Yes, Coke was a byproduct of manufactured gas. Howard Garner

I usually buy my drill bits from Micro-Mark, who advertise them as "high speed steel." Are these good to use in the MiniMate? Any other suggestions for drill bits? Many thanks. Jim Brewer All

wrote: My educated guess is that some of the commodities needed somebody inside the tank to clean it out. They will use steam cleaners or other methods to empty and clean it. Manfred

Was their gas the result of coke production? Something I have always wondered about.. Yes, That was the most common source of coke. The Lowell (Mass.) Gas Works shut down in the late 1970's

Am looking for more information of the cars of the Pure Carbonic company. Here's an image of one such

Try this Richard -   Shell-and-tube heat exchangers, and some large, industrial liquid heaters have their tube bundles in a single pass (steam in the top connection through internal copper U-tubes

From my summers in the steel mill, I don't remember any steel production liquid byproducts, just slag, but coke production had a lot of byproducts. Maybe and educated guess can be made, loads

Thanks, Tony. SGL

--- On Thu, 2/26/09, ed_mines <ed_mines@...> wrote: Any idea where the coke was made? In the days before cross country pipelines, many areas were served by "coal gas" companies, with those huge

Dennis, you're assuming this car was in some sort of oil service, but (as I pointed out in my post) it was stenciled for loading with non- regulatory commodities only and had frangible disk vents

wrote: Everyone seems to be of the opinion that this plate is a cleanout; I have a different take on the situation. I may be the only person on this list who has ever had to enter a tankcar to clean

---Ignore my last post. I see now that it is a strap at the end of the car obscuring the second row of rivets of the conventional end. Sorry. MF In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson

---Note the end of the bottom most car in the photo...it overlaps the sides of the cylinder of the car...and two sizes of rivets. I don't recall ever seeing that before? Mark Feddersen In

To this day I believe that a properly assembled #4 is operationally the best coupler Kadee's ever offered. Centers better than any other, and the spring/metal dowel set up gives a bit of nice slack

Some Red Caboose B&O M-26b boxcars in the red "Time-Saver Service" slogan lettering scheme have been imported, both as ready-to-run boxcars and unassembled kits. This scheme was lettered by B&O car

I guess you can do just about anything if you have a big enough hammer. KL

Nevertheless, that's exactly how it was done, Kurt. I've sometimes thought that they probably un-riveted the top seam, as well, since they would have had to cut new openings for the end domes and

The C&O in the 50s did stretch a lot of 40-ft into 50-ft boxes at their own Raceland shops and then brought back building most of their 70-ton hopper cars in their own shops.  They tried their hands

It is my experience that most drill failures are from mishandling, not poor drills, especially when you are drilling into plastic, wood, or resin. I pick mine up at a local hobby shop and have at

Hello, All Pacific Fast Mail brass locomotives I purchased many years ago were supplied with a plastic coupler box which was KD No.4 compatible. As KD couplers (in those days) were metal, using the