Hi folks; I was wondering if any of you that had any of the Sunshine Beth gons that have a fixed end could tell me if it looks close to the Beth gons P&WV had in their 7200 series? They are

" Richard Hendrickson (who just happens to have a Ph.D. in Applied English Linguistics)," also just happens to be retired, and may be presumed to have spare hours to spend on this kind of

up?<G> qualifies as the the last 50 the other somewhat to each and down I agree. People ride in GONdolas and steel is loaded into GonDOLAs. During my career of 41 plus years speaking railroad

When my son was 2 and a half years old he called them gon-doh-dohs. They'll always be that in my mind from then on. Brian Botton

In a related issue, my aunt (who was born in North Carolina circa 1915 and later lived in eastern Kentucky) used to say "GON-dul-lers" even when speaking of coal hoppers. And those were, after all,

Ed Mines raises an interesting question here, and Rich is at least half right in his response. Current American dictionaries show both pronunciations, though they don't agree on which is the more

Never heard any of that before. Are you sure you're not makin' that up?<G> It's always been gonDOla up here. And I don't think Montana qualifies as the south. Not even close. I've been saying it that

Hi Ed; Well, since all the photos were from a specific collection, shot in California, possibly no PRR, NYC, C&O or B&O cars were included in the collection? That isn't to say there were none

Ed Mines wrote: "Wasn't a new PRM supposed to come out the beginning of this year?" I'll leave this one to Ted, whom you could have directly e-mailed instead of going out to the whole list since he's

Ed, Do you say "towmayto" or "tom-ahto" (or here in the South, "Tehmate-er")? Where I come from, it is a "gondoughla", but in other parts of the country it is "gahn-dola". Our big Websters gives

Dennis wrote I would suspect that by 1913, when the car side patents were applied for, the basic steel framing was all prior art, and the only thing left to patent were improvements in details. It

Rich, That is exactly true but I believe Ed is talking about the pronuciation that is like in Venice Italy where the second "o" is pronouced like a short "a" sound and the last 2 syllables are said

Dear Ed and other listers: This is a good example of southern english vs northern english. If you pronouce the emphasis on the first sylable, ie: GONdola then it is "northern" english. If you

Wasn't a new PRM supposed to come out the beginning of this year? How about the freight car book with photos taken in Harrisburg scheduled for release at the last NMRA convention (or was it

According to a TV show gondola is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. Have I been saying it wrong for 50 years? Ed

Last night I saw a History Channel "Modern Marvels" program on freight trains. It was mostly modern with about 10 minutes of steam era footage. About 12 minutes into the progam they showed an SFRD

Via Rick Leach: Between 4-54 and 8-54, based on observing paint dates on reefers. Hope that's close enough. Note they were still using the Northern Pacific herald at that time, not

Hey Guys, I wanted to let ya'll know that I've been able to get copies of "Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Vol. 12 and Prototype Railroad Modeling Vol.1. Both are really nice. I haven't been able to get

A lot of the Auto Parts box cars (That Ford designed) had that "DF" in the 60's WJK

(MON) Workers demolishing a building across from Santa Fe Southern tracks in Santa Fe, NM discovered that its first floor had been made from 4 Santa Fe reefer cars built in the early 1900s. A Santa