Gene, that may be so, but Kadee's excellent and accurate 50 foot M&StL PS-1 box car sold out in an eyeblink -- I know because I got shorted on that one, and I've never seen one second hand for sale on

Gene I strongly and emphatically disagree. There are quite a few models available now that I would call "high end" merchandise. The Great Unwashed are not buying these models! Example: 5-unit well

Al Kresse: We had a stoker on our coal furnace. Our house was completed in the summer of 1942 so the furnace dated from that time. IIRC the stoker was mounted on the side of and open to the coal bin.

Forgive me for weighing in on this topic so late. Somewhere in the next 100 messages that I have yet to read is probably the same point I will make but expressed in a more lucid way. Anyway . .

If you believe their coal marketing literature, the C&O coal going up to Philly, NYC, Boston, and further into New England typically went by boat and/or barge intercoastal-wise.  Washington/Baltimore

Nobody has mentioned "stokers" for their furnaces.  The 1935 "Stoker Coal, C&O Lines" booklet I was referencing showed home furnaces with a box on the side of of the furnace that automatically feed

Well, the first Arab-Israeli war and the Berlin Airlift come immediately to mind. The US's main involvment was with the latter and I don't think it was really a war in the traditional sense of that

Mike, Sounds like class GR or GRA - composite gons. You can tell the difference as the GRA was slightly longer and the middle panel on the side was longer than the other panels while the GR had

Since Fridays are customarily days with light volume on the STMFC I'll take the opportunity to mention that I was doing a bit of research in the Kratville 4-12-2, Vol 2, book and came across a

All, Please forgive my tardy reply. I was away for several days and came home to find I was more than 300 messages behind on this and another list. I started wading through them yesterday morning.

Ray, The PDF idea is a good one for those books and other publications on which the copyright is expired (is expired the correct term?) but everything published since sometime in the 1970s could not

Virtually all of the material compiled, collected and owned by H. Lansing Vail is in the possession of the NYCSHS. Regrettably the NYCSHS does not have a facility suitable for proper storage,

How much are these CD's? Alan -- -- Alan Palmer http://rrgeekdev.googlepages.com/home

Denny's comment took me back to my childhood in the 1950's and 1960's.  We heated our huge house with  "soft" coal.  There was a large furnace that shared the basement with my model railroad.  I

After looking at thousands of pages and photos of reference I cannot find one shred of evidence that an N&W (or C&O, for that matter) hopper was ever on the New Haven or CV. Am I saying it was

Denny,             I might be doing the same in southern VT this next winter. Coal comes by hopper to a local dealer, who then drops it off in a vintage Mack dump truck. Like being in the

I received another mailing from Sunshine today. It includes The Sun for 2009 (info about Naperville and some of the kits to be released there), and 3 preview flyers for 1923 ARA XM-1 boxcars,

Mont writes- Yes, that's for sure. Mark Vaughn's really interesting clinic at Cocoa Beach on a long-gone Illinois open pit coal operation on the P&E sure got my interest, even more so when I saw

Ah yes, sir, but in what sort of hopper car was it delivered? Anxious minds want to know <g>. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA

I heated my home in northern Vermont in the '80s with hand-bombed anthracite. Very hot, and also relatively clean; and when banked, the fire could last for up to 48 hrs. without touching. Good