About 50 years ago the Southern Railway made several thousand pulpwood cars from old boxcars, numbering them in their 126000-129547 series. The boxcar's roof, sides, and floor were removed. Steel

Shawn Beckert mused: Depends when you leave. If you're coming from the west, get off in Naperville and avoid all the terminal delays at Union Station. Tom "don't say 'terminal' to an old person" M.

Jeff English wrote: Hmmm. Amtrak to Chicago...what year would I get there? Shawn Beckert

"Beckert, Shawn" <shawn.beckert@...> wrote: Well, flying isn't the <only> way to travel. You could always drive, or, heaven forbid, actually TAKE THE

Richard wrote: I just realized Bill said *October*. Ignore my question, I gotta quit posting stuff until I get at least two cups of coffee in me. Still, isn't there an airline strike supposed to

No, Bob will not be California. The October meet is in Naperville, IL. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** Bill 'Welch <bwelch@...> Associate Minister, Unitarian Universalist Congregation

That's very good news, Bill, as I never believe it when people with photo collections tell me they're going to make a negative inventory. (Why should I believe them? I've been meaning to write up a

Bill Welch wrote, in part: Um, Bill - Did Bob say *which* of the seminars he'll be at? Monrovia? Pleasanton? Or both? Shawn Beckert

Bill, I too would be interested in any L&N and FGEX photos. This is something I am just now starting to do. Pratt truss L&N boxcar huh? Sounds great. Warren Dickinson

I have not seen anyone report on this but among the highlights at Timonium in late January were steam era freight car photos made by the late Col. Chet McCoy. Bob's Photo purchased Col. McCoy's

Folks In one of the CBCs from the interwar peiod - '31 IIRC- there is a picture of an IC USRA hopper retrofitted with Wine door locks in place of the Enterprise ratchet I'm aware that this was a

Dick, I'd also be interested in your PFE stats file. Could you possibly save it as an older Excel file say 5.0 ? Thanks, Bill Kelly Canon City

Dick, I'd be interested in such a file. Storey Lindsay Celje, Slovenia

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Ted Culotta asked: Ted & all, I put together a chart of most of the dimensions for PFE Steel Ice reefers (I also did wood reefers) taken from the ORER's. It has been part of

Thanks Bill! Yes, I should have realized the reefer was leased TO the Illinois Central, and not to MDT. Duh.

Apparently REA changed their paint scheme in 1952, adding the diamond logo, at which time the name was taken down off the letterboard and put on the left of the door, maybe to help balance the scheme.

Not yet posted. But if you come up with anything, I'll be glad to add it. Since this is still in its preliminary, I'm concentrating on just listing all the kits, and trying to find basic information,

Tim, Here's what I got... Blt by GATC 1937 Blt by GATC 1937 Blt by GATC 1942 converted in 1947 from 52000-55999 series which included wood cars built from 1916 to 1922 from Haskel & Barker, ACF,

I would love to pore over those photos of IC and MDT reefers! And a help would be for someone to identify build dates for these from the 1953 & 1959 ORER: IC 50000-50283 7' 3"IH IC 50284-50299 7'

Thompson, Church and Jones "PFE" has almost everything you might want to know about these reefers. 2nd edition just came out.