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Re: DRGW Pacific Fleet Coal Contract

Yes, the coal was from the Anthracite coal field north of Gunnison in the Crested Butte / Elk Mountain Area. Ironically, a lot of that are was and is owned (in terms of mineral rights) by the UP as a

By Bob Webber <no17@...> · #39798 ·

Re: DRGW Pacific Fleet Coal Contract

I was told that DRGW had the contract to supply the Pacific Fleet with coal up until the fleet's conversion to oil in the 1930s. Has anyone else heard this? If so, I assume that the coal was

By gary laakso · #39797 ·

Re: Hart Ballast Cars

Richard Hendrickson notes: When I made the statement I thought...hmmm...wonder if UP was handing any coal off to C&S at Cheyenne? UP, at that time, was moving coal from Rock Springs and Hanna...west

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #39796 ·

Re: Freight Car Wheels

C'mon, Ted, while your tongue is in your cheek, bite down hard on it as a reminder to think before activating keyboard. Teaching, research, and consulting is what metallurgists do. They research the

By Richard Hendrickson · #39795 ·

Re: Southern's 40' Low-Side Gondolas

Like the low-side gons owned by other y'all railroads (e.g., ACL, SAL), the Southern's cars were intended primarily for limestone service. In the only two photos I have of these cars were the loads

By Richard Hendrickson · #39793 ·

Re: Hart Ballast Cars

labelled "gravel loaded Not necessarily. It depends on what the ballast is. Cinders were a common steam-era ballast and fill material, and are a relatively light aggregate. A Hart gon full of

By Jack Mullen <mullen.lahr@...> · #39792 ·

Southern's 40' Low-Side Gondolas

List, In regards to the low-side 40' gondola that Ted Culotta will eventually be bringing out: http://www.speedwitch.com/Models.htm What exactly did the Southern use these for? It's an unusual

By Shawn Beckert · #39791 ·

Re: Hart Ballast Cars

Ordinary gravel was one of the most common carloadings in the steam era and HK hoppers were well suited to such loads. Ballast -- as in railroad ballast -- would likely be (by comparison) relatively

By Dave Nelson <muskoka@...> · #39794 ·

Re: Hart Ballast Cars

On Mar 24, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Mike Brock wrote: Mike Brock writes: > In addition to other stuff, UP used these cars for carrying coal...as they > used every open top hopper or gon they owned. During

By Richard Hendrickson · #39789 ·

Re: Hart Ballast Cars

But those are just small nits to pick, right? 8^) -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

By Brian Paul Ehni <behni@...> · #39788 ·

Re: Hart Ballast Cars

Jim Betz writes: In addition to other stuff, UP used these cars for carrying coal...as they used every open top hopper or gon they owned. During our time period, I doubt that UP was hauling coal off

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #39787 ·

Re: Freight Car Wheels

What's that saying about those who can't do, teach and those who can't teach, consult? Running for cover with tongue firmly in cheek.... Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 100 14th Avenue, San

By Ted Culotta <tculotta@...> · #39786 ·

MCB designations

I'm trying to establish when the CB&Q first classified its freight cars by allocating class identification letters and numbers, based on the MCB class designations. I believe that the MCB first

By Rupert and Maureen <gamlenz@...> · #39785 ·

Re: Freight Car Wheels

Several members of this list have been sharing their misconceptions regarding chilled iron vs. wrought steel wheels without consulting any of the extensive documentation on this subject. To quote

By Richard Hendrickson · #39783 ·

Re: Hart Ballast Cars

Jim Betz wrote: I always put such a load on a platform which sits at the right height in the car, since I weight cars so they can be run loaded or empty, and thus don't want a heavy load.

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #39784 ·

Hart Ballast Cars

The recent(sort of) releases of the Atlas Hart ballast gons have me asking the following: 1) Isn't it true that cars of this type were, for the most part, in captive/MOW service on their

By Jim Betz · #39782 ·

Re: Freight Car Wheels

Tom Jones III wrote: I don't agree. Wrought steel wheels were made early in the 20th century but were quite expensive relative to chilled iron wheels. This is misleading. In the 1930s

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #39781 ·

Re: Erie 10 panel high side gons with drop doors

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: "What Dean said is correct: They are not AVAILABLE lettered for Erie. It isn't correct to say they were NEVER available lettered for ERIE." Scuyler, you misquoted me -

By benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> · #39780 ·

ADMIN: 51 barge messages

Those wondering about the 51 messages from Chris Barkan, the messages went to the STMFC through Yahoogroups. Apparently, Chris was experiencing some kind of problem and, apparently, Yahoo

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #39779 ·

Re: Barge Full of Boxcars

You are lucky,I got it 50 times.A Premo

By armprem · #39778 ·

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