Tim, We are getting way out of scope here. Roofed coal gons, not hoppers belonged to Big Stone Power. Those covers have been removed. Motivation was different. The Montana Sub-Bituminous is very fine

Shipping to dealers today is the next batch of assembled RTR Branchline Blueprint cars. A full list available at http://www.branchline-trains.com/blueprint/rtr/rtr7.htm Note that this group includes

Dennis Storzek wrote: Yet the 1927 article said that the wallboard and plasterboard were produced at the Newington NH plant. Tim Gilbert

product. Ed - The sheetrock quarry and facility was (and is) located at Dittlinger, texas, just south of New Braunfels, on the I-GN. A few years ago, they were still making wallboard. A.T. Kott

This wasn't so much for wind resistance as for the fact that the S.D. coal being hauled in these cars is little more than burnable dirt, and that a significant fraction would be lost to the wind in

I think it's very much a regional thing. In areas like Chicago, with a lot of commercial work and strong plasterer's and lathers unions (at one time lathers were considered a separate trade from

A while back (thread # 55767, Jul. 19,2006), I said I would return in a couple of days with details on best sources of usable material on the mechanized loading of coal from eastern points, into back

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