Jim Harr wrote: [snip] I've posted five more photos - four of them are hand-held telephoto views of some of the more interesting portions of the PRR Phillipsburg yard, including the Russell plow and

Why are those switch stands placed so far to the left of the turnouts themselves ? A visibility problem ? Ed K. ____________________________________________________________ Groupon.com Official

Gentleman: Thanks to an index in the 1943 Car Builders CYC I am able to identify 3 Fruit Growers Express related articles (in 1928, 1937 and 1943) that appeared in either Railway Age and/or

Al.   I wish the best to you and your wife.  Happy retirement.  I will keep building your kits for  years to come. Again, we at resinbuilders4u want to thank you for your contribution to this fine

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Alpha Cement/AlphaCementValMap_063018_04.jpg

Tom and Group: Tom couldn't have said it better - Alpha Cement is indeed a fascinating place. The silos still exist, and it was used as a grain storage facility for 35 years or more; I am not sure of

hmm, OK. I got to this P'burg photo through the clarks summit messages, so I am not sure how that happened. I thought it odd Clarks Summit had a river next to it :). Thanks for the

Brian and Group: Just to clear up some possible confusion: Mike Del Vecchio posted TWO photos to the ErieLack list; the PRR/Bel-Del Phillipsburg view we're discussing here, and also a view of a

"Westerfield Models will no longer accept orders of any kind. Unless the business is sold we will fill all orders in house to the best of our ability. Because of the immense number of last minute

Hi According to our rolling stock guru on our TT scale modelling forum the Ga & Fla had the following unusual boxcars according to the January 1953 ORER (they had a total of 305 overall, most of

A flanger and a Jordan Spreader; the flanger yellow, the Jordan black. The Russell is well to the left of those two. All were more or less permanently assigned to the Phillipsburg yard. John C.

Tim O'Connor says: Weeeelll, that depends on the definition of the word "is"...uh...I mean "from". If you mean by the end of 1944, you are at least correct that it appears that box cars were built

Westerfield Models will no longer accept orders of any kind. Unless the business is sold we will fill all orders in house to the best of our ability. Because of the immense number of last minute

Tom, Thanks for the post - the white tower near the right edge of your photo was likely just behind the photographer of the photo that started this. Interesting equipment in your photo - a Russel

Thanks Tim, just got home and found an email from Randy asking for help. I was able to identify his website was built using FrontPage, which as you say, is a problem. I have contacted him offline, but

Tim O'Connor wrote: On Veterans Day 1960 I took a series of three shots of the PRR Phillipsburg facilities from across the river just south of Easton. A couple of years ago I assembled them into a

T&NO B-50-25 series 54850-55199 had wide seam doors, but T&NO series 55200-55699 had Superior doors. As everyone here should know, any box car built for a US railroad from 1944 onwards had steel

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P'burg is correct from my track chart from 1963. It shows about the same number of yard tracks (about 12) in the foreground, and it appears that the "bowl" or class yard is behind the

Dave Evans wrote This is the PRR's Phillipsburg, NJ yard on the Bel-Del .... there was a hump yard here, and the hump would be just over and behind the photographers left shoulder....