This past weekend the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive (PNRA) at Burien, WA processed a donation of a study made by the Great Northern. This study covered perishable carload traffic in 1954 for cars

Somehow I seem to have missed seeing the post with this referenced MKT Sloan Yellow auto car. Can someone please provide a link? Thanks & Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

At the beginning, we did not have a website. Our sales were primarily advertising in magazines. I know the NP reefers were available in 1998 as kits and 1999 as assembled. Keep in mind that my

Bob; Thanks for sharing! PRR G22 in “as-built” pre-Circle Keystone P&L. Nice! Elden Gatwood

I said it was 50 years ago, so my memory is not the greatest. But, now that I think about it, I believe the peanut harvest was a two-step process. First the farmer would plow up the peanuts, which

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 29172 A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2778 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Part of series

An authenthic and accurate SP train order signal that can be made to operate! Showcase Miniatures is ‘this close’ to doing one in HO scale. Modelers, especially SP, need to show interest in

I got mine from Amazon and got free shipping. Francis A. Pehowic, Jr.

I agree with you, Nelson. The banding I recall from my lumber yard experience was black and about ¾” wide. If you unwrap paper wrapped lumber bunks, you will find that banding inside holding things

I use black chart tape for strapping. The brand is Chartpak Graphic Tape, and it comes in 1/64 in., 1/32 in., 3/64 in., which are the sizes most useful in HO scale. Wider tape is available for larger

Stainless steel is called "stainless" for a reason! It doesn't hold paint well. If you give it some "tooth" by rubbing with Scotchbrite first it helps. The additional problem with wire is that it

I lived outside of Enterprise, AL for a while in the early 1970's. Although not the 1955 timeframe we are talking about here, this is what I remember. There were peanut fields all around us.

Thanks Bruce. I enjoy eating roasted peanuts, but know very little about the process of getting them to my table. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

From my experience working in a lumber yard many years ago the steel banding used to secure is steeljust not stainless steel. Stainless is much more expensive than standard steel and we just bundled

The Amarillo RR Museum website was updated on August 7, 2000 and promotes the NP 1949 reefer as their newest car. https://web.archive.org/web/20001018121110/http://amarillorailmuseum.com/ Paul

Doug, Raw, unshelled peanuts are best stored in cool, dry place. They keep longer in the refrigerator and even longer in the freezer than at room temperature.

Two questions here: Where did you find/where can I purchase flat stainless steel wire? When was this first used for securing wood and other loads? Ray Hutchison Green Bay WI

Allen, Back in the early 1980s when I first came to Virginia I made some jaunts to Suffolk, one of Virginia's main peanut processing centers. The buildings I remember were mostly large early 20th

Of the boxcar / covered hopper question, of the 1955 era, I will side with Doug on boxcars. All AFE's for my researched railroad prior to, I will say the 1960s, had the justifications for covered

I can’t speak from experience with stainless, but on the Youtube “Nightshift” channel, I saw a recommendation for Mr. Metal Primer. I bought a bottle but haven’t done much with it yet. Rob