Stuart, In WWII, the placard was "INFLAMMABLE" not "FLAMMABLE". Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL I am preparing a clinic for the February 18th SFRH&MS Mini-Meet at the San Bernardino Depot regarding

Here is a photo I took of a U.S. Army car in 1982. The stencil says the car was built in 1941. http://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Hill-AFB-1982/20767779_kHsX6j#1647164023_kVCSK4t Don Strack

You should watch the PBS show on Prohibition. Very interesting. Some breweries continued to operate throughout in the US. Seattle was quite famous for its gentlemanly bootleggers and vast consumption

Thanks, I doubt that I'll modify the doors on these good looking cars. Oh well hopefully the newly purchased Westerfield wil release the NC&StL car again soon. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 3047 Creek

Hi everybody, I want to let you know that the final (?) clinic schedule for Prototype Rails 2012, in Cocoa Beach, FL, is online. It is Rev12 (even though the URL says rev08).

I am preparing a clinic for the February 18th SFRH&MS Mini-Meet at the San Bernardino Depot regarding the Chemical Warfare Service's San Bernardino Bomb Plant and the Rialto Back-Up Ammunition Storage

Tim, The UP began the rebuilding program for the S-40-10 Livestock Dispatch (with an "i" not an "e") in 1947 and continued in 1948. I think that the speed with which these trains (the DLS) got to

Based on several meetings with the president of Iron City brewery in Pittsburgh, back in the '60s, I learned many facilities (IC included) continued to brew, but extracted the alcohol, leaving legal

Denny's quote is a poetic rendition of "See Figure 1".

List, There may be cause for optimism. The TRL site shows three cars - a stock and two different box cars. The painted CP model has a steel door that is clearly narrower than the panels - so a 5'

I've always thought "Rule 1" was BS. I love Denny's quote : ) Clark Propst

Mark When did the UP introduce the roller bearing equipped UP "Despatch" stock cars into service? There are photos of nearly solid trains of these on the LA&SL in this time period, presumably on

Rob, the NYC spec. 486 box cars began to be rebuilt with new roofs ca. 1940, and continued to receive new roofs through ca. 1950; some of the last cars to receive new roofs got diagonal panel, not

That would make a very interesting addition to a model railroad layout, a stock layover area in a large classification yard where foreign cars come in loaded, and leave empty, and home road stock cars

I'm glad the images come in handy for you Don. The cars are spotted at a building that was a brewery. If you scroll up on the larger image you can see the bricks spell out some brewing words. Of

Denny Yeah when it comes to the actual dates I am willing to be pretty approximate with them -- 50's and 60's. The important thing is that a car that is more than 2-3 years old shows evidence of

Hello Frank, As with my previous post, my reply applies to the Union Pacific. Based upon a sample of several hundred livestock shipments as noted on conductor's train lists, 36 hours was very much

I'm wondering what are the most obvious changes required to back date these cars to 1946? Do I need to change the roof? I'm reading plenty of older e-mails in the archives, but they tend to use

Hello all, I have yet to come across any sort of "rule" that governed this, I believe it was more of a convenience issue. On the Union Pacific, I can tell you that the tendency was to reload

Frank, According to Tony's RMC article and his blog, in 1949 it went to 48 months for most cars... which is what I forgot when I posted my origianl message. Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL I assume