During a fascinating seven year interregnum when I lived in Montpelier, VT, I belonged to a small and very tight group of old-line Capitol Vermonters who met one Saturday night each month to formally

Group... I received Ted Culotta's new book in the mail yesterday... <http://www.speedwitch.com/Books.htm> To say that I'm impressed would be a high-magnitude UNDERSTATEMENT !!!! With over 50 pages

Coincidental to the discussion of molasses tank cars, I stumbled on the photo at the URL

List, Is there any railroadiana swapmeet in the lower 48 that stands out for having freightcar and freight operations - related material on the tables? Seems to me that recent swapmeets - at least

Hello all, I don't know if this was sent the first time; the mail manager said they detected Spam and blocked the message. Anyway, try it out. It is interesting. Virgil Young Amarillo,

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Sorry everyone-that was meant for Mont. Web based e-mail yadda yadda yadda. Now back to molasses. Regards, Mike __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you

Mont, Do you have the flat car diagram in a easily e-mailable form? I've got one of my two cars done and it would be good to have a least one with the stake pockets right!! As an aside, I stopped

During the first half of the 20th Century, there were a number of industrial alcohol manufacturers in the Boston area whose products were used in the munitions mfg industry. Molasses was used in the

John LaRue has a couple of negatives of tank cars from the XYZ molasses company in his collection. I'm preoccupied at the moment (the stock market is a little "choppy") so can't look for the photos

Not that surprising - it's been written up in at least 4 national history magazines several scientific journals, some general magazines a couple books, and the resulting investigations and such

Eric Hiser wrote: "I thought it was also related to concerns about loss/contamination of grain in single sheathed cars, at least for the granger and semi- granger roads...." True for SS boxcars, but

Ben Hom wrote: Surprisingly, there's a website on the January 15, 1919 South Boston molasses disaster: http://edp.org/molasses.htm A correction - the molasses flood happened in the North End, not

Irv Thomae wrote: I'm wondering what Boston-area company might have been the source of that molasses. Not sure if they were survived past 1919, but US Alcohol Company was one. Surprisingly,

Actually, the only definate molasses tank car in my collection is ISTX 533, operated by the Southgate Molasses Co. out of Norfolk, VA. It's a nice shot of a rather "stocky" old tank car...and best

Ben and Mike: Let me jump in here a little regarding the MONON 7501 - 7510 series forty-foot flat cars. They were converted from stone gons built in 1926 to flat cars in 1945. They were off the

Ben Hom observed: I thought it was also related to concerns about loss/contamination of grain in single sheathed cars, at least for the granger and semi-granger roads.... Eric Hiser Phoenix, AZ

irv_thomae wrote: Irv, I cannot tell you who was the shipper, but the tank car(s) was(were) either owned by the shipper or leased from car line such as GATX or SHPX - probably not from UTLX whose

This story orginates in an oral-history interview with a now-retired Vermont farmer who worked at a small-town feed & grain dealer in the late 1930's. He told me that at least until the end

Note the Virginian hopper in the background on p.25. I wonder what brought it to Massachusetts at that late date? David Thompson