Dave Nelson wrote: The seller is thinking like a banker or an airline. Lotsa money to be made on sideline charges that don't rise to visibility easily. Tony Thompson Editor,

Dennis Storzek wrote: It changed names from Milwaukee Coke and Gas Co. to Milwaukee Solvay Coke in 1942, long after both Solvay and Semet-Solvay had been sold to Allied Chemical. Since this

Dave, Sometimes you get stuff on eBay for a good price. Sometimes you get taken. In my case, I was burned twice by a vendor with whom I had a long and otherwise good relationship. That's why I logged

Not meaning to get too far off course here. what the heck is going on w/ freight shipment prices from eBay sellers of resin kits? There's a Speedwitch kit on eBay right now. guy wants $13.20 to ship

It appears that at one time it was the Milwaukee Solvay Coke Co. I can remember seeing them push red hot coke out of the battery. Here is more info: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr058.htm The

Dennis Storzek wrote: Such furnaces required use of slag to control impurities in many cases, but coke is an ideal fuel for most. You're making the common mistake of confusing Solvay

Mark Morgan wrote: How many years ago, Mark? Things changed greatly from, say, the early 1950s to the early 1960s as far as cargoes in covered hoppers. Tony Thompson Editor,

Dennis Storzek wrote: I don't know what brand of material was used, but SP wood cabooses had a canvas covering over the wood, and were mopped with car cement. I know of no SP freight or

"Mulehide" was treated canvas, available in sheets wide enough to do the entire width of a car, as far as I know (their ad in the Car Builder's Cyclopedias only shows a roll on the lower deck of a

Thanks you Gene, I look forward to seeing the index. I have all the RPC's and I am sure I will notice a car I overlooked, Pat Duffin

I agree, Jim. Just pointing out that hauling coal to the steel mill in Duluth wasn't the traffic that brought these cars that far west. However, I wonder about coal, or coke, to smaller operations.

Response was greater than anticipated. Excel, to no one's surprise, was the most requested format. No problem. Can do. Patience, please. I'm going from ASCII text in DOS 6.x to . . . Yes, that's

There are some that want me to pay $32 to $34 for shipping to the UK. I pass on them. Barry Bennett Coventry, England.

Ed and all, For many years on passenger cars as well as cabeese the roofs were covered with canvas which was itself then coated with an asphaltum or tar like material. I've also seen mulehide

Here you go Chris, this is the MR article for weathering covered hoppers Fenton -- Fenton Wells 3047 Creek Run Sanford NC 27332 919-499-5545 srrfan1401@... [Non-text portions of this message

IIRC Missouri Pacific that I model specified "mule hide" whatever that was. Especially on brass cabooses, I stipple on black acrylic straight out of the tube for some texture. Jerry Glow

Elden is correct. I work at a steel mill and years ago received alloys and additives by rail. Those containers in gons were not liked. The bno had hoppers with colored(orange) ends for ferro

Dennis, I think your general observations are right on, and I offer no argument against them. I am wondering if these very off-line cars, might not contain additives such as nickel or other ores or

Ed, Stock car roofs did not have to be water-tight, so no, they would not usually have been covered with tar paper. Darkly weathered boards were due to soot and cinders from

Chris, What hoppers are you working on? Most covered hoppers, especially the 37' sizes built by AC&F or Pullman, were used mostly in cement service. It wasn't until the advent of the 47' Pullman