Thank you Steve. I had asked a guy who'd work at an elevator for car capy in bushels, but they don't grow wheat around here. I did get a kick out of some replies. It's like we used to say at work

Courtesy of Michael Bishop, here is a link to a 1947 C&NW film. The film features a large amount of steam era freight equipment, although the quality is so-so. Bob Chaparro Hemet,

The general rule that I learned years ago was 2,000 bushels of wheat in a nominal 50-ton boxcar, 1,500 to 1,600 bushels of wheat in a 40-ton car. I don't know about other roads' cars, but CN 40'

There are photos of a number of these cars in both AC&F Kaminski books. Elden Gatwood

Brian, Second the motion, not just for those Chateau Martin wine cars, but also the Norfork Southern 1932 AAR boxcars and the West India Fruit boxcars. Perhaps some reciprocity - they issue Ted

Dear Group, Does anyone make an 8' Superior 5 panel door with rib stiffeners? Thanks in advance, Rich Christie

Wish they would do them in HO! Brian Ehni

Although I'm not sure of its build date, Bobby Pitts did a great model of a bromine car that naturally fits in with his rail whale models. Mike Turner Simpsonville, SC 29681

Protocraft developed artwork for four different CMWX sets for the ¼” scale market. http://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?Categoryid=1 They are also releasing Speedwitch decals in ¼” scale

Al Brown wrote: As Al certainly knows but others may not, the statement applies to LIQUID bromine, not the ordinary gas. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

Looked it up, instead of answering off the top of my head again ... the article's in the 2/01 MRR, p 74; the author is Dick Scott; and the car (DOWX 52312) was built in 1965. I beg the list's

There was an article in Model Railroader some years ago, about scratchbuilding a Dow Chemical bromine car. Bromine is four times as dense as water, so a 50-ton car runs about 2000 gallons. They look

If you really want to do an accurate job of determining the number of cars of coal needed to generate power, you can look at how that is done on my Chemical Engineering 357 class web site at The

Jason, Thanx for the plug ;-) Dave, Yes that was me. I only know of one other person who has done small tank cars. I saw photos of his work at a prototype modelers meet. He did beautiful work.

I imagine there are a number of Google Books entries about the operation of coal-fired boilers and generators froom the steam era. Certainly these would give examples of production in pounds of steam

A bushel is measure of volume, so at 1 US bushel = 1.2445 cubic feet, you can figure it out for any car or any grain. Converting to pounds will depend on the grain. KL

Jason, You may be thinking of Andrew Miller's 4000gal Ethyl tank car at: http://www.steamfreightcars.com/modeling/models/millera/ebax3064main.html - if that URL doesn't work, go to

Clark Propst aked: lines inside, but I know a guy wanting to know the bushels of wheat a car could hold. > > Edward Sutorik replied: 10-6 inside height. This yields 3827 cubic feet. This converts

Ditto. The problem is, almost every car had subtle (or not so subtle) differences. The only "decals" I know of are the dry transfers offered by Cloverhouse. Brian Ehni

A typical boxcar for grain was 40-6 inside length, 9 inside width, and 10-6 inside height. This yields 3827 cubic feet. This converts to 3076 bushels with the car filled. Weight would be about