Most everything I've seen on this subject indicates that hatch covers were kept in the closed position unless ventilation was required for the load. Certainly there were directives on the Santa Fe to

Don, Thanks for bringing up the point about the steps. I hadn't noticed that yet and it is a very important detail factor. I went and looked at my C&O and C&EI photos and saw that difference. I

Green Bay & Western 14000 or 15000 series double door outside braced boxcars... I have several shots of these cars after their 1958 rebuilding program put single 8' doors on these cars, but I have

Russ Strodtz wrote: Sure, and I've never quarreled with the assertion that SOME cars must have had their open hatches (for vent service when loaded) left open. But I do assert that this was

Give me a date and builder & I'll see if we have a B&O Durea underframe drawing for that car in the Pullman Library - usually $25 for a copy of the builder's linen drawing for personal use

Tony, Think that an attempt is being made to assign a pattern to what was actually a random event. This is similar to the "open box car door" issue. If one of the Western roads gets a 100 car

TimO'Connor wrote: Good point, Tim--but I'm not aware of heater use for this purpose. Remember, the interiors were heavily varnished, including the floor racks and the bunker walls. After about

Several actual consists of express trains of grapes are listed

Hello Group, I live in Westlake,OH and at one time it was the world's largest shipper of Concord grapes.[or so they claim].They were shipped in refrigerator cars on the NKP to the Welch's plant in

Bob- Walthers makes a 4- window version riding on UP wood beam trucks. Athearn, with having tooling in both N and HO (the N Car is based on a D&RGW prototype instead of the CM) could pick another

Frank has moved and has aging issues which makes further printing impossible. I have what is left of his picked over slide collection and have been scanning them for the Santa Fe Society. He tells

not to mention that reefers with open hatches could be subjected to prolonged rainstorms... the dampness issue makes me wonder -- how could they use reefers for shipping magazines or books? did they

Charlie Vlk wrote: Caboose (albeit with lowered windows so the roadname could be accurate out of this tooling as the CB&Q, ATSF, CM, MP, NYC and a host of other railroads had 30' (over the corner

Ray Price wrote: Ray, Frank has not sold photos for some years. He has age issues (I don't know whether it is Alzheimer's or not) and cannot do printing or shipping any more. Whether anyone

Peter J. McClosky wrote: These amusing postcards were common early in the 20th century. Note in this particular one that the car shown is one SP never owned (nor is the car number a gondola

Hello, I am trying to find out some information on a fellow who used to sell freight car photos. His name was Frank M. Ellington and he used to be located in Panora, Iowa. I purchased some photos

Bob Chaparro wrote: The whole URL, to save searching on the site, is: http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7779q91m/? query=Turlock%20grapes&brand=calisphere If this folds onto two lines,

Yep. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail,

Jerry Michels wrote: Yes, it was normal practice to close them. Both PFE and SFRD instructed yard crews and ice deck crews to close them. It is a railfan/modeler myth that "open hatches mean

Bob, Andy, et al.: The /Central California Traction Company/ by David G. Stanley and Jeffrey J. Moreau has quite a lot of information about railroad haulage of grapes. This excellent book is