In case anybody cares, the word "Grange" is a shortened version of "Grain Exchange". Cheers, Ian Wilson

Jim Are these photos really from the 1920's? The cars have AB brakes for one thing. I would have guessed the photos are from the immediate postwar (1940's)

Thank you, Dennis. I apologize for the brain fade. Richard Hendrickson

out of the Charles the Car with the While I'm sure that there was much contentious debate about which style of boxcar should be designed, as illustrated by the fact that the USRA designed two (no,

Garth, Take a look at http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=949 and http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=950 These are conventional tank cars loaded with wine but the

wrote: Err, James E. Lane, CPA is cited as author of the 1973 article in Railroad History. Edson is cited in the end notes as the author of a 1955 article on the USRA in general, but the statements

My .02, How about defining Granger's by tons of grain originated or tons of grain originated / total tons originated? (who's got the annual reports? or STCC stats) -- Allen Rueter StLouis

Hi Dan - Ben Hom has very helpfully posted an easy to look at PDF that also has identification information for several of the cars noted on it. Its at

Yes. In fact, I just recently received a fine photo ca. 1910, courtesy of Gary Rauch, of one of these cars being loaded with sugar beets in Colorado, and apparently sugar beet loading was fairly

Westerfield has announced the limited run release of Santa Fe Class SK L/N/P Caswell stockcars. The prototypes were stockcars with the Caswell dump mechanisms built into the floor. I understand

There was certainly a great deal of confusion about which railroads got which cars from the USRA. As William D. Edson pointed out in his seminal account of the USRA standard freight cars (Railroad

I think that's a relatively safe inference. Richard Hendrickson

Hey guys I was there. A clerk on The UN PAC at Salina Ks and Topeka Ks from 1948 to July 1951. I would come on duty at 12:01 AM and look at the spike. All the agents with grain elevators in there

Hi Folks Many thanks to all of the people who helped identify the "granger railroads"! My motivation for seeking this clarification was to examine the proportion of its fleet that was double

I've have worked at a Naval Ordnance Station, although not on any thing quite as impressive as the 16 inchers. A lot of the stuff we shipped and recieved was protected by either a yellowish

To toss a match into the gas tank,why then did the Canadian roads rely on single sheathed car for their grain traffic? Armand Premo

The CB&Q was allocated 500 DS box cars in 1918 although it had completely moved away from DS when it built its first SS box and automobile cars in 1913. The AC&F- built DS cars, numbered

I believe the late David P. Morgan, editor of TRAINS magazine in the 1940s-1970s, coined the term "granger railroad," but I have no hard evidence to support that statement. Anybody else know? Bob

Andy Sperandeo wrote: Wow! That's going to make it easier to list the NON-granger railroads <g>. Obviously a whole bunch of transcontinentals became grangers in this definition, as well as