Cleveland Car Specialty Co. pressed steel arch bar truck, in which the conventional steel bars of the arch bar design were replaced with pressed steel U-section frame members. Richard Hendrickson

I once watched a cement truck loading from a rail car. The driver had a measured stick on a stand that he placed under the truck. As the truck was loaded, the body of the truck lowered slowly until it

Archibald & Darnall, purveyors of concrete block and precast shapes, was a likely recipient of carload cement in Bloomington from the plants up north on the IC's Charter Line from approximately 1910

Surely you've seen the I.M. Pei hoppers.? They're ugly, an insult to the hoppers around them, and they don't work for their intended purpose. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

Fact: The local local cement plants covered hopper loads were and still are weighed, each and everyone. Appreciate your insight Larry Clark Propst out hoppers. plants RRs

FYI Not all cars were weighed. The shipper and the RR would work out an agreement Where the RR would accept the shippers word on the weight. If you had ever seen any of the waybills you would know

A few points that I haven't seen addressed explicitly in this thread. a) Looking at a 200 mile radius, here are some marks that you would have a good chance of seeing on cement cars in

Brad, I recall very little cement traffic going south from Dixon and Lasalle/Oglesby. One or two cars to the various interchanges most days. Modahl & Scott redi-mix at Bloomington also received

We don't see too many models of box cars in Aerial views of the yards at the cement plants in Mason City in during our time period are full of box cars. Lots more than covered hoppers. The bulk

Chet, What impact did that generally north- and/or east-ward shipment of cement have on the southern end of the Amboy? I seem to remember Bill Dunbar writing that the first section of 372 was

SNIP>White cement. Medusa was one of a few manufacturers of cement (especially the white) there may have The local plants brought in white cement and resold it just for special orders. It came bagged

We've had several new folks join STMFC so for them, and as a reminder to the rest of the membership, here are the STMFC rules: The purpose of the group is to discuss all aspects of North

Tony, That's part of why I asked, because at various layouts I've operated on, none have had scalehouse or operations relating one so I've never seen something like this in action. Granted, i'm

Hi Jim, It was not uncommon to see Seaboard or ACL "cement hoppers" on other railroads in the East and Midwest. In many cases, these cars would be carrying phosphates from Florida to fertilizer

Schuyler wrote: I know that John explained this, but I find the "keeping the cars in the correct orientation" isn't a credible answer. But what are the characteristics of the "Walthers thread" (and

Malcom, A few points: On the CB&Q all cars were supposed to move on individual waybills. There were pads of "Slip Bills" available for empty cars and there was only supposed to be one car on each

On p22 of the Pere Marquette Revenue Freight Cars book, the pic of #30196 has another set of trucks I've never seen before. Does anyone who has this book know what these trucks are? Frank

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Actually, Schuyler, engineering departments at plenty of places DO build concrete canoes and in fact race them. There is nothing sillier about concrete for a floating

I can confirm concrete ships, but not Pei's private concrete cars. One of my instructors in Architecture school designed them as his contribution to the war effort. He claimed that all of his sank

I believe Schuyler is correct; the old MDC truck had roller bearings but otherwise resembled the B&LE truck (minus the brake shoes and hangers)... Charlie Vlk