Dean Payne wrote: "My Kadee #208 (red bag) washers don't quite fit over the... bushing?...inside the coupler box. There's a #210 "coupler washer", but that might not be the right thing, either,

Guilty as charged, I have switched to using Kadee #78 couplers on my most recent resin kits (I started this first, and am finishing it late). This car will never be an award winner, I got it cheap

Friends, I noticed that the reweigh station list included "CH" and "YC" as symbols for the Sacramento Northern. I don't doubt that Richard Hendrickson is correct about "CH", though I have never seen

Rob Kirkham asked: "I've reviewed all the photos of the X28a I could find on line, which is just about none. Thankfully the X28 photos are pretty clear. From these I understand that when built as

The Newberry Jct PAs produce inspection records I've been researching show MDT cars on the ERIE occasionally, never in blocks, rarely even 2 in the same train. On the origin of the two cars on the

After receiving much very helpful advice lately about how to put a cobble of one of these X28a cars together from Red Caboose X29 parts, I noticed the comment that this kitbash would not duplicate the

Chet- Thanks for the IC information. Though I lived just south (Brookfield) I didn't learn too much about the IC operations with my concentrating on the Q! Thanks, Charlie Vlk

far as livestock at the cars to produce, meat the This was also the case with the IC, Charlie. Meat and perishable cars interchanged to the IHB at Broadview before the 1:30pm cut-off time was moved

Dean Payne wrote: "I think the Kadee coupler box has too much play, or is it because I used a McHenry scale sized coupler? I might try a shim inside the coupler box, if that would help reduce the

This should be East Tulsa, OK. My typo. Jim Brewer Glenwood MD

I figured out what the problem is with my couplers, while I was working on a few cars with low trip pins today. I noticed the couplers drooped on the GR gon... and the coupler box looked tilted!

Ranyd Williamson writes: And your point is? Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

Aidrian Bridgman writes: Can't answer this one; let us know if you find out. Note that the list does include TY for Thomas Yard. Thanks! One more small piece of the puzzle. Richard H.

In 1954, the Pennsy received 7,500 cars of perishables from the Chicago Produce Terminal. Approximately 60,000 carloads of perishable traffic eastbound were handled through the Dolton interchange

Question ET SLSF East Tulso OK Is this "East Tulsa" or "East Thomas" which was the Frisco's yard in Birmingham, Al? The latter *may* have been ETH, but I have never seen definitive

Charlie is quite right. Low priority freight such as coal and other bulk minerals might have taken two or three days to thread its way through the Chicago maze, but perishables were handled

ed_mines wrote: According to the PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1948 AAR's SUPERINTENDENT's CONVENTION, the "Tide distribution orders" of the ICC had been ended and the distribution of reefers were as per

Boy do I wish I could find this kind of day-to-day information on the Cotton Belt, or even the SP-TNO. You must have done some serious dumpster diving back in those days, Chet! Shawn Beckert, very

Jeff Aley forwarded comments of Mark Amfahr; among them were: Mark obviously is unaware that there was no per-diem on reefers; they were charged by mileage moved, so storing them was "free" in

I wouldn't put too much stock in the Chicago bottleneck theory as far as perishables.... The CB&Q had strict shedules to drop eastbound reefers and livestock at the IHB interchange at Congress Park.