In message 55767 in the archives, a loader is described that tilts the car so it can be pretty much filled with coal. I seem to recall that there may be a picture in the files/photo section as well

Many of the CGW black painted SS box cars were designated for Hide service only. Phil Marcus

There are still a few of these ex retail coal sheds around in Minnesota, although not currently being used for coal. In the past two years I have located, photographed and measured former retail coal

be town long, the be a were I have read of these boxcar coal shipments which were mostly due to avoid the coal freezing in the open hoppers, which made them very hard to unload. Just how much coal

There was a GN Historical Society Reference sheet published on fairly typical of their appearance. Robert I'm modeling several feed mills and elevators on my 1954 Mopac layout and have been looking

Group, can anyone recommend a source of HO scale decals for these MILW 46-ft flatcars? I have Richard's article from the old Prototype Modeler (Nov/Dec 1983 issue) and he used Walthers decals, long

The CGW used older single sheath cars. They painted them black and stenciled them for sand service. Clark Propst

Thanks for the reply Robert. One of the coal yards was Independent Ice & Fuel and a photo probably from the 1920's can be found here http://www.yakimamemory.org/u?/memory,9549 The unloading track

were order the The first covered hoppers on the GN were five cars built by General American to the 1958 cu. ft., 70 ton design. According to the car diagram, these cars had wood runningboards, which

and of Very common, at least in my chosen modeling era and location. I will be modeling a GN branchline in ND circa 1949, and almost every small town had a "coal shed" sitting next to the grain

Hi All, It is my understanding that the earliest covered hoppers were short versions of what we think of as "cement hoppers" and that they were used in both sand and cement service. The C&O may

So I've been doing research on car movements on the Yakima Valley Transportation Co. in Washington State. The largest inbound shipments on the YVT was coal to about half a dozen coal retailers in

I guess photos don't work for some folks, sorry! Check the website at _www.bessemerhobby.com_ (http://www.bessemerhobby.com) There are photos of the offset models. Bill **************Planning

Chuck; I really appreciate you getting these points out there. There seems to be a trend in the hobby of wanting to fit a lot of freight car traffic into several theories that seem, at times, to

Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: It was the same throughout the northeast. If you take a look at sand storage facilities they are generally an open sheds, next to the actual towers.

Where are those photos? Elden Gatwood ________________________________ From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of BESSEMERLAKEERIE@... Sent: Sunday, April 06,

The PRR also had specially-equipped box cars (X29s) that they used to distribute locomotive sand to facilities all over the system. Elden Gatwood ________________________________ From:

The HE&WT ( later the T&NO ) used open gondolas made by adding short sides to flat cars to haul sand for locomotives. They even captured a couple of PRR cars wood sided gondolas that they used for

I can remember seeing Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines freights heading north through my home town of Sewell, NJ, in the early 1950s, with wisps of sand blowing off of open gondolas full of the

It's very possible that MP hoppers may have run over Sherman Hill on the UP in the early 50's because Geneva Steel also used 20% Arkansas Coal between 1956 and 1966. It's possible that it may have