Oh boy. I was going to ask about the doors, only to see whether Soo was commonly lowering the tackboards after 1954. I answered that question by hitting a relatively small number of Soo XM photos

They do help...and weren't there when I first looked back in, um, April. They're exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Craig Zeni Cary NC

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tidewater Associated had east coast facilities (reporting marks TWOX), Oklahoma facilities (mark TIDX) and West Coast facilities (mark AOX, for the Associated part of the

I built an Ambroid combination refrigerator and poultry car for in Feb. of this year. Ambroid instruction sheet said white sides and dark green for Poultry Transit Company. I have just completed a Ye

I could identify any of the Conrail manifests that ran on the Boston & Albany in the 1990's just by the cars on the trains. I'd think that was true of many manifests in the STMFC era. Tim O'Connor

Where would a Tidewater LPG car have been used? Tidewater was an east coast company, yes? Did LPG travel very long distances? I had the impression that LPG was a by-product of refining that was mostly

---In STMFC@..., <brockm@...> wrote : In fact, even some professional model railroaders can identify a train by its consist which is useful since Fraley [ at least ] did not identify a single train

Bill, both placards I mentioned have a large red "Dangerous" across the face with the specific cargo listed in smaller black letters. The adhesive backed sheet contains 6 of each placard and are

Mike I REALLY think this whole issue can be greatly simplified for mostlayouts. Let's assume you use good "switchlist" software to generatetrain switchlists and random car assignments [aka waybills]

-----Original Message----- From: 'Mike Brock' brockm@... Jeff Aley notes:"It was the same WestVaCo, eventually sold to Food MachineryCorp (FMC)."There were, however, two [ at least ] Westvaco

John Swanson posted this on the Railway Bull Shippers Group(https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Railway_Bull_Shippers_Group/info). Does anyone have an answer to the colors question?

Jeff Aley notes: "It was the same WestVaCo, eventually sold to Food Machinery Corp (FMC)." There were, however, two [ at least ] Westvaco companies. As Jeff says, FMC [ a Missouri Corp ] acquired

Allen Montgomery wrote (in part): Small comment: UP pulled many westward PFE empties from trains at North Platte, where PFE had a cleanout facility, and trash inside the cars, as well as remnant

Here at the Wyoming Division Historical Society, I have spent the last three years getting a feel for what the freight trains looked like on the UP. This is a summary of the way our trains look.

Hello Jim and group, There's been quite a thread about our new tank car andsome are keeping in line with the subject and others have gone off in anotherdirection. Jim has asked how to pick our

Richard 3 photos attached showing my Ribbed Sided car. Hope it helps. Paul Doggett UK Sent from Samsung mobile"'Richard White' rhwhite@... [STMFC]" <STMFC@...> wrote:I am

Richard White asked: "I am building a Ribside Cars kit for a Milwaukee Road long rib single door 40' boxcar, the prototypes were built in 1939/40. There are some parts which must be the 'tack boards'

Scott & Mike, It was the same WestVaCo, eventually sold to Food Machinery Corp (FMC). The 1,958 cu-ft LO’s from Wyoming were carrying soda ash and were being

Didn’t Ted offer a mini-kit for this car. Doors and decals? I reworked thedoors on my car, repainted the ends black and whatever else at the time. Goodthing I sold it this spring, or I’d be buying

I have decided to pass on my library ofrailroad books, there are approximately 120 books, as well as ModelRailrod Craftsman years 2002, 3, 4 ,5 and 2006 collected inCraftsman's hard cover binders. If