Jim,    I will throw in my .02, and say over 250 stock cars moved over the Inside Gateway ( north & south combined) in Oct. '47 155 were GN, NP (47) , WP, UP,TNO,SP,DRGW,MILW,CNW also show

Tony Thompson says: "Um, Mike, the rules say (or used to say) that as long as your full name is in your email address, you are okay: and JIm Betz does have his full name there." and, Jim apparently

Guy, It doesn't surprise me that this would be true for 'short haul' such as from a producer to a regional slaughter house. But what about the long haul such as the cattle ranchers in Montana who

Doug Wrote: "By the mid 60's (post STMFC list) most livestock and meat traffic had shifted to trucks." Doug, Trucking beat out rail transportation of beef and pork in 1935 and never looked back.

Mike, We've been around this corner before. My full name is in my email address - there for any one who wants to see it. Normally I post using the email interface. But my member info is clearly

Mike Brock wrote: Um, Mike, the rules say (or used to say) that as long as your full name is in your email address, you are okay: and JIm Betz does have his full name there. Tony Thompson

Jim...who apparently has no last name...writes elequently about posting messages on the STMFC. It's a shame, actually, because it looks like he won't be posting again. I mean, we DO have a rule that

Doug, The difference between the email interface and the online interface is that the messages come from different addresses. I'm assuming you are using the "one email for every posting" setting and

Jim, that doesn't help. I have received some postings you made when you are responding to another post, but not all, and certainly not the original or first post. Need to take this to the

Sometimes a truck could have just one sideframe replaced. So if a photo shows what looks like two different trucks, look at the bolster ends. If they don't match then it's two different trucks. If

Hi again (seems like I just posted on this thread), Just so every one knows ... I will NOT be re-working this model into something 100% prototypically accurate. Nor even to a car that is "mostly

Doug, If it helps at all - these posts were all done "online" rather than by the email interface. - Jim

Thanks Richard, So I'll just put a set of "bettendorfs" under this fictitious SSW car/number built in '47 - and that way the car can be 100% wrong. ;-).

Jim, first for some reason I am not getting your postings, I have learned about them as others have responded and I received those postings. Shades of the problems I have with getting messages sent to

I have many photos of older cars where a truck was changed out (probably off-line) and replaced with a different truck than the original one because that was what the shop had where the replacement

Tim, You missed Omaha and Denver both had major stock slaughter operations and Pueblo had a major regional operation (Nuckolls). Tom VanWormer Monument CO Tim O'Connor wrote:

Tony, I agree, especially about this particular combo under this car ... since the two trucks have significantly different load ratings. - Jim

While the car was not in interchange service, I recall at least one Staten Island Rapid Transit hopper car some 14 years ago operating with a Bettendorf at one end and an archbar at the other. Of

Jim Betz wrote: Pretty common, if you look carefully at photos (but still a minority of all freight cars). But I think a roller bearing with a plain bearing would have been VERY rare. Tony

Hi all, So I have a 40-foot car, CB&T, SSW 40432, that has two different trucks under it. One is an Accurail #203, Andrews U-section. The other is a modern truck with roller bearings and 3 spring