Yes, Jared, I did say that, and yes, we do have Santa Fe stock cars in plastic. And they have not sold well, and the manufacturer who produced them has told me (actually, in a discussion about

Richard, That's basically what you said some years ago when I commented that it would be nice to have Santa Fe stock cars in plastic. Do we have Santa Fe stock cars in plastic? Jared Harper Athens,

John Hile wrote: "I have been doing my research, trying to determine which of the new Rapido meat reefers would be suitable for mid-`52 to mid-'53," Such as where were the various packing houses

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 slaughter, where the stock likely had

Richard Hendrickson wrote: "TVAX 1053 appears in the photo to have been a 10K gal. GATC car built before GATC switched from riveted to welded tanks, so it's certainly a second-hand steam era car,

Bob, the cars in photos 23 and 24 appear to be white-lined and out of service. TVAX 1053, in photo 25, has reporting marks and numbers but the data lettering is insufficient for it to have been

Hello All, I have been doing my research, trying to determine which of the new Rapido meat reefers would be suitable for mid-`52 to mid-'53, and am looking first at the Kingan cars. I'll make some

Bob, The trailer in photo 24 tells me that we are not in the steam era and the ACI's came in the mid to late '60's. The tank cars appear to be built prior to the mid 50's but Richard Hendricks can

The link below is to the Library of Congress photo collection. This group of photos is of the United States Nitrate Plant No. 2 in Colbert, Alabama. Photos 23, 24 and 25 show steam era (?) tank

Nelson Moyer wrote: Excellent group name, Nelson. I've presented the background I'm modeling for SP stock traffic in my blog, for example

The Yahoo Railway Bull Shippers Group is devoted exclusively to the subject of this thread (bedding, etc.), and I've found responses to my posts to be authoritative and helpful. Nelson Moyer

Probably consumed in the great scrap metal recyling campaign of WWII. Who knows how much wonderful stuff that could have been preserved was melted down to make tanks and ships... :-( I wouldn't be

The Tennessee Central boxcar page has been updated showing pix of the pilot models. Still a little air brush weathering to do but no time today. Here's the link to that

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