"Shoot from the hip" O'Connor once again shoots himself in the foot. 1. The Caswell gondola was not a Santa Fe design. It was designed and patented by the National Dump Car Co.; see e.g. pp.

In a message dated 3/23/2007 4:27:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, fleeta@... writes: IIRC the rule is that cars built before 1974 (or so) over 40 years old and cars built after 1974 over 50

All, Apparently Mike is still under the influence of various prescription medications. All of this stuff about steam locomotives is OFF TOPIC for STMFC. There is a very nice Yahoo!Group called

Elden Gatwood wrote: "Over-design: Perhaps. Given the entire fleet of cast steel F30A, F30D and single car sub-classes survived almost completely intact until the legal end of interchange life, they

The CB&Q had Caswells, and it looks like some Canadian cars were built to a similar design if not under the Caswell patent. Charlie Vlk

I would be tempted to argue about the validity and aesthetics of streamlined locomotives, but that is a distraction we do not need. CJ Riley --- Mike Brock <brockm@...>

Mike Brock writes: "As far as Santa Fe's design mistakes in the 30's, 40's and 50's goes...I'm thinking about them. And thinking...and thinking......Gimmeee time..." Well, they left the belpaire

Kurt Laughlin wrote: I would have to dig out the compositions, but I doubt it was heat treated. It could have been, of course, as very large annealing furnaces certainly existed. If you mean

an internal argument made that 10'6" box cars would just confuse shippers, add to spare parts inventory (and thereby increase the cost of maintenance) , Tim O'Connor ------------------------------

Note that I changed the subject <G>. Richard Hendrickson writes: "All true, but please note that these monstrosities were all constructed before John Purcell became the Santa Fe's chief mechanical

Several of them, in fact. All true, but please note that these monstrosities were all constructed before John Purcell became the Santa Fe's chief mechanical officer in 1912 and immediately began to

Peter, Even in the Chicago area the most commonly seen PRR cars were those cast steel flats. They may have looked terrible but they were in service and the steel mills had no problems loading

One of my biggest complaints with people not changing subject lines is that a thread may wander into an area I AM interested in, and I will delete it all without reading it because my interest in the

is? reefer in yellow the Ed, the New York Central System Historical Society has just what you want- their magazine "Headlight" for 2nd quarter 1990 (vol.xx#2) has on page 6 a photo of MDT 17508 in

Mal, There is such a group already; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shock-jocks/ Although its about as active a RR electrification in America. regards, Andy Miller

Tim, Yesterday I mentioned the CB&Q SM19 series "Z" bracing. They did specify Cor-Ten Steel. Basic design was used to build cars from the late 30's until the early 60's. From what I've heard it

Mike Brock wrote: I started looking at trains a 4 year old living one long block from the SP Chandler (Burbank) branch in the very early 1950's. (Off topic, but I even saw a very strange, for a 4