Dan Holbrook wrote: Rereading this SCO 45 text appears only to place SFRD cars in the same category as Fruit Growers, PFE, MDT and other privately-owned but railroad controlled refrigerator

John King wrote: I don't know that much about SFRDD practices, but they sure didn't pool voluntarily with PFE (nor was the converse true). Those managers didn't have any CONTROL, but eastern

How much control did the managers of privately owned railroad controlled refrigerator cars have over where their cars were loaded? Did SFRD pool cars with other refrigerator lines during off peak

I don't know for sure, Cyril, but I'd assume it was in sacks for (relative) ease of handling. Richard Hendrickson

From what I can tell, the salt to the FGE re-icing platform at Clifton Forge (C&O Rwy) to a track level shed which had an elevator for lifting bags up to the high-deck. Al Kresse

How big are HO scale rivets? .005"? .007"? And how tall? .002"? These are teeny tiny to an old geezer like me and from a few feet away I wonder how noticeable their absence would be. Better to

Do you know if the salt was shipped in bulk or in sacks? Cyril Durrenberger

Richard, Would you also please sent me a copy of the scan. The model is done, but I would like to see if it is right. I used a photo from Charlie Slater of a Fe 23, supposedly the same B end. Paul

Bill, I did not find one when I asked the list earlier in the year. If one surfaces, please share it with me. Thanks, Paul Lyons

For those of you on the list participating in the this cooperative 2009 project from The Bash at the Beach and are unaware of it, note that there is active and productive dialogue going on on the

This is actually the B end of an Fe-21 single door car, but the B ends on Fe-21, Fe-22, and Fe23 classes were all the same, as all three were rebuilt from Fe-S class wood sheathed cars. Richard

Bill, I'm sending you a scan off-list. Richard Hendrickson

Al of the photos that I have found of the Santa Fe FE-22 boxcars feature the end with the end doors. Does anyone know of a photo showing the "B" end? Thanks in advance. Bill Pardie

Ed - I have the "disadvantage" of being one of the young guys. Missing rivets are definitely visible! Archer rivet decals make rivet lines a breeze. Ed (the other one).

They are all meeting in my attic and waiting to be picked up by a spaceship.

How big are HO scale rivets? .005"? .007"? And how tall? .002"? These are teeny tiny to an old geezer like me and from a few feet away I wonder how noticeable their absence would be. Better to

Barry Bennett wrote: T&NO was not a major part of PFE's operation, compared to the far west, so whether locally-needed salt may have been obtained from Avery Island and similar sources, I

Larry sent me a large number of freight car blueprints on the same basis –that I was to use them in any manner I saw fit and eventually contribute them to CSRM. Like Denny, I never quite understood

I won't speak for PFE (perhaps Tony Thompson will) but Tom Madden is correct, citing John Dobyne's Santa Fe box car book, that salt for Santa Fe ice docks came from Hutchison and Lyons, KS and was

I did not know Larry Jackman, although I did meet him briefly one time. He could be abrasive at times in his posts, but his experiences as a real life on-the-ground railroad operations employee