Mike Brock wrote: Cute story, Mike, but AFAIK the "Serves . . . Well" slogan superseded, not preceded, the "Serves" slogan. There is a group in the Southwest, less than enamored of the Katy,

Richard Hendrickson says: Granted, there was a secondary line that ventured some Well, I'll grant you that the Q should not be considered a "western" RR. But before that, if we are going to describe

For those interested, I should point out the car is in one of the famous ore trains often photographed in the late 50's carrying ore from Erie Pa. to the LV interchange at Mount Carmel Pa. It can't be

MIke: I will take you up on that in a few months, Page 46 in Morning Sun's Pennsy Steam years Volume 3. If you don't have access to that book locally, I will send you a scan off list tomorrow for

All Thanks to Ed and Richard for their insight, I should have explained better that I am modelling in N scale and have a Fine N Scale kit of a wood express reefer. Ed's answer seems to cover that

Don't know seller. Price is average for this edition. Dave Nelson ======================= 2. 1946 Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice: Definitions and Typical Illustrations of Railroad

I realize that petroleum distillate could be nearly anything other than an otherwise named mixture like gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, or lubricating oil, but what would the stuff called "distillate"

On Jul 6, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Mike Brock wrote that the CB&Q was a... "western" RR [ not "west coaster", mind you ]. As the French say, it is to laugh. The Q's major western terminal was Denver.

Doug Harding writes: The year is 1954, still lots of coal and distillate. But no hopper cars, all coal is in gons I don't, of course, know what of these were Q cars, but in '49 the Q had 9,035 gons

All this talk about hopper cars reminds me of a set of waybills that may be of interest. A friend had access the waybills for 1954 for the town of Watertown MN, on the Minnesota Western. I uploaded an

Mike,           Very eloquent description of the Q and western  roads. This where the PRR folks have the most fun with coal moves. The Pennsy interchanged with just about every RR; and

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Watertown MN 1954 Waybills.xls Uploaded by :

FWIW, on page 52 of Gene Deimling's "Southern Pacific Steam Switchers of the Pacific Lines" shows 0-6-0 1293 switching DT&I 1437, an open top hopper, in Tracy, CA in 1948. Rod

Richard Hendrickson notes: Hmmm. OK. It is interesting that we've heard a great deal from the...uh..."east coasters"....and some mild..."...complainth too much..." from the...uh...west coasters.

Excellent remarks from Mr. Gatwood and Mr. Thompson. I have seen ferromoly in small barrels@ 100# and in bulk sacks on pallets. Ferro manganese is usually hauled by truck or rail. I have seen twin

Amen! I grew up in the east, near Philadelphia, and the Reading was the closest road. We had a retail coal dealer in town who recieved a carload of coal on a regular basis (our next door neighbor was

Elden - You need to specify a scale when you talk about AAR Alternate Standard offset side double hoppers! We are swimming in them in "O" scale! PSC has imported several brass models of these AAR

As a reminder, I'm not sorry to say, the initial subject was coal cars -- both hops and gons.  I've learned a lot!  Thanks guys.  Now I have to re-focus on automobile box cars equipped with Evans

Gatwood, Elden wrote: Elden, the reason for ferroalloys is to make alloy additions to the molten steel easy. Varying melting points, densities, and other issues mean that you don't want to add