Cheap water transport seems to have really paid off for coal. Marquette, MI had a large lakefront coal dock (a park today) to supply coal to the iron mines and coal dealers. Fuel oil and gasoline

Paolo, yes and yes, and yes to Alan's comment about metallurgical coal. In Duluth, MN there was the municipal steam heating works for the city. It only converted to natural gas in the last decade I

Bill, I have 7 sets of Champ HD-51 so I could sell you one or two sets. My son made a huge order just before Champ quit and we tried to order the "unusual" sets that you didn't see very often. I have

Garth and All, The Lonestar Cement Company was at the end of the Lonestar Branch of the N&W; the branch was/is off the Shenandoah Division, just north of Roanoke, VA. It was/is a significant

I think soda ash (sodium carbonate) was produced by Solvay in WestVirginia, although I don't know if the N&W got any of that traffic. But sodaash can be carried in covered hoppers -- unlike caustic

Yes, see nGineering's website: http://www.ngineering.com/accessories.htm . I've used these circuits for lighting caboose markers. Bill Baker

Hi Jim, I don't have the STMFC post handy but I'm pretty sure you're referring to Car Service Rule 411, which required Allegheny-area cars (my term) be returned home as soon as possible. John

Robert, Look in the FILES folder for a sub-folder about "Flicker Free". If you can't find anything contact me off list and I'll send you a description/circuit diagram. it is designed specifically

Erie did something similar with their iron ore business out of Cleveland. Photos show strings of off road hoppers (all from the same road), which I would assume were leased during the slow coal

How are you going to do the green lenses for the front and sides? Tomar already deis the definitive Adlake marker lamp, based on a micro bulb, that gives the proper lens colors. To bad there is no way

Ed Mines wrote “I think off road hoppers used for coal would be returned to theirowners in the summer months rather than pay the car owners demurrage or maybejust to equal out demurrage payments.”

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Jim, Yes, mostly cement, though I don't know where any cement plants were on the N&W. That said, the N&W territory in Virginia and West Virginia is rich in karst limestone, and there

[After having first checked that caboose topics are in scope], I have aquestion: given the very small LEDs available today (saw some red ones at 1mm x.3mm x .6mm), is there a convenient circuit folks

Do not forget Met. Coal for coke production. Allen Rueter

Al, what was the market for the westbound C&O and N&W coal? Home heating and power generation in the Midwest? Paolo

For a Midwest prospective on coal traffic, check out Illinois mineral industry in 1940 ; Historical summary, 1919-1939 : Voskuil, Walter Henry, 1892- : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Recently there have been a number of emails on the Earlyrail site related to building HO scale models of the Union Tank Line (UTL) frameless tank car using models of a similar narrow gauge car. It

Wow, thanks to all who commented on this topic. Ed Mines

Cement. Jim Brewer Glenwood, MD