Jim Gerstley wrote: Two oil companies (DX and Richfield) advertised boron as an additive in their gasolines back in the '50s, and Sohio went even further with its Boron brand gas stations. Tom

Al; It looks to me like a donkey engine boiler that has exploded! --- Art Richardson Clinton, MS

One of the reasons it may not be listed in Moody's in the 1950's is that its predecessor was Pacific Coast Borax, wholly owned I believe by Borax Consolidated Ltd in England. The mines used to be

Beckert, Shawn wrote: Andy Sperandeo is right: this is River Station yard. The same photo is in my SP Freight Cars Volume 1 in the stock car section. As I noted there, I cannot find a car in

Ted, Thanks for reminding me. Now that you mention it, I remember it. CDS makes the best set of lettering for the car (in HO) -- I'm not sure, but I believe they made lettering for the car in O as

Hi Marty, My company, Rails Unlimited offered the car in resin several years ago, in two versions, with or without end door. Do you know of a source of O scale GTW/ CV decals for the car? I will

I'm trying to identify when the Fort Worth & Denver purchased 36 x FM-14/14A flat cars (89100-89599 series) from CB&Q, renumbered them to 641-676. The first six were shown on the roster by October

I've been gone for a week and thought I'd stop by the site to see what's cooking. I mentioned before I spotted the new car in a video Kadee had running in their booth at a train show in St Paul.

Dream on, Andy, dream on . . . SGL

Chris I'll bet there is another drawing out there... somewhere.. This is just a "general plan" drawing. There may be a "bill of materials" or other auxiliary drawings for every freight car. (He said,

Tim: As you might have noticed, NP diagrams seldom offer useful information on brake appliances--e.g., http://research.nprha.org/NP%20Flat%20Cars/52%20Ft.%20Flat%20Cars%2064000-195.jpg So we pretty

Jeff Pape asked: From Aaron's web site (www.northernspecificmodels.com): Npin53 (at) northernspecificmodels (dot) com Tom Madden

Tim: May have been my own problem somehow. The new pages wouldn't load until I cleared my Firefox cache--reload button had no effect. This is not a problem I have had at other sites. Sorry for the

I don't have my copy of Petty and Mullaly's "The SP in LA" here with me, but my guess is that "mystery freight yard" isn't Taylor but the older River Station Yard. That ladder of double slip switches

The W&R brass cars have an elaborate brake wheel, with a fairly flat profile. I will look at some references tonight and try to figure out what it is supposed to represent. Appliances like brake

Guys, Every once in awhile the Los Angeles Public Library will post on their web page a photo that's of interest to this list. This one is a doozy: http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics40/00054503.jpg There

Apologies l:ist and Ted....and i did it twice in row, sheesh. Fortunately curses against Microsoft are socially acceptable in all circles (even in the steam era). Chris Frissell Polson

BTW, it works just fine in Safari and Firefox on my Mac. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

chris, i'm using firefox 1.5.0.1 -- no problem at all

Ted: Yup, the new decal page loads in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox. The Speedwitch home page loads different too--an older version loads in Firefox. You might want to mention that on