Ben, I can see with this large fleet of auto-boxes why Henry Ford asked the PRR serve the Rouge complex in 1920. The C&O went from 198 36-ft to 2000 40-ft auto-boxes in 1923-1925 and the PM added

Almost. I have a copy of "Sacramento General Shops" Compiled and written by D. L. Joslyn - - - - 1948 45 pages or so. It needs a new home. If you are interested, let me know. SGL La vita e

Al Kresse asked: "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 the late 50's and early 60's my parents would send oranges back to the family in IL. We would go to the Villa Park, CA packing house to buy them and the packing house arranged for the shipping.

Cliff Prather wrote: Of course. But what's your point? Larry Jackman's claim was that perishables in the east are better quality than where they're grown, in California. I still say, baloney.

I understand that shippers could have a car sent to a series of destinations for unloading part of the shipment at each point. Did this happen with perishable? Small shipments of citrus could be

The highest grade of fruit will go to where the highest price can be obtained. The areas where the fruit was not common usually paid a greater price. There were several factors in grading citrus

I did not say all the good produce was shipped east. What I said was the growers that did ship sent their best and kept the #2 grade at home for the local market. Yes you got some good stuff in

Another (only) use for multi-dome tank cars. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS

out of Detroit/Flint/ lines, and photos would be be in . . . a midwestern or participated in the traffic Even in the 20s, Malcolm? SGL

That sounds right, Al. We moved to "the new house" in early '56 (I was seven). The old house was oil, used in a converted-from-stoker-fed coal. My dad did the conversion himself - I know

go slightly More cars from the Fairfax Agent's seal book. I don't know how badly Yahoo format will screw the columns up. DATE TRAIN NO. INTIALS

they Hi Ed, Like most early tractors, Ford's 9N and its successor the (virutally identical for modeling purposes) postwar 8N both had gasoline engines ( a newer model often had a lower number number

As has already been said, most agricultural tractors built during the period of this list had gasoline motors, which could alternatively run on tractor fuel a.k.a 'distillate' a.k.a tractor vaporising

a Reading freight running through Skillman behind an M1sa Mikado. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=222955&nseq=5 <http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=222955&nseq=5> Thanks for

I'm interested in the area around Middletown, NY (east end of the Erie) and Wilkes Barre, PA. An 8000 gal. tank car could be emptied pretty fast if it supplied a couple of stations. Even in a rural

Not that this has much to do with freight cars (although tractors were carried on flat cars) the year diesel engines appeared on the following farm tractors was: Caterpillar 1931; International

they In small towns in the midwest oil jobbers were often located along the house track as were other businesses. Each jobber had a stand pipe for unloading the cars. At Eskridge of Santa Fe's Alma