The Amstar plant in Baltimore, Md. still ships sugar in covered hoppers, just not as much as they used to. The tank cars are for liquified sugar, which Amstar ships quite a bit of. A side line

Try emailing them at hq@... . They have over 100 reserved now. I'm in Western Canada and a non-member. My payment was $77.90 US$. Mansell Peter Hambly COQUITLAM, BC

You might try the web site...NMRA.org CJ Riley --- Lawrence Rast <rastlr@...> wrote: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself

I had emailed the NMRA several weeks ago encouraging them to reprint the book. Might be worth a try... Lawrence Rast

Ed, the plant you're talking about was also an ASR facility and is still going strong. This plant is several decades old, and until about a year ago their utilities entered the plant over a bridge

Bill...Welch?...writes: "That number matches the FGE series originally built by the PM. Can anyone tell me if this car is stil there and in a place it can be photographed?" I think I probably

---How does one go about preordering this ?? Doug Gardner In STMFC@..., "Lawrence Rast" <rastlr@...> wrote: filled were

--- In STMFC@..., timboconnor@... asked: I wonder if they shipped out any covered hoppers of sugar? In the '80s I worked for an employer on the Hudson River a couple miles north of the

Bill Welch kindly refers to the "restored FGE reefer at the [California State Railroad Museum]". This fine 1924 ice wood reefer 35832 never actually needed "restoring" in the usual sense, and in fact

Russ, The truck in the photo is a 70 ton Dalman 2 Level truck with Barber lateral motion devise. An HO 50 ton version of this truck is available from Tahoe Model Works. Would you like me to e-mail

When i went to visit the railroad museum at Snoqualmie, WA, last fall it was at the depot. It was painted yellow w/ brown ends, but no markings. It also had a Preco Fan arrangement. That was where

Al, Well that's a start. I do not have that book. Let's try another approach. If I wanted to buy a model of that truck what would I be buying? Russ

Shine, "NP Color Pictorial, vol 1", p 110, shows NP 51248, partly behind a W-3 Mikado the photographer for some reason was interested in. :-) The gondola's truck is nicely lit though the shot isn't

Clark, If your search for a prototype for the stock car fails you can always take it off its trucks and place it in a barn yard and use it for a corn crib. Seriously, stock cars and wood

Clark, If your search for a prototype for the stock car fails you can always take it off its trucks and place it in a barn yard and use it for a corn crib. Seriously, stock cars and wood

All, Am looking for a photo of one of the NP 51000-51499 series of drop bottom gons, AC&F built in 1929. They had trucks cast by ASF. Design is shown as: "Dalman Truck (Barber Type)" If car photo

That looks to be just fine. Was doing some drawing sorting. NP 35652 is for: NP 4700-4999 = 50'6" 100M Box NP 84000-84188 = Double Deck Stock NP 14000-14499 = 40'0" 80M box The width is 28 1/2",

Tim, I'm pretty sure the Domino refinery in the NY Times article was not served by rail. I've seen Jack Frost 3 bay PS-2's in the BEDT (Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal) yard several blocks north.

Posted to the files section a photo named "BCE X50.jpg"; this was found on-line without any credits. The photo is probably from around 1975, given that the bridge visible in the background was built

Somewhat tangental to STMFC but I thought this might interest a few folks -- that NYC was at one time a major refiner of sugar. This is a story about the ASR (Domino) refinery in Brooklyn. I wonder if