Seamless pipe in that era was made by a process known as pilgering, which means that a hollow round billet was just rolled back and forth by angled rollers on the outside and the inside. The billet

Mont, Ron et all, My guess is that it was done in an effort to minimize waste of over/underlength pipe by not cutting of the excess or rejecting pipe shorter than 21' or 42'. In smaller sizes of pipe

Ron, Your post was most interesting and answers a lot of questions. Thank you for sharing it. Any idea why "double random" vs. sections of all the same size? Mont Switzer

Using the link Larry Kline gave to the aforementioned collection I found an overhead of a FGE reefer (city photographer collection using railroad as a search word)which has a roof similar to the

I'm looking for better data on the series L&N 97350-99, reportedly built 5-60 by ACF. (I'm of the opinion that anything that happened in that year is still fair game for this list.) My problem is

I'll take this question since I make my living with pipe. Regarding line pipe, used for overland pipelines, the sizes could range from 3" to 24" OD in this era. The first long-distance 24" line was

Tom Jones wrote: There is lots of 39' pipe out there in the ground from pipelines of that era. . . . ---------------------------------- There is a great May 1949 shot of a pipe load in a P&LE gon on

Bruce, We are talking about really big rocks here. These were loaded and unloaded with a crane equipped with a mechanical claw that could grapple with the boulder to lift it into/out of

In the July issue of MR I noticed an advertisement for gondola loads. I think they were N scale. My question has nothing to do with the manufacture or their product; but one of the loads raised a

Group: I started working on these cars this weekend and realized I had a "senior moment" regarding mention of the trucks in my 6/24 post. The first 150 (9001-9150) cars had the ASF A-3's. The

I need advice ,articles and online prototype pictures to make the Atlas 42 foot GSC pulpwood car of the 1950 's era in HO scale accurate to the 1953-1955 era when the real cars were kind of

I'm out here. I'll have to look at the Ridgehill/Kaslo cars, now that your tempting me.... For reasons that are obvious, my work bench is now eqipped with the biggest illuminated magnifying glass I

did build display. Then Charlie, I have just finished a CNR wood caboose kit from Ridgehill/Kaslo in S scale, and I'm almost finished the first of three 36' CNR Fowler/Dominion boxcars from the

The latest Mainline Modeler has an article from an HO modeler who did build the Chooch O scale Soo Line boxcar. He says he built it for display. Then he says he is thinking about building another O

It should be pointed out (apologies if it has already) that Chooch has a new resin kit for the sawtooth Soo Line Fowler boxcar in O Scale. See http://www.choochenterprises.com Speaking as a 30-year

Har-de-har-har. Tom Jones III

I asked on the SOO Line site about the progress of the old Storzek resin kit. This is the reply I received: We briefly discussed the status of this project at our May Board of Directors meeting.

There is lots of 39' pipe out there in the ground from pipelines of that era. . . . Tom Jones

Eric Hansmann asked: How about pipe? I guess this qualifies as "other steel shapes or plates", but it seems different enough to note it. How much tube went from the NE to the oil fields of Texas and

Rob, This is what I found in the ORER / 1953 NOTE > all gallon figures are Imperial Gallons DSLX Can. & Dominion Sugar 4---8000 50t