Could these be the prototype in question? # Ga-168 Hopper Cars Series 76700-76999 built 1969 longitudinal hoppers # Ga-170 Hopper Cars Series 64025-64038 built 1969 copper concentrate service

I just toured the US Gypsum plant in Fort Dodge, Iowa with the CNW Historical Society in March. We learned that Sheetrock is a trademark name, like Kleenex or Frigidaire. That US Gypsum has been

Tim, Yes it does but the AT&SF seemed to be full of these oddball ideas. If you take a three bay GA-122, remove the hoppers and replace with lengthwise doors and build up or borrow flat car ends,

Just to round out the "geographical roll call," whole neighborhoods of houses in San Francisco were being constructed with sheetrock/drywall in the late 40s. I grew up in such a house as did most of

Mike Maybe they chose to cater to (gasp!) the post-transition era?? After all many modelers like those 1960's cars (incredible as it may seem!) Tim 'pre post modernesque transition era modeler'

Russ I think you are right that the prototype car was built for copper concentrates. SP had some really weird looking cars built around the same time period for that commodity. That model of a hopper

Fellow listers, Would someone who is familiar with Canadian passenger train operations please contact me off-list (obviously). Thanks, Shawn Beckert

Does anyone know the dates for this year's show in Naperville? Thanks, Gene Deimling Proto48 Modeler http://www.proto48.org

I guess I should look in the flat cars book -- were any of these F-70-7 conversions?

As per an article in the October 1927 B&M EMPLOYEES MAGAZINE, the Atlantic Gypsum Products Company of Newington NH shipped a full train load of its wallboard and plasterboard in boxcars on September

I'm not a chemist but, I think the gypsum holds the kaolin together. Kaolin is the "filler" in many of the products that use it. And yes, my part of the country was and has been very poor until

Wow...man!! I've learned something today..... I guess down here in the middle Georgia area, we've always been behind the rest of the world. My old home place still has the plaster and batten strips.

I note that Athearn is producing a C&NW version of the 65 ft mill gon. I also note that the Athearn numbers: Gondola, C&NW #95081 & 95156 do not match the numbers Richard reports in his article in

The Santa Fe began applying end bulkheads to existing flat cars for gypsum wallboard loading immediately following WW II and by the early 1950s had many cars assigned to that service, owing to the

David Smith wrote: To mention just one railroad, SP bought nearly all longitudinal hoppers until the 1960s, and they were equipped with either "Hart Selective" or "Enterprise"

In 1949, SP began converting flat cars with bulkheads for drywall service. From the outset many were marked "when empty return to plaster city," a drywall plant on the SP in the Imperial Valley.

Greetings, Sheetrock was in used in Augusta, Georgia, by 1947-1948. I am aware of several neighborhoods that have houses built next door to each other, some with plaster, some with sheetrock,

David, While it is not a normal GA-122 it could be a conversion. AT&SF liked to kit bash configurations. I have no information on a GA-123 class. It appears to me that if the body of a GA-122 was

It does model a Santa Fe Ga-123 class car, of which 60 were built in the Topeka shops in 1963 for bulk mineral (not ballast) service. So it is out of era for the STMFC list. Richard Hendrickson

"Don Worthy" <don_worthy@...> I guess the south of Don's youth (Gordon, GA) was different from mine (Doraville, GA). My parents bought a new house in 1956 that had sheetrock walls. Kaolin 90%