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Mike, you’re correct that engines need adjustment for altitude. Longer ago than I care to think about, I had a 1972 Datsun 240Z, which I bought in upstate NY. I drove that to Colorado, and lived

I agree, Jack, not the same car, at least, not at the same time. I’ve never seen a stiffener (for lack of a better term) on the inside of a gon end. Schuyler This pair of photos currently in

So, other than when the U-boats were prowling the coast, how common was shipment of gasoline by rail? I doubt not that it happened, but how commonly? And was that just to certain locales that were not

This pair of photos currently in Ted Culotta's ebay sale are not, I think, the same car. TWO Milwaukee Road MILW 84794 41' GS gondola 8x10 photos TWO Milwaukee Road

I was told that all the gasoline that comes into the tank farm (by pipe) in Chico, CA is the same at any given time period and that additives are added as the fuel is loaded into the delivery truck.

Bill, Like those figures which some people see two different objects. Tim Connor responded to me. I said I was going with the dreadnaught end and posted to politely respond to Tim's suggestion.

I think we are confusing the adjustment of engines for altitude with brand adjusting. I know you have to adjust high altitude engines to run differently than one at sea-level. I’m not sure about

On 7/11/2015 12:05 PM, ed_mines@... [STMFC] wrote: All current gas is blended different, CA alone has somewhere around 16 different blends. How does this compare to

I've heard the same thing that modern day brands of gasoline differ only by a handful of additives but years ago at least one of the national brands advertised that travelers could find their gasoline

Sorry but no amount of "wish'in, 'n hoping, 'n pray'in" to quote (badly) the hit song, witchcraft or any other kind of "jue-jue" is going to transform the Dreadnaught ends used to the build the

At least for the time period about 1970 to 1990 for Chevronin south Texas,I can confirm that additives were placed in the gasoline stock after it wasloaded into tanker trucks for local distribution.

Friends, I have Ed Hawkins exhaustive list of PS-1s. Indeed lot 5873 of 500 cars was built for the LV in 6-47. Likely it took several months to do them all. The LV cars were

I have been researching Lehigh Valley boxcars lately, and although the PS-1 was not my primary subject, I do remember seeing that the 6200 series PS-1s were built in June 1947 by Pullman-Standard.

Thanks! That is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. As was mentioned, it is very hard to tell from B&W photos and most of the color photos out there are from ground level, also making

Several people have commented on this, and I can add that I too have heard this directly from more than one guy involved in refining and fuel distribution. "This" being that the gasoline and other

Don, The Smithsonian Institution has the Pullman-Standard builders photo of LV 62000, marked "No. 5539, Lot 5873, 6-11-47." with the annotation on a black band under the photo, "This is the first

My personal memory is that Valley steel box/auto cars were all red, and I have most LV books and can’t remember seeing any with black roofs. I consider my friend Lee Turner to be the real expert.

From the Southern Railway Historical Association’s Archives at the Southern Museum in Kennesaw, GA, The P-S “Carbuilder” ad/magazine of July 1947 introduced the PS-1 box car. There are several

There may be more to this than many of us realize. A late family friend, who was a career US Army Quartermaster Corps. officer, explained it this way to my father and I one day. In Boston, for