Clark Probst , who is only a near-miss-Minnesotan, writes- Now, as to Ole and Lena: THAT, I do understand- Denny -- Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento

Richard identifies the N.A.D.X 6000 series- Yes. As I have commented to Richard off list (and before receiving this Digest), I suspect that in this very early kit, the original sides, probably

NADX series 6000-6399 (only a small number of cars in the series would have been assigned to PEP, of course). Built in 1927 at the Hegewisch, IL, plant of the Pressed Steel Car Co. PSC built many

Hudson Coal Co. , Northeastern Pa. used box cars for coal along with hoppers and even their ads in a promotional book on coal shows box cars being loaded with coal...WJK I can scan a photo of this

What would the coal loading equipment have consisted of? Also, was this a widespread practice (eastern roads as well) or was it local to the grain states? Thanks, Dave Smith

In my collection of "old things", I have a very neatly proportioned, neatly detailed, and neatly built yellow/oxide wood-model, wood-prototype house car from the 1950's, North American Despatch NADX

most packing houses had loading platforms anyway. woody grosdoff

Signature Press is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 4 of the series, Southern Pacific Freight Cars, by Anthony Thompson. Its subject is box cars, in the approximate time period of 1865 to

Ted Larson wrote: Not a bad story, Ted, except in the heyday of the 36-foot box car, many reefers were still 34 feet long. So why weren't the packing houses set up with 34-ft. doors? or if they

15392 Long ago and far away I read that in days of yore, 36' boxcars were standard, and so were reefers. Packing companies built their doors to 36'. When longer cars came to be normal, new reefers

Another item for the coal-in-boxcars discussion: Prior to WWII, the Truax-Traer Coal Company and others operated several open-pit lignite mines in Northwest North Dakota, some of them shipping up to

Most likely a broom. After all, the cars were carrying GRAIN, not flour. Considering that the FDA has written specifications for the maximum amount of insect parts allowable in milled cereal grain,

Hi Denny, There is a list from a depot agent's seal book in the M&StL group files for Fairfax MN. There are several box cars of coal delivered and these same cars were filled with corn before being

Russ- "War Emergency" cars were standard ARA (ARR??) designs that had the sides replaced with steel exposed steel truss and single sheathing to save on steel. IIRC the NP and GN had similar double

Very interesting comment on the common use of grain cars for the backhaul carriage of retail coal. I recall well that about every little Iowa town's fuel dealer had a coal yard, also very commonly in

All; Thanks for all this insightful discussion! What recommendations do you all have in HO models for SS or DS cars (and their rebuilt brethren) in their late (50's+) configurations and

Malcom, Excellent comments. At the CB&Q Cicero Yard every afternoon they would mimeograph "Night Orders". Included were where and how many box cars were to be provided. The freight houses would get

Charlie, The age of the cars was a moot point. Age did not become an issue in car usage until the 80's. "War Emergency Cars"? Don't know what you mean there. While GN had a large fleet of double

While we're talking about what we'd like, I¹d like to get an answer from RPI about my inability to log into the site, but John has ignored three of my emails so far. -- Brian Ehni From: dti_nut

I received one of Southern low side gons from the SRHA yesterday. This is first close-up examination I have been able to make of a model done by "rapid prototyping." The results are very nice overall.