Clark Propst wrote: My understanding of a freightcar pool is the railroad that stands to get the greatest percentage of the line haul business has to contribute a corresponding number of cars to the

Tim, here's a link to a model. http://www.eldora.net/lyndon/propst/boxcar2902.html I'll post the prototype in the files section. Clark propst

I know little of car pools and am maybe oversimplifying things. My definition of a pool would be: Railroad X buys freight cars to carry an industries product. That industry loads and sends the cars

hoppers to South Freeport for handling by the IC and I think it billed some to Galena for the Q. Either line had a way from said locations to East St. Louis. Yes, and some probably went to

Clark, I would love to see a model of this car, since evidently they ran on the SP in the 1960 era. Can you post a photo? Does it have tab sills, taper sills (what style?) Does it match either the

Clark Tin plate equals Tin Cans, add in the M&StL and we arrive at Decker Meat in Mason City. And don't forget the various canneries, ie Marshall Canning #5 in Roland, Grinnell Canning in Grinnell,

Tony wrote: the Alameda I have been informed by an expert that they cars had 9' doors not 8' as I had first mentioned. Thanks for all the great replies. I think it is safe to assume (using

Wierton, WV once had--maybe still does--a sprawling steel mill. Would that make any sense? Tom By the way, Clark, I know that the CGW billed some of its ore hoppers to South Freeport for

All, This does make sense if the stock was shipped as cans or can stock in rolls as many of the cars Marked "WE" show up here in Salem, OR today loaded with empty cans for Truit Bros. canneries even

Larry Jackman wrote: We have this debate regularly and often: shall we use the railroaders' term, or the professional industry term? Both can work, of course, but often the railroaders used

timboconnor@... wrote: Tim, I have & found links to IHB's Blue Island Yard, ATSF's Corwith Yard although the photos at Corwith do not have the panoramas I am looking for. Many, many thanks

Clark and Greg, If the cars shipped coils to Alameda, they might well have been canstock. There was a large Del Monte cannery in Alamada. They primarily canned pineapples from Hawaii, but I think did

Gatwood, Elden wrote: There were canneries in East Oakland and one on Alameda in the 1940s. Elden's idea may well explain what that car was doing in Alameda (if it came there directly from

Tim, follow the directions I gave to Brian Ehni. As he said I only gave a link to the JPG version, which is 1000x smaller than the TIF file. If you could print the TIF it would be big enough to carpet

Clark, You may have hit on something. Weirton Steel was a major producer of tinplate. See this article from 1956 http://wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us/history/bus/WHSTEEL1.HTM Tim O'Connor

Maytag in Newton IA, on the branch out of New Sharon. Would seem odd for these new cars to be rocking down a light rail branch behind an ALCO. Clark Propst

Clark; Weirton Steel, which the PRR switched, was a division of National Steel during that period. Weirton made coke, pig, and steel, but they were also a huge producer of tin plate, both

Excellent! -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

Clark I agree with Greg, some kind of steel sheeting either in coils or flat form. Very useful for appliance manufacturing which I think was present somewhere on the M&StL. It looks like someone

Go here http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ Search for "Bensenville yard" Select picture 14. There are many other good photos too. To get the C&NW pictures look for "Proviso yard"