Hi All........The book, "The American Gas Station", is by Michael Karl Witzel and published by Barnes and Noble in 1999. It was one of their in store "specials" when I found it in one of their

Jared and Chuck: Here's what you need: OCLC 28927327 040 DLC 020 0801847230 (alk. paper) : $32.95 020 0801847249 (pbk. : alk. paper) 050 TL153 .J27 1994 082 338.4/762928/60973 100

Jared, There is a book titled "The Gas Station In America" The title including the series it is from is: The Gas Station in America (Creating the North American Landscape) that as I recall

Black is correct for cars before the late fifties, with Roman lettering. There was a period in the late fifties and the out-of-scope early sixties before the introduction of the familiar block

Guys - I have several questions for the New York Central experts out there! This pertains only to NYC container gondolas in Lot 755-G, which carried (5) large-size (8" taller) air activated

I have been on a few troop trains and never on a single one that had a caboose,but that doesn't mean it never happened.Armand Premo

Bruce Smith wrote: Ed, There are several possibilities - 1) The cars were so full of troops that the train crew needed the extra space. 2) The cars may have been destined to be dropped

Where can I look to find the relationships among some of the various oil companies--Kanotex, Skelly, Sovereign, and Derby are the ones I am mainly interested in. Jared Harper Athens, GA

I'm finishing the decals on Greg's car from the Cocoa Beach Clinic and was wondering where the end initials and numbers go, on the top rib, above the top rib, or someplace else. Brian J Carlson

stefanelaine wrote: Stefan, It was in the early-to-mid 1930's that the ICC mandated the use of AB Brakes. All new freight cars built afterwards had to have AB Brake Systems. Freight Cars built prior

The appliction of AB equipment to most cars did not involve "rebuilding." Standard practice was to fit the AB cylinder onto the mounting where the KC cylinder/reservoir were originally installed and

Jared, There is a book titled "The Gas Station In America" that as I recall listed all/most of the beginnings and mergers of oil companies up until 1990 or so. Sorry, I don't remember author

Larry, I don't know about WWII, but by the early 1950's (Korean War era) this was no longer true. There are many MAIN trains shown (in their entirety!) on the UP outside of Fort Riley, KS in the

As I understand it, K brakes were banned in interchange on tank cars as of October 1, 1953 and had a final ban (returning cars)by January 1, 1954. Is there evidence that there was a large scale

On the UN PAC the main trains used cabooses for the train crew. The military had their people in the cars. Thank you Larry Jackman Boca Raton FL ljack70117@...

On some railroads, a caboose was always tacked on to a troop train. Whether this was a practice on all roads is a question some might be able to answer. Tom ________________________________

ed_mines wrote: In 2003, Bob Greene, a columnist for one of the Chicago papers, wrote a book about the North Platte Canteen - "Once Upon A Town - The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen." The book

Ed, There are several possibilities - 1) The cars were so full of troops that the train crew needed the extra space. 2) The cars may have been destined to be dropped somewhere and the train crew

Thanks Bill! The photo I have shows no locks on the side, but it does look like its been recently shopped. The car has fresh paint and patch panels on the lower part of 5 out of 9

Last Friday night I taped a program on PBS about the canteen for WWII soldiers in North Platt, Nebraska; the soldiers got off the train when the locomotive took on coal and water and then reboarded 10