Tim O'Connor writes: I can't cite numbers (and am not interested enough to do any research on this subject), but there are rice elevators all over the place in the Sacramento valley, most have rail

Dave Nelson writes, regarding rice traffic from Calif.: Well, Dave, it seems to me that the facts you cite are revealing and your speculations right on target. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon

I know these cabeese are "War Babies" from the NKP and they were built from surplus 10000 series boxcars. Is there a "high quality" kit that is "dead on" or even close to the NKP 10000 series box

Dave Nelson wrote No, but SSW would. Together, Arkansas and Lousiana produced 3x as much rice as California, and the markets are much further away than they are in the Sacramento River valley where

Andy, Gene, et alii Also TSC #3 (1931 CBC reprints). I THOUGHT the MRR article was sometime around the late 1950's (Paul Larson's Golden Age). I am glad I painted my [extensively rebuilt] ScaleCraft

I have been away and am just now catching up on e-mail. As I understand it the answer to Mr. Switzer's question is that hot bearing detectors could not reliably do their job on roller bearings in

Hmmm... could be an outlet for the WestRail ART kit I never started (I was afraid to tackle the riveted belt rail, and it was based on an Athearn body...) Scott Pitzer Ian Clasper wrote: Someone has

Hey Tim Someone has already bid the asking price and there is 5 days to go !!!! You better start digging in that kit closet for those westkits !! Ian

This is from memory and with me not to be trusted but thought CA was the largest rice producing state for quite some time. Maybe not in the 50's though. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped

Richard Hendrickson writes Richard, I mostly agree with you that railroads were slow to utilize high capacity covered hoppers for grain service -- a major reason being that until the landmark "Big

Regarding SP covered hoppers, Shawn Beckert writes: Well, I can't say that I agree. The 1955 and 1959 SSW orders were doubtless intended for and were largely used to move SSW traffic. While it has

Mr. Hendrickson wrote: I don't need to be clubbed by Tony again, thank you. A look at Lee Gautreaux's website reveals this info: 3-Bay Covered Hoppers --------------------- SSW 76075-76149

Shawn Beckert writes: Your facts are all messed up, but I'll let Thompson straighten you out, since he can do it off the top of his head (but he's on a weekend trip and won't be contributing to the

Mr. Hendrickson snipes (sniping breaking out like a heat rash in August today) I would define it as "after", which is to say, chronologically later, than the official end of the war in August

List, I'm looking at a Sanborn Map of Woodland, California dated November, 1943. The subject of interest is the Woodland Rice Company located on the Southern Pacific. Quite a large facility with a

Don't kids still call them "Choo-choos?" Tim Gilbert

Tim O'Connor huffs (huffiness being unusually prevalent on the list today): If you'd been paying closer attention, Tim, you'd have noticed what I wrote in an earlier message that the number of

Ian Clasper writes: Nightmares, Ian, nightmares. As a part-time business, Westrail was a victim of its own success. Sandra and I both had full time careers at that time and orders for kits piled up