Actually to be technically correct, the XM32 had several series: XM-32 : CB&Q 30000 - 33827 Built Havelock 1940-1942 XM-32 : CB&Q 34000 - 34171 Built Havelock 1942 XM-32 : CB&Q 34200 - 34599 Built

US Post has a ground shipping method for these items. It gets an "ORMD" Blue sticker that forces ground shipment. Of course being in Hawaii there is no ground Option. Bill Dixon

My friend George Bishop of Accupaint told me he always used Roadway service (RPS?) -- it's handled like LTL. UPS and USPS are much more restricted on what they can ship. You might look at DHL Express

True, it is illegal to ship flammables via air. My local hobby shop of choice will not ship if there is any chance it could go by air. Evan Leisey Bennett, CO

Bill The Testors website cites that they cannot ship solvent-based paints outside the continental US. Do any of the hobbyshops in Honolulu handle military plastic models? There are a number of the

Assume by propelled and non-propelled, you are referring to systems driven by a motor and systems with the compressor driven from the axle, respectively? Evan Leisey Bennett, CO

OK. Hawaii is not a foreign land, however, it might as well be when it comes to shipping Scaleccoat or Floquil. Does anyone else living outside the continental US know of a

Hello everyone, I have restocked my TMW inventory, and I can now offer every truck in the TMW line up in both wheelset/less sideframe pairs, or with code 88 semi-scale wheelsets. There are now 10

STMFC, I beg everyone's pardon for my message, which was intended to be forwarded to my good friend Pat Wider rather than to the discussion group. My apologies for not paying attention to the

Pat, Forwarding to you some STMFC info on USRA hoppers. I figure you'll want to do an article on these at some point. Ed [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Steve Hedlund asked: "Does anyone know where there is information on USRA hoppers that is posted online?" The only online listing of USRA hoppers that I know of is on the pay side of the RPI

As an aside, CN's Toronto (now MacMillan) Yard was opened in 1965--with a two-track reefer icing facility in its receiving yard. Though past the mandate of STMFC, it's interesting to note a large new

-- If something is yet to happen in the future, how can it interest historians? :-) -- Mediums? Prophets? Futurists, perhaps? Dennis People are interested in the future. Historians are

If something is yet to happen in the future, how can it interest historians? :-) Mediums? Prophets? Futurists, perhaps? Dennis

To make it even more fun, the CB&Q/C&S/FW&D applied the same classification to 16,000 box cars built from 1945 to the late 1950's, class XM-32. All of the cars were 40'6" IL and 10'6" IH with 6' doors

Tim O'Connor wrote: I would have said, "ice was still an option." PFE officially ended the "ice age" for refrigeration on all its lines on September 2, 1973, but top icing was still available

In 1954 NP bought 50 mech reefers mostly for frozen food service, and in 1956 MILW (URTX) bought 40 cars from PC&F. Both groups had electric heaters and could maintain -10 to 60 degree temperatures in

I will doing a clinic on the "FGE/WFE/BRE Mechanicals: 1948-1957" at Cocoa Beach in January. FGE conducted trial w/9 systems beginning in 1948 to see which system could keep a load at 0 degrees and

Evan Leisey wrote: The biggest factor keeping ice refrigeration in service was that ice provided a huge capacity to absorb heat in a fairly rapid fashion. That meant that produce could be

To add to Tony's question, Did they ship only carload lots to wholesalers or did they ship lcl to retailers as well? Rich Orr