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Re: Intermountain SP T&NO B-50-26 roof

As has been mentioned earlier, the Intermountain SP T&NO 12 panel offerings used the 12 panel car originally tooled and released as a Great Northern box car. Both GN and SP utilized 8-rung ladders

By Andy Carlson · #98658 ·

Re: Digest Number 6749

Really nice picture. This is the PRR's Phillipsburg Yard (Bel Del). The yard on the left is the Upper Yard. The right yard is the Lower Yard and was built on the basin of the Morris Canal,

By Jedalberg · #98664 ·

Re: Intermountain SP T&NO B-50-26 roof

Richard Hendrickson notes: Having been in the employ of the federal gvt for 32.5 yrs I can certainly agree that the wood running boards were probably ordered long before the AAR proclamation. In

By mike brock <brockm@...> · #98657 ·

Another Steam Era Freight Yard

Gentlemen, I am new to the group and I am very impressed with the knowledge base of the group. Here is a link to a photo set that contains 20-30 photos of the rail yard that tops my interest, its

By Mike Fleming · #98656 ·

Re: Photos of latest Tahoe Model Works truck

Tahoe Model Works now has available for sale an HO scale 5' wheelbase arch bar freight car truck. This truck was built for the Union Tank Line and dates from the mid-1890s. I expect that it was

By brianleppert@att.net · #98655 ·

Re: Intermountain SP T&NO B-50-26 roof

True, but bear in mind that the Bx-38s had been ordered months (or during the war, perhaps even years) earlier, and the cars were in the final stages of completion to the original specs. when the

By Richard Hendrickson · #98654 ·

Alpha cement [WAS Re: Steam era freight yards, take II]

Tom - Nothing speaks "romance" more than taking your date to a cement plant located by a railroad facility. Apparently it was a successful strategy as proven by your 50-year run. I can not count the

By gn999gn · #98653 ·

Re: Alpha cement [WAS Re: Steam era freight yards, take II]

On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:06:34 -0000, pullmanboss wrote Bet you wish you'd kept the 57 Chevy too! Andy Big Bucks, OH

By Andy Harman · #98652 ·

Re: Steam era freight yards, take II

Probably to keep them safe from snow plows! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <Q1xaMacArthur1@...> Reply-To: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:01:56 -0400 To: Tim

By Brian Ehni <behni@...> · #98651 ·

Re: Steam era freight yards, take II

Ed, Could be, remember that the tower is just behind the photographer. Based on the sand on the adjacent track it would appear the near track is for trains headed up the hill to the LV interchange.

By devansprr · #98650 ·

Alpha cement [WAS Re: Steam era freight yards, take II]

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

By pullmanboss <tcmadden@...> · #98649 ·

Re: Steam era freight yards, take II

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

By Q1xaMacArthur1@... · #98648 ·

Fruit Growers Express Articles indexed in the Car Builders CYC post 1943

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

By Bill Welch · #98647 ·

Re: Announcement

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

By Dennis Williams · #98646 ·

New file uploaded to STMFC

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

By STMFC@... · #98645 ·

Alpha cement [WAS Re: Steam era freight yards, take II]

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

By bnpmodeler · #98644 ·

Re: Steam era freight yards, take II

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

By Brian Carlson · #98643 ·

Re: Steam era freight yards, take II

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

By bnpmodeler · #98642 ·

Re: Announcement

"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

By asychis@... · #98641 ·

Georgia & Florida boxcars and LOs

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

By Benjamin Scanlon · #98640 ·

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