On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:17 AM, Clarence Zink wrote: Also, it looks to me like the one bundle of 3 boards has gotten out of control, as the lower half has fallen off the 'slide'.I don't think this

They look like artillery shells to me. In my brief Navy days I learned that the projectiles often were separate from the powder.

Photo: Poultry In Crates Inside Poultry Car (Undated) A photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148742419 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Taken at Rockingham

Photo: Loading Boxcar With Artillery/Bomb Shells (Circa 1919) Photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86717616 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Anyone know if

Trouble is, as my linguist friend Richard Hendrickson often reminded me, language keeps on changing. It is now so common for people to use “unique” to mean “unusual” that one of these days,

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:17 AM, Clarence Zink wrote: OK, so what is UNDER the boards being unloaded?Bundles of cedar shingles. It struck me as a bit odd that the lumber would be stacked on top of

OK, so what is UNDER the boards being unloaded? The bottom half of the load, from the long sheet of paper above the top of the ladder, is warped, bent, and otherwise not characteristic of cut

Has anyone else noticed the end ladder on the car behind the CPR Dominion car? Similar to the one discussed in another recent thread. Bob Thompson North Saanich, BC

I believe this close-up photo is the same item. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Fred, I agree with you. Tony's pretty quick on the draw when people say "unique" and he's usually completely correct. :-D But not uniquely. ;-)

And comparing the R-40-14 ends to the R-40-25 ends we see the characteristic change in the topmost major rib that occured about 1949 and model companies have mostly ignored (with

Several thousand FWD trucks were built for WW1. Those beds in the gons look similar to what was on the FWD trucks. Here’s a model sitting to the left of a 1926 Mack. 202202_trucks_13 JPEG Image ·

Tony, I love your humor: "...First, it’s not quite unique as there were two of them...". Two among -how many; 38000?- PFE cars. Plus both were significantly different from each other, so yes, both

Dan, here's another one. Don't remeber where it came from, I suppose a book. Fred Jansz

The car with the open door is CP 17728X. It was reweighed, I think, 25 05 38. CP 17728X was one of a series of Dominion boxcars (175000-177885) that appears in the ORERs for the first time in the

is it about different materials - some to which paint sticks; some “not so much”? Rob

I didn't have any specs, but I have added a little piece of styrene rod to represent this type of card holder. On 10/11/2022 4:22 PM, Ed Hawkins wrote: -- Tim

Speaking as a working engineer, the factory mangling things is not as rare as one might wish. MIL-TFD-41 is often not followed. Then again, drawings often ask the nearly impossible, or fail to show

Looks like one of the Reading XA cars. Drew Marshall in South Jersey Modeling the pre-Depression years. Sent from TypeApp On Oct 11, 2022, at 15:01, "Bob Chaparro via groups.io"

Yep, it is a Builders Photo with apparently mangled end grabs. Go figure. -- ------------------- RJ Dial Mendocino, CA