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John Riddell suggests that I prepare a list of films of interest to the list members. There's no need. The current mailing of Historic Rail (www.HistoricRail.com) lists almost all of them - 36.

By Westerfield <westerfield@...> · #78433 ·

Re: railroad film

Armstrong made 2 rr films in 1930-31: "Oh, Yeah?" and "Danger Lights". Oh, Yeah has him and buddy James Gleason as itinerant brakemen who take jobs on what appears to be the O-WRR&N UP subsidiary. -

By Westerfield <westerfield@...> · #78432 ·

Re: railroad film

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

By sunbeam13n14 · #78430 ·

Re: UP B-50-21 box car

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

By Tim O'Connor · #78428 ·

Re: Automobile Car Shortage

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

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #78427 ·

Fw: SPREAD THE WORD!

--- 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,

By joel norman <mec-bml@...> · #78426 ·

Re: NSP coal hoppers

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

By Ed Hawkins · #78425 ·

Re: Automobile Car Shortage

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

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #78424 ·

Re: NSP coal hoppers

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

By Thomas Baker · #78423 ·

PSCC hopper article in Model Railroad Hobbyist

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

By Dean Payne · #78422 ·

Re: Automobile Car Shortage

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

By water.kresse@... · #78421 ·

Re: Automobile Car Shortage

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

By water.kresse@... · #78420 ·

Re: railroad film

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

By aikenair@... · #78431 ·

Re: railroad film

Al, Was this the film entitled "Danger Lights"? Don **************Inauguration '09: Get complete coverage from the nation's capital.(http://www.aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000027)

By aikenair@... · #78429 ·

Re: railroad film

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

By benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> · #78419 ·

Re: railroad film

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

By Westerfield <westerfield@...> · #78418 ·

Re: railroad film

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

By bill davis <billcheri72@...> · #78417 ·

Re: Automobile Car Shortage

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

By Stokes John · #78416 ·

cable carrying gons

"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

By Schuyler Larrabee · #78415 ·

Re: Automobile Car Shortage

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

By Steve Lucas <stevelucas3@...> · #78414 ·

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