Not sure where in Florida bananas were received. I suspect in Tampa, mostly by the ACL, which emphasized bridge traffic more than the SAL did. But, from Gehrke's "The Freight Traffic Geography of

Gentlemen: I have some 8 MM railroad movies by Blackhawk Films. in excelent shape original boxes and cans: #810-319 Steam on the reading 1930, 2 200ft reels..$25. #810-61 Time freight to tidewate 2

the lemon Ed - Yes, they went from lemon yellow to a more orange shade of yellow for cars repainted starting in the late 1950s. My old friend, Ralph Carlson, saw ART cars from the late 1920's

model the Mexican Railway (los ferrocarriles de Mexico) and would be interested in any information available on the movement of ART cars in Mexico. agricultural areas to the west and north of

--- In STMFC@..., "skyking1084" <dlatimore@...> wrote: ART Fans, Thought you might enjoy this photo http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=132442 Looks like these are a MEC gold

ART Fans, Thought you might enjoy this photo: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=132442 Photo was done in 1964, check out the three logo cars done with the black outline logos and all

Mr Kott (or anyone else who might be interested), I noticed in your comments on the movement of ART cars north - I model the Mexican Railway (los ferrocarriles de Mexico) and would be interested

I have received a special purchase of Intermountain 33' semi-scale wheelsets. Normally priced at $10.00/12 axles, I am offering these for $6.50/ package. Branchline 36" semi-scale wheelsets specially

data we Sorry. These are the steps I used to get to a copy of the photo Use http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?timePeriod=1930-1949 as the link to a list of topics. Then

The link was a temporary one, we probably need some ID or other data we can search for. Sounds like a neat photo. Jim

Ed - Originally the cars were painted oxide with black and white herald. See my photo in Paul Pietrak's Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway (Paul Pietrak 1992). - Al

Al, No time limit as far as I know. The concept I meant by "Exception" was that most U.S. roads did not hold and accumulate Canadian cars for prospective loading. Somewhere in the original

Sept 1931 ORER shows 5786 40000 to 46240 cars and 799 55000 to 55799 cars.Armand Premo

I find myself facinated by the cover photo on Volume 2 of Ted's Prototype Railroad Modeling. You, too, can have your own 134 Megabyte copy from the Library of Congress website, if you

I'm detailing a Manuta "Heavies" gon for the Erie 44000-series, the prototype for the model (but it was never available lettered for the Erie!) The 44000-series was built in 1925 (or so), and had

Jim, Some comments that may shed some light on the issue in general. Before de-regulation transit times on lumber shipments were hard to even believe given today's standards. Much of the lumber

Jim Mischke wrote: "B&O was rather quick to rebuild and refurbish these decent, well maintained hoppers, because it was cost effective to do so. Many were already 10-13 years old at the 1932 merger

Ed Olszewski asked: "I am looking for information on Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh hoppers in the 40XXX and 46XXX classes. My ORER's only go back to 1955 and BR&P ceased to exist in 1932 I

I have never heard of interchange time limits, much less limits involving Canadian cars. B&O has several stories of new cars that never saw home rails for 10-12 years. Evidently there were

B&O was rather quick to rebuild and refurbish these decent, well maintained hoppers, because it was cost effective to do so. Many were already 10-13 years old at the 1932 merger and ready for