One reason that bottle plants generate cullet is that if a SINGLE bottle is found with a defect called a bird's swing, the entire batch of bottles is rejected and smashed on the spot, even if there

John C. La Rue, Jr. wrote: I forgot to mention, lest there be any confusion, that this is NOT what happens when scrap steel is remelted. You don't get anything like "pure iron," but simply the

John C. La Rue, Jr. wrote: Different process, John. In fact, colored glass is QUITE hard to re-clarify. You can mix brown and green glass, but not put either one into clear glass. And blue

Dennis Storzek wrote: Dennis is entirely right, and the same goes for in-plant steel scrap, aluminum, etc. etc. for all kinds of manufacturing. Nowadays people often mean "post-consumer" when

crushed glass in happers until after glass recycling got to large enough volumes, way out of the era of this list. I can tell you where it's shipped in New England - ask the question on the OPSIG

Blue, Chuck? I thought the cullet cars were the silver ones? SGL Cullet was also shipped from Oneonta in special service fishbelly twin hoppers painted blue. Chuck Yungkurth Boulder CO

A posting came up on the Railway Preservation News trying to ID the provenience of a couple tank cars they (Steam Railroading Institute) recently acquired. Pictures can be seen on the original

MOFWCABOOSE@... wrote: Here in central California there were several glass container plants in Oakland, no doubt providing some combination of packing jars, beverage bottles, and ordinary table

Mike, If all else fails, you might try the guys at Cooper and Oshtemo Locomotive Works, _www.locomotiveworks.com_ (http://www.locomotiveworks.com) , they do a lot of Michigan freight car

I remember living on the New Cumberland (Pa.) General Depot (an army logistics facility) around the time of?cut off date for this list?where there were small stockpiles of chromium ore and other

I received Railroad Prototype Cyc #16 recently and have been enjoying the USRA double-sheathed boxcar overview. I note these cars were built with Carmer Cut Levers. I know many of the

I did a special run of this car in two schemes, the as-built 1952 and the 1964 repaint. Both in the Stewart kit. Nobody that I know of makes these trucks at this time, although the Ulrich cars, I

Kalmback published "More Railroads You can Model", edited by Mike Schafer, in 1978. One of the articles was "Milwaukee Road's Beer Line" and a picture of an open hopper under the cullet shute at the

Beware of the F&C C&O 40' auto car. I tried to assemble one this summer and, thinking it didn't look right, found it to be 6" too short in height and put it away unassembled. Bill Darnaby

Russ didn't seem to make this clear, but you shouldn't be moving crushed glass in happers until after glass recycling got to large enough volumes, way out of the era of this list. I can tell you

Posted by: "George" I remember running upon a NKP hopper in southwest Virginia on a N&W branch back in the nineteen seventies. This was following the merger of the two roads. Kinda limits us

Rich; Thanks for confirming that. Do you know what specific ores or minerals they got at that site? You are right about Westinghouse. They did get shipments, but I don't know if you knew

In a message dated 10/29/2007 2:26:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Elden.J.Gatwood@... writes: Thanks for confirming that. Do you know what specific ores or minerals they got at

There has been a discussion on the Railway Bullshippers group concerning the cars owned by the Tovrea Packing Co. of Phoenix, AZ.? They used the reporting marks TOVX from 1932 - 1938.? No one has

Not steam era but to show the sue of hopper cars..... The bottle producing plant next to the Coors brewery in Golden CO gets about 6 hopper cars of "cullet" a week. Don't know where it comes from but