While not related to box shook, the research I have been doing on the Yakima Valley Transportation Co. shows a lot of inbound shipments of "Lug Boxes" from various locations in the Pacific Northwest

Hi Brian, Sorry for the late reply but I'm in Little Rock for three weeks and my WiFi quit the other day, so I'm down to sharing the billeting office computer. Real quick, everything depends on what

Someone at the National Train Show took several images of the new Funaro & Camerlengo HO scale box car. This is a PRR rebuild of the USRA single sheathed cars. Several images

Stan's parts list can also be found at my website www.sunshinekits.com <http://www.sunshinekits.com/> . Look on the Links page. Then click on Resin Parts, Stan's "business" name. Since Stan does not

Folks, As a similar subject: How did bushel baskets come into orchards, farms, and peanut plantations to go out in ventilated box cars? Al Kresse

Folks, As a matter interest: Where did the name "shook" come from relative to wooden shipping box kits? Al Kresse

Bob, I do not have any actual data to answer you questions, but can add a bit of comment regarding question #2... I doubt if there was a requirement for maintaining any open floor space within

Here are a couple of questions about loading box shook, the wood used to make boxes and crates. I'm particularly interested in the answers as they apply to citrus packing crates. 1. How high would

Andrew Martin wrote: My understanding is that Google Books download is restricted to the U.S. because of copyright law in different countries. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

Storey Lindsay wrote: "You can't download the books if you are outside the U.S." Would someone be able to point me to a resource that would allow me to download the book in PDF format? As a "damned

Tonight was Seaboard boxcar night. Going thru the ORER data I came across some interesting things (interesting to me anyway). First there is Seaboard boxcar 20053, 40'-6" boxcar and an 8'x8' IH, and a

Got all three numbers today, via a listing on eBay. Good deal, less than retail. Thanks to two off-line responses from this list. I appreciate the help from the list. SGL La vita e breve, mangiate

Schuyler, The Erie cars are located between the ice cream and the manure on aisle 4. Virgil Young Amarillo, TX

Yes, I have several photos of ex-Mather cars with NISX reporting marks, but all from the '60s. And I think I was aware that North American leased stock cars to the NYC just before the Penn

Ben I agree with you about the difference in quality, but Athearn has already released many newly tooled cars in the R-T-R line that are very high quality -- those you mentioned plus a number of

It's like selling manure and ice cream in the same aisle. The ice cream is the refrigerated stuff. Could we pay attention to the original request? Where can I get the ERIE 3 bay car? SGL

Tim O'Connor wrote: "BTW they're not Genesis, just Ready To Roll. Evidently Athearn is discontinuing Genesis freight cars. Some former Genesis cars are being released as R-T-R." This is unfortunate

Schuyler The ERIE GV 2893's had evenly spaced hatches and 70t ASF A-3 roller bearing trucks. If you change the hatches the Athearn car is a very close match, as Ed says. BTW they're not Genesis,

Richard, I have a scan of NISX 167, a 40ft Mather stock car lettered for North American Car Co. I also have a shot of a 50ft rebuild of a Mather stock car, NISX 3147, painted green with a NYC herald.

Ben, That's not what I said. I said the opposite of what you said I said... (say what?) Scott Pitzer