"Last I knew you also had to be a size 1X or smaller to wear one." Not so, Mont. Mine are 2Xs. Andy Andy Sperandeo Executive Editor Model Railroader magazine asperandeo@... 262-796-8776, ext.

Jon, With the rivets holding the interior bulkheads in place spaced at every four to six inches on-centers through the bulkhead flange and tank coursing it would be possible to remove a portion

I just assumed this would require exterior rivet removal. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS

Ah, if the movement of grain had only been studied to the depth that coal has been in the model railway press (i.e. ad nauseum)! Finally, we see this very important traffic discussed in an

Does anyone have the specific wording and effective date for the minimum length of cabooses to be used in interchange service in Ohio that effectively banded 4-wheel bobbers cabeese? Was it measured

Tim,   Last I knew you also had to be a size 1X or smaller to wear one.   Mont

Jon, George & Group, My thought was that a large portion of the interior bulkhead would be removed and that this removed portion would would create an opening extending from the lower bulkhead

Not necessarily if the part of the partion removed was at the bottom of the interior bulkheads. Of course leaving the bottom outlets might have cost less in the conversion. George Simmons Dry Prong,

compartment configuration may have simply required removal of part of the interior bulkhead.< Make sense. Early anti-splash cars<G>! All three outlet would have to remain to be used. Jon

Jon, As this was first a conversion from single compartment to three compartment configuration that means that the new interior bulkheads were most likely installed in sections. These had to go

Just curious. Did they take out the bulkheads and fill the rivet holes? Wonder why they would spend that much labor? Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr

Tim O'Connor wrote: "Wasn't a lot of rail shipped grain "double shipped"? -- in other words, wouldn't most of it be shipped first to a huge elevator that had the capacity to store many trainloads of

Clark, You are going to better off heading for an art supply store. Got those in Iowa?[grin] Paul Lyons Laguna Niguel, CA

Thanks Guys! I'll head to our "Hobby Lobby" and see what they have from your lists. Clark Propst

Tim, The C&O listed 10" heap and the N&W/Virginian 30 degree heap and then a cubic capacity different than level. Apparently flood loading put an end to these raised end-styles. Al Kresse

Rich, Carl Shaver is the one who had me use extended-ends and end-extensions in my follow-up C&O Hops and Gons 1937-1965  book. Al

Paul, They have to have them, we even have them in Virginia, although they are not in silos. Chuck Hladik Rutland Railroad Virginia Division Rustburg, VA

Wasn't a lot of rail shipped grain "double shipped"? -- in other words, wouldn't most of it be shipped first to a huge elevator that had the capacity to store many trainloads of grain, and then the

Richard: What I've heard regarding the shipping of flour from Buffalo back to L.A, San Diego, etc was industries were vertically integrated. Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY From:

True, but the Brian in question, Not I, was asking for an undecorated version. I assume he had decals covered. Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY From: STMFC@...