Bill, Did you try StanRay? Al Kresse

You normally think of locomotive sand as company business handled in company cars. See a little photographic evidence to the contrary on my blog

At some point I believe Stanray became a subsidiary of PepsiCo and at another time a subsidiary of IC Industries. For a few Summers I worked for a subsidiary of Stanray (who interestingly enough had

Folks, The Spring edition of the Keystone Modeler is now on-line. To download the magazine, go to http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/newPRRKeystoneModeler.htm Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Bill Welch wrote: Bill in the early 1960s, SRE Co. became a division of Stanray. Stanray diversified into a LOT of different products. and the SRE Division became a small part. Try Googling

Some years ago I wrote this http://www.pacificng.com/ref/freighttech/TheRoofProblem_By_Randy_Hees.pdf for the SPCRR preservation group... Randy Hees

I just tried to Google "standard railway equipment" to see if there was any history or if they are still in business. One Missouri resource mentioned it as inactive. I remember seeing a SRE builder's

The Arcadiawebsite describes this book as follows: "The Back of theYards neighborhood, located in back of the Union Stockyards and composed ofPackingtown, Town of Lake, and New City, was the

Relevant to the

I seem to recall a few references to a double-board roof with a sandwiched layer of rubber sheeting as well. David Thompson

To Don Valentines' question: That, however, dose not explain the necessity of the extra layer of wood over the metal sheathing in any way that has ever made sense tome. As well as in the

I have done this twice using .010 x .060 Evergreen styrene strip. One was for a Sunshine pattern for his BREX and WFEX truss rod kits and a NYC stock car roof for Speedwitch to replace the roof on the

Hutchins was still showing their "plastic" car roof (in this case plastic likely refereed to bitumen impregnated paper - tar paper) for use between layers of roof boards, so it's impossible to tell

Brian, Several photos of C&I hoppers have "CR" reweigh stencils, which stood for Colver, Pennsylvania, that was home of C&I's shops. Regards, Ed Hawkins

Anyone model this with individual boards? Many photos show these individual boards with and without paint and some of the boards are black. Ed Mines

Anyone see this Arcadia book? " Yards" is the Chicago stock yards. Listed as a railroad book. Ed Mines

I need to reweigh a few C&I hoppers. Does anyone know if the railroad had their own facilities for this and what the code is? Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga, NY

Dennis Storzek wrote: Good summary. But several Cycs from early in the 20th century show a fourth type of roof, with some kind of waterproof membrane sandwiched between the two board roofs,

Some of the statements in the recent discussion about wood roofs on FGE reefers show a not total understanding of the challenges faced by builders of freightcars in the late nineteenth and early

Thanks for sharing Paul Doggett UK