Greg most of the brick and tile works in Iowa produced primarily brick and/or drain tile and building tile. Drain tile was round in various sizes and used for sewers and for draining farm fields.

Hey, that's great news! Do you know if Sunshine is taking orders for them yet? built 1955. from below bottom Sunshine. He's looking for similar solid bottom gons to match the L&N and Monon

Not every car that needs weight is a "house" car, capable of concealing coins, sinkers, tire weights, nuts, or "designer lead" weights. The idea that lead shot could be glued into an underframe made

Interesting info Malcolm. On the OpSig list there has been a lot of back and forth about whether operators needed to know what was in a car they were delivering, ie should such info be on the waybill

Ray, I was hoping you had found something new! Mont Switzer Ray Breyer <rtbsvrr69@...> wrote: Oops; finger slip. Make that Monon gons 3001-3300 (page 10 in the 1948 freight car

No Drainage tile and tile building blocks. Clark Propst

Oops; finger slip. Make that Monon gons 3001-3300 (page 10 in the 1948 freight car diagram book that I have) Ray Breyer --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get

Tim I did a Google search on "Tim Gilbert caboose" and found the following info "The definitive reference to date is Tim Gilbert's B&M Cabooses - A History of Devlopment & Use 1914 - 1955 (B&W,

Peter Boylan writes: "Lead is an environmental problem that is easily dealt with if keeping children or adults from ingesting it, or inhaling airborne lead dust is your goal. Yet, we have attacked

Ray, I'm getting into this thread a little late. What is Monon 6001 that you mention? As far as I know this number was assinged to a flat car. Mont Switzer Ray Breyer

Elden Gatwood wrote: "Bill, You really need to talk to Ben Hom, as he has done considerable research on FGE and the PRR." To give credit where it's due, Bill has done far more research on FGE than

When I was a kid growing up and in to my 20s, We used all the things and did all the things that they tell us to day will kill us. Carbon Tech. We had it in pans in the shop and washed parts in it.

Hi Tony, Thanks for the tip, but Frank's already done those cars for Sunshine. He's looking for similar solid bottom gons to match the L&N and Monon cars. Regards, Ray Breyer

Bill; You really need to talk to Ben Hom, as he has done considerable research on FGE and the PRR. The State Archives at Harrisburg contain a lot of PRR correspondence, but not everything. A lot

Lead is an environmental problem that is easily dealt with if keeping children or adults from ingesting it, or inhaling airborne lead dust is your goal. Yet, we have attacked the problem with

What book on railroad cabooses did Tim write? I searched for any books with author = Gilbert but didn't find any caboose book. Tim O'Connor

Clark, I am guessing that you are talking roofing tiles? My father managed a hardware store in East Liverpool, OH for many years and he always talked of his relationship with the PRR and inbound

I wanted to thank all of those who responded to my query regarding the FEC "Car Ferry Company. I would of course still like to turn up a photo showing an example of their reefers that were sold to FGE

Recall that Keith Kohlman did a great presentation at Naperville some years ago and an article in Railroad Model Craftsman on the Pugh Coal and Coke Works at Racine, Wisconsin. Coal was used to make

Here is some additional information on coal sizes that was on the docks in Duluth/Superior. All of this coal came off lake boats and so these numbers could be used both in shipping loads away from the