The Santa Fe's Coast Lines had a weed spray train with a retired baggage car as a spray car and a string of Tk-K class tank cars assigned to, and equipped for, weed chemical service; I have photos

Dennis S. wrote: I've never heard of this either. Oiling for lubrication at sharp curves, of course, was done in the steam era and ever since. SP designed and built its own weed spraying

Hi Bruce and list, In may railroad experience the coating on rails to prevent brine corrosion was a asphalt/tar like substance, about 1/16" thick that dried to a grey colored, hard coating. I dealt

I was always under the impression that railroads oiled track joints for a twofold purpose; reducing mechanical wear, and ensuring that the parts would pull up tight when the track gang the joints

Dennis S. wrote: Wrought iron did continue to be used as small parts in car bodies, and in truss rods, for some time after steel replaced iron in virtually all large-scale applications. When

The Fairmont Railway Motors INC. made a "W61 Oil Sprayer" that could be towed behind a speeder. Consisted of a tank, pump with small gasoline motor and a couple of hoses with wands/nozzles on the end.

Yeah, I've always considered the center sills and draft sills (back in those days a separate sub sill from the bolster outward), the side sills as part of the body framing, and the intermediate sills

In my response I considered the sills as part of the body structure The underframe being the bolsters and the needle beam. I'm in 100% agreement with you on the break in dates of steel. Once steel is

Tim- Sorry, I was thinking about the topic from the perspective of a manufacturer or importer, not as an informed Model Railroader. Sad as it is, sales do not follow the prototype. People don't buy

Not to mention "gondola-fied" flat cars, that were the ancestors of gondolas and remained a style of revenue freight car until past the STMFC era. I think Tichy makes the only non-resin model out

O. F. Jordan Company made a self-propelled oil spray car that was used by several railroads, notably the Illinois Central. It looked like a large enclosed speeder and towed one or two tank trailers

Hardly, when you consider the high ratio of gons to other freight cars in the pool...

GUYZ,            The Boston & Albany did this on the commuter line to riverside. Basically a box on a flat, and a motor and spray arms. What they put on the row was thick, black, and nasty

Bruce Smith wrote: Explains why when they undercut the mainline through Altoona a while back for double-stacks, the soil was not permitted to be removed from Conrail property. It was classified as

Iron or steel? Hardly. Look at the end of the draft sill where it shows next to the coupler; you can see the annual rings of the wood! http://www.shorpy.com/node/8252?size=_original Since draft

The needlebeam support is wood whereas everything in the under-frame by this time was iron or steel, hence painting it a different color made some sense. It was very common on 19th century cars to

Though I haven't done a statistically rigorous sample, I have about the same impression from my own freight car photo collection (which is considerably larger than Greg's). Bear in mind that any

I said: the Bob Witt replied: share? Bob, PRR #497700, page 422, Pennsy Power 3. The caption notes that the PRR "was one of the few railroads that did it [spay oil] mechanically." Regards Bruce

Bruce Smith wrote: the Bruce, I don't believe I have ever seen an "oil spray car". Weed sprayers, but not oil sprayers; does any one have a photo to share? Regards, Bob Witt

Bruce Smith wrote: Thanks, Bruce. That is consistent with my general impression, so I'll continue to do only an occasional off-line reweigh symbol <g>. I use a lotta Pennsy symbols for