I knew you guys would find stuff I only stumble across in my haphazard middle-of-the-holiday-rumble. --Rich Beaubien Bolton MA

Tony Thompson notes: "You may have forgotten it, Mike, but the statistics are given in the PFE book: only about 20 percent of westbound PFE cars were loaded. Page 20: in 1940, it was 19.6 percent,

This site is a treasure trove of pictures. Some of the links to trade publications are pretty good too. I did a search on "locomotive" and was able to find a file of modern and historic photos of

John, Once a private?agreement or contract (commonly known as?a letter quote)?became public it became a tarriff. Greg Martin

Mike Brock wrote: You may have forgotten it, Mike, but the statistics are given in the PFE book: only about 20 percent of westbound PFE cars were loaded. Page 20: in 1940, it was 19.6 percent,

If you look on this page on the link to "McKinley, William..." and on that linked page for "Execution of Czolgosz, with panorama of Auburn Prison" there are some fairly good views of freight cars

I've always wondered why Erie and Lackawanna had their own small fleets of leased reefers with so many empties leaving the New York city area. I know Erie's cars were used for bannanas. There are

My point, of course, was not so much about cranberries...or the lack of them...but, rather, that by far the most common consist of PFE reefers returning to the West was...air. It is interesting

Why not? My beautiful NYC Jewish wife served them all the time. The year around. One thing you can say for Jewish people is they know how to eat. MmmmmmGood Thank you Larry

Mike Brock wrote: Um, this is neither when the cranberries are harvested, nor (at least in my family) when they're eaten--think Thanksgiving and Christmas. We don't have a cranberry in sight

The top level web page for these films is: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Motion+Picture There are 20 films for Westinghouse and Westinghouse Air Brake and many more listed

I have posted some for sale items on trainorders at the link below. You do not need a membership to view. Lots of Intermountain, Red Caboose, IMWX. All steam era of course. PRR, UP, CNW, SP, CN,

Mike Brock wrote: [snip] Machinery?? Tom Madden

Posted by: "John Hile" I did, however, upload a pdf scan to the STMFC file area of Rule 36 from Tariff 13 (file name: P P Tariff 13 Rule 36) which gives the general rules for furnishing

Mike Brock wrote: "Using the theory that the proof of the puddin' is in the eatin' I decided to take a look at the consists of PFE, SFRD and FGE reefers in about 17 WESTBOUND UP trains passing between

Using the theory that the proof of the puddin' is in the eatin' I decided to take a look at the consists of PFE, SFRD and FGE reefers in about 17 WESTBOUND UP trains passing between Laramie and Green

Note the corrected link below. . . That's the East Pittsburg(h) Works in East Pittsburgh/Turtle Creek. The camera was running on the PRR. KL .

the public. > Unless, of course, the agreement became public through litigation... See: Tank Car Corp. v. El Dorado Terminal Co., 308 U.S. 422 (1940)

Stumbled across this 2-part 1904 video in the Library of Congress of the Westinghouse Works in Western PA. There's a couple of interesting things about this; 1) it's taken from somewhere on a moving

Mike, I think that "mchy" is machinery. Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and eat a lot of cranberries. Chuck Hladik **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes