with AB components. Does anyone have any info on the layout of

I have a photo of GTW 460305, a steel rebuild of one of their double sheathed cars. The logo is a tilted square containing the underlined text 'GRAND TRUNK WESTERN'. The logo appears to have a

List, The AT&SF Dry Ice cars will be released by Sunshine at Monrovia next year. I too was looking forward to seeing these at Naperville but it will not happen. I spoke with Charlie Slater

It most assuredly would have been (I presume.) I am hopeful someone can say for sure. Thank you for the heads up. Regards, Ted <image.tiff> Ted Culotta Global Supply Manager Corporate Procurement

wrote: Shawn, The Wabash end door cars were built at Decatur shop in 1942 and were numbered 18000-18024. The Wabash 1943 equipment book show them as XA's. All later books and the ORER's show the

Navy coffee, Army coffee, trail coffee, West Virginia truck stop coffee, etc., is all real coffee. Anything else is froo-froo Yuppie aid. Coffee is supposed to be dark brown, thick, hot and strong

Ted, I wonder if the "Pure" logo was in color as well as the flame insignia: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cirillo/petro/pure.htm Shawn Beckert