Dennis S. wrote: As several writers on livestock traffic have mentioned, and as the AAR Livestock Waybill identifies, either the shipper or the carrier could provide the bedding (shippers were

Which brings up a couple of points: The prevention of disease would be of much greater concern to someone shipping spring calves to the Midwest for "finishing" than to someone shipping stock to

My wife's grandfather was the Section Foreman at Harlowton, MT Yard on the Milwaukee from about 1908 until about 1960. My father-in-law worked summers and school holidays. Apparently considerable

Guy Wilber wrote: Several writers on freight transportation, such as John Droege, mention the need for clean bedding and clean cars, and several railroaders in interviews have said that

Tony Thompson Wrote: <<I don't understand these statements. The minimum resting time was 5 hours, and animals could not be reloaded into dirty cars or with old bedding. If I understand the rules

Tony is probably right about this. My exuberance may have approached irrational. The detective game is pretty hard in that era. The drawings do not have 'Revision Notes' blocks, so it is

An undetermined number of these cars wound up with leftward opening doors, for some unexplainable reason. And I've seen a photo of at least one car that had the improved Youngstown door, with the

And, one car has Z-bracing between the door and the next vertical post, and the other one does not. (!) Ron Merrick <snip> Where did they come from, and

Well, someone put a couple photos of one of these cars preserved at New London, WI in the PHOTOS area a while back: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/photos/album/925508989/pic/list The car at New

Have these cars been discussed here before? I have seen only one other image of these cars, a late 1950's view of 75518. I really like them with their wide doors and fishbelly underframes. Where did

Dick Harley wrote: Dick is right about the UP medallion being drawn inside a circle. I'd forgotten that detail of the medallion layout. I am not as certain as Dick about this, because

cid:image001.jpg@... Greeting to all our friends and train show family. We are having our First Swap meet and train show of this year. If your friends don't get this please pass

On Wed Apr 6, 2011 Isaac Herrera asked about PFE cars and paint schemes, and Tony Thompson posted a reply. I'd like to correct some info about the UP medallions and add some further

The photo scan came from Richard Hendrickson. Interestingly, Ted Culotta chose this car number (19668) for one of his box car red models but lettered it for 1948. Tim O'Connor

Jerry: These were built by Pacific Car & Foundry beginning in January 1957. They had the so-called "Banana Tapper" major ribs with the top rib asymetrical in shape as it was striahg along the

Hi, Can someone give me some information on the builder and construction dates for Fruit Growers Express FHIX 41241-41640? Seems ART may have bought a block of them. Thanks! Jerry Michels

Tim, I have diagrams for A&WP and WofA, but not for Georgia. So I only have photos to go by. Another photo of a Georgia USRA rebuild just came from Arnold Menke. This photo taken ca. 1940 shows GA

I built one of the kits Ted put out. His info is vague on dates, saying the cars were rebuilt in the 1930s in BCR paint followed by the silver/black scheme. Photos provided have BCR cars with reweigh

Tom, Have the review and off the top of my head I think this was the only brass made in NZ (or was it AU). As a plastic kit (or RTR) I should think it would sell more that the IM caboose but

Jon, More likely someday they'll be a resin kit that any other type of kit. Even at that, the underframe would be a "challenege" to say the least. Pecos River did these in brass a long time ago