While I am sounding off on brake components I have one more question. I have an Intermountain model of a Santa Fe Ga-55 65 foot gondola. It is a ;pretty good model as is but I notice one anomaly.

We really don't know what each plant made, and I suspect a lot of those "implement" shipments are inter-plant moves; either items manufactured in Moline (on the Rock Island) being shipped to Hopkins

Why? Just have the appliances delivered on the team track or house track. Tony Thompson tony@...

Jointly operated a large freight station in St Louis that included the Rock Island. Tim -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Here’s a few more thoughts about predominance of Rock Island cars. At the time in question, MM was building tractors engines and threshing machines in Minneapolis and building other farm

Or use a house track, team/dray track, or some other available "company" track to spot the car and the consignee comes with a truck to unload the car. Can site appliance, furniture, blankets, and

Their were great images of the American Limited SP&S TANK CAR. It prompts me to ask if anyone has any detail photos of the Southern P:acific o-50-13 tank cars? Particularly of the undercarriage and

Or SPOOFED. Once a spammer gets hold of someone's address book, they can make emails appear to come from anywhere. Just like fake caller IDs on robot phone calls. Ain't

Clark Propst wrote: "My original thought was the cars were part of a pool?" That doesn't make sense if these were all plain boxcars. Pool would make sense if they were specially equipped to ensure

My original thought was the cars were part of a pool? Clark Sent from Mail for Windows 10

San Diego Model Railroad Museum Research Library For future consideration, a tip courtesy of Ryan Di Fede. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum has a railroad/model railroad research library that is

Steve Hile asked: “Which RR’s served the plant?” The M&StL and the Milwaukee. Clark Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Part of the Yoakum empire, starting with the SA&AP. Yoakum, Texas, is named for him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Yoakum Ron Merrick

Cool with these cars I guess I need to add an appliance store somewhere on the layout. Scott McDonald

Sold! Couldn't pass up the Frisco Lines logo on a C&EI boxcar! Jerry Michels

And these are refrigerators, too: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/swch/id/167/rec/8 Note the “Unload From This Side” placard. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Jim, Folks, Exactly! The phenomenon is sometimes called “spoofing” (where spammers use someone else’s legit address to send email, especially to list servers). Most of the comments generated

Clark’s data does span 6 months of time. Maybe long enough to spot a trend? Steve Hile

These spammers/hackers -often- "harvest" a real email address (not necessarily by hacking the owner's computer/email) and use that as the "return address" on the email. The real scam is in the

Hi, When looking at the make up of an individual train or cut of cars - we shouldn't pay too much attention to the mix of cars from a particular road. Most of the time the yard clerk assigns cars