Two cents coming your way -   I don't know if you are talking about the same movie I remember seeing but there was one made in 1939 about a down-and-out engineer (Armstrong) who had been busted for

Ted Culotta posted a message regarding modeling the UP B-50-19 and B-50-21 from IMWX/RC kits. The -19 requires little or no modifications, but the -21 has welded ends as well as welded underframe, and

Dennis Storzek wrote: Dennis, if you look at the builder photos from H&B in Ed Kaminski's book on Pullman-Standard, you'll see a whole bunch of steel-framed cars built by H&B well before

--- On Sun, 1/18/09, George Melvin <geomel1@...> wrote: From: George Melvin <geomel1@...> Subject: SPREAD THE WORD! To: "Joel Norman" <mec-bml@...> Date: Sunday, January 18,

Tom, The Northern States Power Co. bought 4 hopper cars from AC&F delivered 10-48 under lot 3307. The builder's photo was NSP 4517. The 70-ton triple hopper cars were 38'-6" inside length, and

in that All through the first fifteen years of the twentieth century, AC&F seemed to have a lock on the Soo's freightcar business, while Barney & Smith supplied the bulk of the passenger cars, with a

During the 1950s did the Northern States Power Company have company coal hoppers? If so, of what type? The NSP was big in the Twin Cities, and as a boy I saw coal hoppers in near its plants but never

The CV hopper in the Model Railroad Hobbyist is based on a Bowser model, and the author (Marty McGuirk) says that the thing that the most significant thing that scream "Pennsy" are the tapered

It appears, from reading between the lines in Mr. Lane's article that the driving factor for the all-steel 55-ton hopper cars was that there was an across the country coal car shortage and they would

Folks, Do we know when the fed's started to formally ration steel for ship building, etc. going into WW1?  I would also guess (like gas today) that the price of steel went up on European news

Group, I think the name of the movie is "Danger Lights" and was made in 1931. Don Barnes Aiken, SC **************Inauguration '09: Get complete coverage from the nation's

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Bill Davis asked: "Can you gave a name for the movie?" Read Al's post again - he gave it to you: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020234/ Ben Hom

Bill - The name was "Oh, Yeah!" - Al Westerfield

Hi Al, Can you gave a name for the movie BILL

My understanding is that a number of hopper cars and box cars were build with wood sheathing because of the steel shortage during both World Wars, and many of at least the hoppers had their wood

"I'm sure that the usual railway luck held out, and that the bad journal was on one of the trucks of a car near the middle of the load." Of COURSE it was!! SGL

I have to wonder if a wartime (or pre-war) shortage of steel may have been a factor in reducing automobile car construction at this time, and thus availability of many new automobile box cars. I have

Bet that the carmen had a fun time changing out the offending wheelset! I'm sure that the usual railway luck held out, and that the bad journal was on one of the trucks of a car near the middle of

Al, Be on the lookout for Perils of Pauline #9. Mike Brock Found another great film - Oh, Yeah!, made in 1930 with Robert Armstrong. Lousy film but plenty of freight car action and lots of steam.