I like the way you guys are always referring to the car service rules as if they were chiseled in stone. They really meant nothing if you needed a car. On the RRs I worked for if we needed that

Those military freight cars came with handsome cast builder plates. I have shots of a 1951 PS-1 plate and a 1955 tank car plate. Pat do you have the builder photo of USAX 11722 -- a 103W identical to

Mike Aufderheide wrote: Mike, Did the Pennsy serve any mines in southern Indiana? I don't think they did in Illinois, but I could be wrong. Still, Indiana is a thousand miles closer to PRR's coal

Clark, There was a feed dealer in Woodsville NH who received molasses in 55 gallon drums which were emptied into a tank (which was a tank car in a prior life). I doubt the drums were arrived in

the sugar plant is there any special type of tank car this would have been shipped in? Anyone have any examples of tank cars hauling molasses. > Hello Clark: When I was growing up as a boy we lived

Tim, Thanks to the work you did on the Monon Query conductor logs I can offer a midwest perspective on how prevalent these cars were. I was surprised that half of the 28 HTs recorded off the log so

Bruce Smith wrote: I doubt that a N&W Hopper would "stray" westbound over Sherman Hill. Rather it was "tethered to" mines on the N&W because of Car Service Rule C-411 requiring empty hoppers of the

I'll bet this car was equipped with heater coils - warm molasses flows a lot better than well, cold molasses <G> BTW, what would be the restriction (if any) on cars moving between something like

Clark Propst wrote Ordinary ICC 103 tank cars could be used for molasses. Usually they would have heater pipes installed to warm the molasses to unload it. The Southern Pacific had a number of tank

Hi Clark, The July 1992 "Model Railroader," page 100, included a drawing of an AC&F Type 27 tank car lettered for blackstrap molasses service, GATX 7801 leased to Harry L. Laws & Co. I'm familiar

Bruce, Item one----The Railroad according to Brock; "Any H21a seen on Sherman Hill was built by Pacific Car & Foundry, and shipped new, eastbound over the hill." Next

Hi, One industrial supplier who does sell individual drills is Production Tool Supply of Detroit, Mich. <www.pts-tools.com> PTS has drills down to #97 (.0059"). In sizes down to #80 they have four

Not necessarily anything... given the huge size of the fleet and the fact that cars DID go off-line, there is certainly the chance that an H21 would stray in much the same manner as say an N&W

Last night the TV show 'Dirty Jobs' guy spent part of the show in a feed mill. I have a feed mill on my layout and did some research on it. One ingredient I may have missed is molasses. The temp at

Bruce Smith wrote: There were no H21's reported by UP Conductor Fraley in either his Fall 1947 or Spring 1949 Wheel Reports. Aberration? What was so special about coal mined on the Pennsy which would

Sure looks like a car that could be used in interchange service to me. Could those who have ORERs in the 1950s please look up the Air Force therein to see what if anything is listed. I'd like to

Hi all, Does anyone on this list collect/have timebooks or wheel reports for Missouri Pacific employees in Illinois? I am particularly interested in timebooks and/or wheel reports from MoPac

Help please. I am looking for a current address for a Mr Alvin Smith, last known to be living in British Columbia. Mr Smith is a purveyor of railroad photographs, including, undoubtedly, freight

I forgot to mention 5 X the drill diameter is a deep hole and care needs to be taken when drilling that deep or deeper. Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@...

You are right on Carbon Steel bits. They would not make them if some body did not have a use for them. But I have written about speed of a bit in plastic before. Speed is not the reason your plastic