hear hear! :-)

Yes. In fact, he sent an e-mail to the STMFC group last August offering to exchange diagram books. His e-mail address is <raildata@...>. Richard Hendrickson

John Hile wrote: I have a copy of an early 40's document from the WP President's files that cites receipt of a couple of carloads of Alabama Coke for use by a central California Sugar refinery (pure

About 10 year ago I was able to acquire a photocopy of an L&N freight car diagram book from Allen Stanley in Greer, SC for the cost of the copying. Is Allen still around and is he still doing this

Hello Fiddler: Chlorine cars are dealt with in Ed Kaminski's book "Tank Cars ACF" Signature Press 2003. A couple of photos of Hooker cars and a general arrangement drawing taken from the 1928

Shawn, Here's what Wikipedia has to say: *Pig iron* is the intermediate product of smelting <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting> steel ore with coke <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29>

John Hile wrote: What exactly is the difference between "pig-iron" and regular iron?. Is one of lower quality than the other? Shawn Beckert

The MDC/Athearn car referrenced is the HO version.... thankfully, although I haven't done a technical prototype analysis of the MDC/Athearn N Scale car, it seems to have better dimensions, proportions

CGW sold a good number of hoppers to Chicago Freight Car Leasing (IIRC) in the 60's, and leased them back with new numbers. (The date may make it modern freight car content, but it's relevant as to

Walt Lankenau wrote: "The May 08 MR has an ad on page 81 for a ballast hopper based on the MDC car. The body shell appears to be substantially the same as the old MDC model, albeit with nice

That's very interesting info from John Hile -- thanks, John. For what it's worth, there's also an MP 70-ton hopper, no. 55156, shown as the first car of an eastward steam-powered Santa Fe freight in

Would the City of Commerce steel plant & other smelters/furnaces in SoCal be receiving all their coke from out of state (& possibly some bought from Kaiser Fontana's production) instead of making

Ben Hom said: "...and have no idea that any of the nastiest features (that goofy side sill and those horrbile hoppers come immediately to mind). That being said, if these are corrected.."

If the coal in MP hoppers seen at San Bernardino was coking coal, the small steel plant in the City of Commerce also could have been its final destination. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

wrote: Allow me to add the following regarding coke from Mineral Commodities of California, Bulletin 156, 1950... "Metallurgical-grade coke has been produced in California only since 1943. This

The CGW had some hoppers than 'looked' similar to the Roundhouse model. The only photo I have handy is of one renumbered in the 6900s. They may have been 69000s first. Clark Propst

The May 08 MR has an ad on page 81 for a ballast hopper based on the MDC car. The body shell appears to be substantially the same as the old MDC model, albeit with nice wire grabs, roping staples,

Model story other Within the last few months, the NMRA magazine Scale Rails published drawing of this car. John

Tim O'Connor wrote: "Since Athearn has now upgraded the old MDC triple offsets, and since this car is physically different than either the Stewart or Accurail models, I thought I'd ask now if this car

Since Athearn has now upgraded the old MDC triple offsets, and since this car is physically different than either the Stewart or Accurail models, I thought I'd ask now if this car is accurate for any