More from the 1950 Freight Traffic Red Book... "As peddler-car service is really the granting of a less-than-carload service on carload freight, it can be accorded only when definitely provided for

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /P P Tariff 13 Section 6.pdf Uploaded by : john66h

http://www.columbusrailroads.com/Ralston%201940%20cars.htm This COR-TEN steel offset hopper built in 1940 would have been black with white lettering in service, right? I shouldn't pontificate to

Posted by: "Jon Miller" > I'm willing to extend my question to include George's question about meat. I see no need to be quite so restrictive on the topic.< I don't think meat is defined as a

Semi off-topic, but if you are interested in old farm equipment, tractors, trucks, engines & generators, etc. check out the 55 acre Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, California, north of

Gene Green wrote: Same here. In the 1937 CBC the skip is from page 96 to page 101, in the 1943 it's from page 79 to page 100, and in the 1946 it's from page 71 to page 100. All with a note similar to

Ed, To answer one question: Yes. Not sure when diesel engines became popular in tractors (I'm sure someone tried it shortly after van/von Diesel built his first engine [in the 1880s? I'm away from

A neighbor purchased a diesel Farmall "M" (like the Sunshine kit) in 1948 but that was quite unusual. Allis Chalmers did not indroduce a diesel farm tractor until 1953 or 54. In Maryland, the same

Hi, I have a few of these if you have not yet found one. $6.00, plus shipping if interested. -Andy benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> wrote: Anyone want to get rid of one of

In my copy there is a note at the bottom of page 78 reading, "NOTE - Next page is numbered 99." Gene Green

Lindsay Smith wrote: Yes, in true "meat cars" there was a grid of overhead rails from which meat hooks could hold sides or quarters of animals. But the "peddler" or "route" car was typically

In regard to meat, IIRC, it is aged at 57 degrees F for 30 days o4 57 degress F for 30 days. If meat is not hanged, it is tough (Bully Beef). The mountain men ate the "lights" (liver and kidney)and

I would guess that the late-1940s, post-WW2 era was a transition time between gas and diesel fuel for running larger farm equipment. Little Ford and Farmall "estate" and "quarter-section farm"

--- In STMFC@..., "Jon Miller" <atsf@...> wrote: " As to meat being a perishable item. I seem to remember that beef was aged at a relative high temperature (40 degrees??) so a long

Did any customers unload gasoline from a team track or a siding as they needed it? Did farm equipment run on gasoline? Was tank car utilization greater during the winter when petroleum couldn't be

Tony- I will have to look at that book you made a vailed reference to when I get home this evening. Thanks, Gene Deimling El Dorado Hills, CA sides was were "crimped Someone the "shiplap" had the of

Posted by: > Mr. Laughlin, Is there a resourse for understanding how they shipped Ford Model T and Chevy 490s in auto-boxes out of Detroit/Flint/ Pontiac Michigan area back in the early-1920s? . .

--- In STMFC@..., "benjaminfrank_hom" <b.hom@...> wrote: I've got > more than enough kits lined for this science project, and won't be > needing more at the moment. Thanks for the great

Gene Deimling wrote: Certainly the SP cars of this general design before WW II had shiplap seams (the Bethlehem batch of Class B-50-18 may be an exception), but some post-war SP 40-foot cars had

Yes, for some reason many Bx-48s weren't repainted and restenciled; I have numerous photos from the late Lee Berglund showing these cars with original paint and lettering in the late '60s and early