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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Erie Gondola with Slope Sheets

Group; These are two of my favorites: tapping the salamander at USS’s Carrie Furnace #4, 1941. There’s the same Erie class gon back there under the tap floor of the blast furnace, if I

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD · #180333 ·

Re: Charging Ladles on flat cars

Elden, Your last sentence implies that the ladles are a "consumable" that gets replaced fairly often ... ? - Jim

By Jim Betz · #180332 ·

Re: Photo: Eight Boxcars Of Pork And Beans (1960)

I have always thought that if there is anything to "truth in advertising" they should have been called "Fat and Beans" - never was enough meat in them to justify the "Pork" label. I suspect that all

By Jim Betz · #180331 ·

Re: Photo: Eight Boxcars Of Pork And Beans (1960)

Amen Bro-- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

By O Fenton Wells · #180330 ·

Re: Photo: Eight Boxcars Of Pork And Beans (1960)

That is a lot of music. Hubert Mask On Dec 22, 2020, at 1:58 PM, Bob Chaparro via groups.io <chiefbobbb@...> wrote:

By hubert mask · #180329 ·

Charging Ladles on flat cars

http://www.ejearchive.com/index.php?/albums/official-loads/content/co-loads-321/lightbox/ Group; I went back into my photos, and yes, these are charging ladles. From their size, they are for

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD · #180328 ·

Photo: Eight Boxcars Of Pork And Beans (1960)

Photo: Eight Boxcars Of Pork And Beans (1960) A photo from the Norfolk Southern Corporation: https://tinyurl.com/yabb4uqs Click on the photo to enlarge it. Description" "...eight boxcars were

By Bob Chaparro · #180327 ·

Re: Erie Gondola with Slope Sheets

Garth, Despite the pesky pipe, I read the number as Erie 37511, as documented in Steve's diagram and line 46, page 174 of the Jan 53 ORER. It's listed as an HT; Hopper, 4 hopper Cross Dump, All

By John Barry · #180326 ·

Re: UTLX frameless tank car - how long in revenue service?

Tim… My wife and I have talked to the Director and Curator of the California State Railroad Museum about eventually moving it to that museum… Jack Burgess

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #180325 ·

Re: UTLX frameless tank car - how long in revenue service?

Hello Tim, I know that great video. And I second your words! Greetings Johannes Modeling the early post-war years up to about 1953 Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2020 um 17:38 Uhr Von: "Tim

By vapeurchapelon · #180324 ·

Re: Erie Gondola with Slope Sheets

Here is the diagram sheet for anyone interested. Steve Hile Here is the diagram sheet for anyone who is interested. Steve Hile

By Steve and Barb Hile · #180323 ·

Re: UTLX frameless tank car - how long in revenue service?

And go to Youtube to watch Jack's AMAZING video on the inclines and their operations, with photos and even films of the trains and cars going up and down the inclines on

By Tim O'Connor · #180322 ·

Re: Erie Gondola with Slope Sheets

The December 1940 Model Railroader featured plans and a builder image of the original version of the Erie 70-ton coal gons. I think the sloped sheets and hopper discharge doors were a late 1930s

By Eric Hansmann · #180321 ·

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Tank heads on depressed center flat on EJE

Kiesel trucks plus the air reservoir On 12/22/2020 10:24 AM, Gatwood, Elden J SAD wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor · #180320 ·

Re: Tank heads on depressed center flat on EJE

yep some had Buckeyes On 12/22/2020 10:35 AM, Gatwood, Elden J SAD wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor · #180319 ·

Re: Tank heads on depressed center flat on EJE

How about bulkheads for submarine construction? General Dynamics in New London CT. Any other sub builders out there? On 12/22/2020 11:04 AM,

By Tim O'Connor · #180318 ·

Re: Tank heads on depressed center flat on EJE

About the circular steel sheets -- Those could be cut sheets going to a head shop. (This was forty or fifty years before the term 'head shop' took on a more popular meaning.) Heads are formed by

By mopacfirst · #180317 ·

Re: Tank heads on depressed center flat on EJE

Tim, Olfa makes a nice circle cutter. Amazon.com : OLFA Rotary Circle Cutter : Office Products Mike Settle

By Mike Settle · #180316 ·

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Tank heads on depressed center flat on EJE

Andy, all; Carmers were changed out when they broke or wore out (they did not have a real bearing). Given the beating they got in service, it has always surprised me when I see them in late

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD · #180315 ·

Re: Tank heads on depressed center flat on EJE

Thanks, Brian! I have to go from memory here, but I think this is the PRR’s 3F-F1 “Kiesel” truck found on the first group of F29. The later group had Buckeyes, for sure. Elden

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD · #180314 ·

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