This sure sounds like a bunch of "Buffalo Chips" to me. The hybridization of feed hasn't changed the colors of forage and grazing grasses enough to alter the chip colors. Until commercial livestock

Paul Catapano wrote: In LA DIvision TT 222, effective Oct. 28, 1962, trains 833/834 were still the Ventura sub connnections of Coast Division freights, as Shawn Beckert reported for 1955.

Hi all.......Has anyone received any info on the Sunshine meet in Orange County on March 2nd?.......Best Jim Williams

If only I'd know... All those years of wandering the open range, I apparently should have been photographing dung instead of rocks ;-) FYI, there's no danger of confusing cow pies and antelope

In a message dated 2/8/2008 11:43:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, brockm@... writes: <<But that's the point, Doug. Florida grasses are quite different from those in Iowa and/or Wyoming.

Beckert, Shawn wrote: Shawn, please see pages 70, 71 in Signor's _Beaumont Hill_ book. It does depend on era. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Paul Catapano asked: Paul, and Tony, I did some serious digging in the timetable collection last night. In addition to confirming that 833/834 were indeed Coast Line (Ventura Subdivision) freights,

I can see it now, next January in Mike's layout room: Stock extra 4012 West, the "Fecal Flyer", Cheyenne to Laramie..... Tom Madden

Great stuff! And lots OF it!!! Frank Mike Brock <brockm@...> wrote: Doug Harding notes: But that's the point, Doug. Florida grasses are quite different from those in Iowa and/or

Tom Madden wrote: Glad someone besides me noticed this <g>. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

I like what Tony said. It should look full, but with some degree of ambiguity. If the load clearly looks like animals, then it will look wrong for half of the car's miles and when it's in the origin

Frank, On the Bamberger 50' box car from the photo Ive seen it looks to be a Freight Car Red. This off a color slide. Ryan Ballard

Mike Brock regales us with tales of colorful cow chips and the confusion he experiences because the large number of "analopes" (an interesting mispelling considering the subject at hand - and

use. The consider a was visible. FWIW, I have begun shooting the interior of my stock cars with a medium gray, weights and all. You'd be surprised how subtle the effect is; in my opinion, gives the

I use a thin layer of lead sheet on the floor, painted black like the floor. The lighting is rarely good enough to notice the floor inside a stock car and besides my eyes aren't small enough to see

Doug Harding notes: But that's the point, Doug. Florida grasses are quite different from those in Iowa and/or Wyoming. Wouldn't it be better to match to a chip in the area of actual use? To add to

I closed Outlook, reopened it and now the main page link works. Doug

I got to the index page last night through the link on the aclsal.org main page. Today that link does not work. The /index.htm is still on the link but not on the page URL. Doug Brown

I had to go to the site and take the / index.htm off of the link..... Rob --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

Mike Brock wrote: Mike, Haven't you modeled those chips on the federal grazing land alongside your track work climbing up and over Sherman Hill? <VBG> What color are those "chips?" Regards, Spen