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Re: travel to Cocoa Beach

Tony, since I mainly use mail order, over the last 20 years I've probably had 500 packages delivered by the post office, and have never had any damage, or losses. I even recently had a package sent

By Tim O'Connor · #87591 ·

Re: travel to Cocoa Beach

Tim O'Connor wrote: "Safe" in the sense that yes, it gets there. But well handled? might as well take my chances with TSA as with the troglodytes (as Al Westerfield memorably said) in the

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #87590 ·

Re: travel to Cocoa Beach

Does the Post Office still do General Delivery? It used to be that you could mail something to yourself and it would be held at the destination Post Office until you came and picked it up. Priority

By Tim O'Connor · #87589 ·

Re: NEWSPRINT

All I can say is I've seen it in practice and in discussion with structural engineers. Paper is heavy stuff and the forces involved with moving it around are significant. SGL Registered

By Schuyler Larrabee · #87588 ·

Re: travel to Cocoa Beach

Tony Thompson says: The easiest way to insure that models will not be tampered with is also more costly...probably. One never knows with airlines. Anyhow...too late this yr...but when I went to the

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #87587 ·

Re: NEWSPRINT

Schuyler: 4" of reinforced concrete is all that was needed for the landing pads on the intermodal trailers at the Southern Pacific ramps. When you consider that some of the trailers grossed out

By Paul <buygone@...> · #87586 ·

Re: travel to Cocoa Beach

Tony, As has been suggested in the past would mailing (or UPS/FedEx) them be better. It's kind of a crap shoot anyway it's tried. UPS/FedEx are usually good about the 5 working days. I have

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #87585 ·

travel to Cocoa Beach

I'd been planning to bring a group of model freight cars to Cocoa but the recent news about airline security seems worrying. Has anyone heard anything specific about searches of carry-on luggage?

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #87584 ·

Re: NEWSPRINT

Several people have written in this thread something on the order of Well, actually I'd be pretty sure that the concrete dock is a little bit special as it has to be quite thick to withstand the

By Schuyler Larrabee · #87583 ·

Re: NEWSPRINT

As a kid in the 60's, I carried papers for the local twice weekly, which had it's own printing press back then. Paperboys were suppose to enter via the back loading dock to get our papers, not the

By Douglas Harding <dharding@...> · #87582 ·

Was Wilson - NRHS

Rich, This is a great site. I will have to look over it to see how to take the dates. It has for the Reading: RDG NS 7/99 7/2000 Does that mean they only used the reporting marks for that

By rdgbuff56 · #87581 ·

New Year

A great NEW YEAR < on the tracks > to Everyone ! Marcelo Lordeiro www.mrcustom.com.br trens@... Tel.: +55 21 2273-2758

By Marcelo Lordeiro <mrcustom@...> · #87580 ·

Happy New Years

Happy New Years to Everyone!!! Dennis Dennis Williams Munhall, Pa. www.resinbuilders4u.com

By Dennis Williams · #87579 ·

Re: NEWSPRINT

Yes. I drove by it about two weeks ago and there were five or six boxcars spotted at the dock. Jim Lancaster

By Jim Lancaster · #87577 ·

Re: Coal: Pre-1900 list?

Is there a freight car list that specializes in post-Civil War to pre-WW1 coal rail operations? Al Kresse

By water.kresse@... · #87575 ·

New Barber Lateral Motion Truck

A Barber Lateral Motion 50-Ton freight car truck is now available in HO scale from Tahoe Model Works. The Barber Lateral Motion Device used steel rollers and a roller seat between the springs and

By brianleppert@att.net · #87574 ·

Coal: Coos Bay and Vancouver Island

Esteemed colleagues: I offer the following, hoping for the indulgence of the prosecutor, judge (no jury) and jailer Mr. Brock. Abdill, in This Was Railroading, pg 186, has a photo of the Beaver Hill

By David Allen <dallen@...> · #87573 ·

Re: NEWSPRINT

Paul: LA Times owned Publishers Paper Co. in Portland OR. This is where their newsprint came from by the trainload. Paul C. Koehler _____ From: STMFC@...

By Paul <buygone@...> · #87572 ·

Re: NEWSPRINT

Rob, If memory serves me correct, it is the Herald Examiner plant. I can check tonight as I have an SP "Spins List" booklet for that area at home from the 80s. Greg Martin

By Greg Martin · #87571 ·

Re: NEWSPRINT

My newspaper, The Hartford Courant, gets paper via the old CV and sometimes at our siding on Amtrak's New Haven-Springfield line. Most of the paper comes via the old CV and is transloaded at

By Dave Owens · #87570 ·

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