Bruce Griffin wrote: Exactly what I would recommend, Bruce, but I haven't actually done it. It certainly ought to work. Tony Thompson tony@...

Friends, I did a search of this and several lists and could not find an answer, has anyone ever shortened a Kadee running board? I am building a Rail Shop Carbon Black Hopper and want to replicate a

The Thomas Keery Co. business was destructive distillation of hardwood, not coal. Principal products could include methyl alcohol and acetic acid with charcoal as a residual byproduct. Acetone,

Thanks a lot Steve I’ll incorporate the data. Much appreciated!! Clark Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Todd: "E.g., where did all that sugar in NP boxcars come from?" Pretty sure the answer to this is Great Western Sugar's central sugar beet processing plant in Billings, Montana. Chris

Fran Giacoma wrote: Based on what one sees in photos from that era, "overdue" cars are pretty rare. I would recommend against that. Tony Thompson tony@...

Clark I am returning this with ATSF notes. I added the class of the cars and based on my Santa Fe Live List made some changes in the descriptions. The Santa Fe did a lot of car rebuilding as WWII

Unless these were extra special NP box cars, I'm not sure you can infer anything from the fact that a load of sugar arrives inside an NP box car. Basically the sugar plant asks

Mont says: Your jig for making the end bulkheads is interesting. Can you share from what the job is constructed? We all know that assembling styrene components in a styrene jig usually

Base upon the article "ReWeigh Dates on Freight Cars" by Tony Thompson (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_ctrHrDz4wOWM4YzU5MGYtMTdjNC00MmQwLWEyZDgtMjJiMDUzMTZhMmZm/view) I have started to add this

And I have the main Monon 40' flat car casting if anyone needs a base. Chad Boas

I received an email stating a certain car was a PS1 with 7’ door. That’s the type of correction I was hoping for! The more info I add the more chances for mistakes. This is the best place I could

Todd also asked: “It also raises lots of questions about where cars came from and where the loads out were going. E.g., where did all that sugar in NP boxcars come from? I don't suppose the seal

Todd wrote: “I did find one set of questionable initials = SLRX (St Louis Refrigerator Line - beer), which I think should be SRLX (Swift Refrigerator Line - meat).” The data was written with

Doug Harding wrote: “From a Sanborn Map it looks like the warehouse was served by the GN, with the MSTL tracks across the street. The MILW would have been near by.”

Sugar in NP box cars was probably from the Red River Valley of the Dakotas and Minnesota. Howard Garner

Mike, Eldon and all, The info that I have shows the MONON had two designs of composite coke cars. CIL 1019 is a former low side stone gon onto which the composite coke body was lowered and secured.

Bob, Your work is top drawer as always. Your jig for making the end bulkheads is interesting. Can you share from what the job is constructed? We all know that assembling styrene components in a

the undersides of cars catching fire from the friction of brakes was a reality. In 1983 on thecp at the Spiral tunnels We passed a freight train coming down and a high proportion of the cars were

Todd the sugar is interesting. Sugar beets were a common crop in Northern Iowa and Minnesota in 1949, with several sugar beet processing plants in the region. The NP could also have been hauling