No I do not think it is silly. You can buy US of A made carbon steel bits. There are some tools made on speculation but are sold through tool companies to shops manufactures that study the cost use

Tim O'Connor wrote: Not correct, Tim. Molasses is not the same as sugar syrup. The SP cars were modified to accommodate, and were used by C&H Sugar of Crockett, CA for, shipments of sugar syrup.

Tim, I'm not familiar enough with the PRR in that area to know. According to a map I have, the Van line to Vincennes is only 15 miles south of the Monon mines at Midland IN., so it is likely there

Larry Jackman wrote: I agree with Larry's comments on drilling speed. But the statement above is silly. Would you agree, Larry, that they would not make those crappy cheap Chinese tools for 99

Tim, The SP tank cars with the "S" on the dome were often seen at the C&H can sugar refinery in Crockett, California. They might have also been used at Holly or Spreckles refineries, but of that I

Gene, For one about in the middle of this time period, the 4/57 ORER lists "Department of the Navy" (USNX) located in Washington, D.C. and "Department of the Army" (USAX and DFAX), located at the

Tim Gilbert wrote, with no tongue visible in cheek: The subject of N&W hoppers on Sherman Hill has been a running joke since the inception of this List. It stems from Our Fearless

In 1954 the following cars were delivered to Rochester In by the NKP to the Wilson Coal And Grain Company: 1954 189 Wilson Coal & Grain 2/22/1954 Rochester IN 317 GMO BLOOMINGTON NKP 649 Mobile

Pat; If you can, whenever you can, I'd be interested in seeing what you have as far as Navy cars. When I was stationed aboard the USS Camden (AOE-2) at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, I'd

Tony Thompson wrote I saw a whole bunch of clean looking 40 ft PS-1 box cars in 1999 in Wisconsin, on the Fort McCoy military base west of Tunnel City. Didn't get any pics though... Here is a map

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