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

in LCL grocers On the Santa Fe reefers were sometimes used in LCL service on branchlines in place of a box car. No refrigeration was involved. Jared Harper Athens, GA

I didn't have a chance to make a formal annoucement for this project, but for those who might have missed it, Bill Welch's handout "The Wood Sheathed Cars of the FGEX/WFEX/BREX Freight Refrigerator

My understanding is that when it comes to meat, the peddler cars were pretty much pre-WWII. Which just about predates the work history of anyone active on the list. Larry's experince on the Sante Fe

Yes, that information is in my rolling stock painting and lettering guide, published by the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society. If you don't have it, it's still in print and available

Dad had a Farmall F-12 and later and F-14 both from the 1930s. Both were started on gasoline and, when warmed up, switched to diesel fuel. The "gas" tank was in two parts, the larger for diesel. Dad

The BRC cars were the basis for the Kato "Shorty" cupola caboose in N Scale. I measured several preserved cars and made scale drawings for the factory. The two series are different lengths. Both