Tony- I will have to look at that book you made a vailed reference to when I get home this evening. Thanks, Gene Deimling El Dorado Hills, CA sides was were "crimped Someone the "shiplap" had the of

Posted by: > Mr. Laughlin, Is there a resourse for understanding how they shipped Ford Model T and Chevy 490s in auto-boxes out of Detroit/Flint/ Pontiac Michigan area back in the early-1920s? . .

--- In STMFC@..., "benjaminfrank_hom" <b.hom@...> wrote: I've got > more than enough kits lined for this science project, and won't be > needing more at the moment. Thanks for the great

Gene Deimling wrote: Certainly the SP cars of this general design before WW II had shiplap seams (the Bethlehem batch of Class B-50-18 may be an exception), but some post-war SP 40-foot cars had

Yes, for some reason many Bx-48s weren't repainted and restenciled; I have numerous photos from the late Lee Berglund showing these cars with original paint and lettering in the late '60s and early

Thanks Folks. Victor Baird Fort Wayne, Indiana

Just a note, I have a copy of a photo of Bx48 #274714 taken in May of 1977 still having the "The Chief - Famous Daily Streamliner West". So it missed any repaint starting 1947 and again in

LCL was a RR's service not a shipper's service. So unless meat was delivered to the RR's freight house and the RR loaded it into a car it would not be LCL. There was a service where a shipper

Citrus too. The grapefruit I ate for lunch yesterday, which was picked three hours earlier, had a rind that was too mottled for sale, but tasted unbelievable. Al Brown, Melbourne,

Group- I was looking through my kits and found two different styles of sides for the O scale AAR 1937 boxcar kit from Intermountain. One kit was identified as having "shiplap" side plates and the

I don't know if this link was posted here, but beings Bill said he was going to "The Cities" I will post it. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rrclubum/ Clark Propst

Michael Mang wrote: Ordinarily the shippers put into the car whatever they wanted to ship, however much or little, and paid the tariff charges on whatever basis. For some cargoes there was a

Below is a list of cars in LOL service. For Fairfax MN on the M&StL in 47-8. These are from a Agent's seal book thanks to Sam Sherman. INTIALS NUMBER CONTENTS WFEX

I wrote: "Anyone want to get rid of one of these kits? I need one for a science project, and yes, I know the length is incorrect. Please contact me off-list to work out the details." It seems that

John Hile wrote: Note that this is in a car loaded entirely by the shipper, and handled in the shipper's car (leased or owned), and moved entirely to that shipper's customers. Normal LCL is

Here's perhaps a different way to ask this question. REA and other lines rostered express reefers that commonly ran on passenger trains. They did not always serve as refrigerators, sometimes carrying

Jeff, In Yorktown, IN along the NYC Marsh Foodliner had a produce warehouse. An Indianapolis to Cleveland passenger train would rip through Yorktown stopping at Muncie where it would drop off

Mine does the same thing, Jace. Bob

Jeff Yes, I think the railroad could deliver an express reefer to almost any freight depot or team track along a passenger train route for unloading (or even sale) by a wholesaler. I suppose it's

I finally got a copy of the sine qua non resource for this group, a 1940 CBC, at a price I thought reasonable; as it happens it is an original rather than the Kalmbach reprint. What I wonder about is