I was stationed on an ammo ship out of Concord in the mid seventies and seem to remember six wheel Alco? switchers making all the moves to the pier. I routinely saw all the pier trackage but never

NC Someone Reporting marks were W. of A. In the 1943 ORER they had no cars in the 84000 series. FWIW there was a Ware Shoals RR Co but it was a short connecting line in S.C. and had no freight

unusually point exceed the ARA dimensions other Then the Milw. car interiors may have actually been different. In the mid 70's I worked for a short while at the Andersen Window plant in

It seems obvious that during WWII, the AAR rules regarding return of empties were not followed, at least for priority military shipments Bill Williams

Denny, Thank you for the fascinating account. I've found the aerial of the place from 1993.

About ten years ago, about fifteen of us took our track motorcars and were treated to a comprehensive Sunday tour of all of the trackage in then very active Concord Naval Weapons Station on the north

The Accurail website shows three single sheathed boxcar models lettered for FtDDM&S, L&NW and WAG (www.accurail.com/accurail/art/3300/3367.jpg). I understand these roads had a common ownership, and

I just got off the phone with Rob Sarberenyi and we were talking about the Bay Area Prototype Modelers Meet scheduled for April 20, 2005. He isn't a member of this list but he asked me to post the

Thanks! Not sure if it's "A" or "B", but I'll use the letter code that is on the NWX car boxes. While I'm at it, does anyone know of a source, book or photos, for some good pictures

You are invited to attend: Rails By The Bay A Pacific Northwest Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet Saturday, June 25, 2005, 9am to 6pm Bellingham, Washington Presented by: Brian Rutherford, Rick

Dear Stem fans, Sorry for the strange message. My finger slipped and the reply from another message went to you. Patricia Westerfield

Thank you for the clarification of your order. We are a bit behind, so it may be a week or so before we can ship this. Patricia W.

Chuck, Thanks for clearing something up for me. 'Cause I couldn't for the life of me figure out how sparks from brake shoes could ignite a dormant weapon. Of course they couldn't -- but the shoes

Well you know me...a goldmine of useless info! I used to get allo thsoe reports when I was on the county Planning board. I think the phtos of bomb assy and loading were at the navy facility at

<< One of the components of the old Southern was "Western Railway of Alabama", but I don't know if it had its own reporting marks. Someone else might verify this one way or the other. I think Wabash

at 10:45 One of the components of the old Southern was "Western Railway of Alabama", but I don't know if it had its own reporting marks. Someone else might verify this one way or the other. I think

A bit later than the steam era, but in 1969 I was working on an airborne night vision viewing system. One night we were flying along a RR track where a slow moving freight train was applying brakes.

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Sounds like a guy could replace the milled basswood sheathing with styrene, the crude cast potmetal parts with comtemporary injection molded ones, and end up with a pretty nice model (of course, with

Schuyler, No, none went off. Once the contractors found the first bomb, they moved very carefully. The ordinance was defused by military experts and taken away. IIRC, they turned up about a dozen