Oh, no. Now we'll have custom-decorated "I.M. Pei" covered hoppers, carrying materials to his and only his projects . . . <G -- I think> Tony Thompson Editor Oh, brother, Tony, you were not aware

I think you're referring to trucks with outside brake hangers, i.e. a second set of brake shoes on each truck. US Steel roads like B&LE had them and some of the cars ended up on the Carbon County

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Oh, no. Now we'll have custom-decorated "I.M. Pei" covered hoppers, carrying materials to his and only his projects . . . <G -- I think> Tony Thompson

That's actually why I wrote "Portland cement". There are specialized formulations of 'cement' that probably can travel long distances. But as you say there is a relatively small amount of that.

In the Bessemer & Lake Erie book by Roy Beaver (Golden West, 1969), I found two pictures that caught my attention. One, there is a picture of a boxcar numbered 90000, with the comment that this was

From: STMFC Chet French I recall that Medusa was the last plant loading box cars. Chet French Dixon, IL Chet's mention of Medusa made me think of one thing that might make an exception to the

John Hitzeman wrote: Not to be picky, John, over what appears to be a brilliant technique, but wouldn't there be, at best, a 50:50 chance that the magnets would repel each other? Those thin magnets

Doug Harding wrote: Doug, is there a little hole in the car where this "insert" can be placed? <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA

John, my Iowa Central layout includes the Decker Meat Plant. Reefers loaded with swinging meat must be weighed, after pulled from the plant, before they can be placed in the yard for assembly in the

Clark and Chet's post both touch on car distributuion and how it was and is supposed to work. Assigned cars to assigned receivers. Car supply throuhgout the war and post war years was difficult at

Anyone know about where these other commodities where shipped to/from? Only cement hoppers were asked about, but I know the CGW had 2 bay covered hoppers assigned to haul other products from

Jim, This is a good question and I did not know the answer until I obtained copies of the documents with the assignments for covered hoppers for the B&O. From these documents prepared in the

OK, so its a crass commercial. Through the good offices of Plano Model Products, we have a respectable stock of the new, new, new etched lift rings. They are in HO scale #14650 4.5in X 2.0in #14651

It seems to me that Model Die Casting once offered their offset three bay hopper in B&LE with the correct trucks. They also came on their modern ore car. Charlie Vlk

All: Another thing to keep in mind is that 'cement hoppers' carried more than cement. I have 1948 conductor's logs showing sand, soda ash and lime all being carried in 1958 cu ft. LOs. Having said

Reading Clark's post reminded me that the IC also borrowed EJ&E cement hoppers occasionally. This may have been due to the fact that the "J" sometimes participated in the movement of the cement going

Jim, Mostly home road cars. When I went to work on the IC in 1960, the railroad had 440 covered hoppers assigned to protect the loading out of four cement plants on the Amboy District located at

The two cement plants in Mason City Iowa were served by four of the five class I roads in town. The fifth road would make arrangements with another road to transfer their hoppers and pool box cars.

Just a quick note to let all you folks know that WrightTrak will be attending the weekends festivities at Naperville. See you all there. Let us know what you are interested in and we will be sure to

Many don't know that NWSL sells a very flexible wire (29 guage) whose insulation is silicone. Pull the wire out and you are left with an extremely flexible hose about the size of an air hose. A