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Hopper decals

I've been progressing on several HO scale hopper models. These are all in the decal application phase. Details are in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post.

By Eric Hansmann · #185180 ·

Re: USRA SS Boxcars Circa 1958

How about peanuts and other agricultural products?. Owen Thorne

By Owen Thorne - owen at udel.edu · #185179 ·

Kerite Wire Load On T&P Flat Car

Kerite Wire Load On T&P Flat Car An article from Randy Hammill‘s Layout Blog: https://blog.newbritainstation.com/2021/03/kerite-wire-load-on-t-flat-car.html?m=1 The Kerite Company made insulated

By Bob Chaparro · #185178 ·

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

Hi Don and List Members, While true, I don't think the car in Renovo would have been handling bulk orange juice... Claus Schlund

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #185177 ·

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

How far is Renovo from Hershey Pennsylvania? Lots of milk chocolate made there... On 6/17/2021 1:18 PM, Claus Schlund \(HGM\) wrote: -- Tim

By Tim O'Connor · #185176 ·

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

Hi everyone, For those interested in Renovo and milk traffic, you might want to look over the PRR document linked below... http://prr.railfan.net/passenger/MakeUpOfTrains_ER_NYZone_1929.pdf

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #185175 ·

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

Perhaps it was no longer in raw milk service? Freight cars often have interesting experiences later in life... :-) On 6/10/2021 7:27 PM, robert netzlof wrote:

By Tim O'Connor · #185174 ·

Re: USRA SS Boxcars Circa 1958

Two possible products from the RF&P's home area are oak lumber and whiskey. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

By Richard Townsend · #185173 ·

Re: Wanted images of WP 40' stock cars

I have no date for this photo but here it is. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

By Bob Chaparro · #185172 ·

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

By 1952 a number of the containers for NX flat cars had transitioned from milk. Some handled bulk orange juice and others went to Borden Chemicals for transport of various products of theirs. Don

By Don Burn · #185171 ·

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

Yeah, but not around Renovo. There's very little around Renovo, other than trees. A 19th century travel book called the stretch of the then Philadelphia and Erie rom Renovo westward to Ridgway "a

By robert netzlof <rtnetzlof@...> · #185170 ·

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

I admit to being a bit smartass about my reply, but I do know that the reach of the milk business for consumption in NYC was very, very extensive. Port Allegany and Eldred are admittedly a stretch,

By Schuyler Larrabee · #185169 ·

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

Yes, Schuyler, there are cows in Penna. but not many in that neighborhood. There may have been shipping sources further west and north in McKean and Potter Counties but I have never heard of it

By Schleigh Mike · #185168 ·

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

That's pretty likely. There ARE cows in Penna., you know. Schuyler

By Schuyler Larrabee · #185167 ·

Re: Rapido USRA Single Sheath Boxcar announced

Thanks very much for posting this. I was about 3 roads through doing a similar canvasing myself. As for the C&O cars - I'm a C&O modeler and I've been doing some prep work for a kitbash of both the

By Andy Cummings · #185166 · Edited

Re: C&O 40ft steel gondola and a flat with removable milk containers - Renovo PA 1952

I live not far from Renovo and I'm having trouble understanding what a milk tank car would be doing there. Perhaps it was merely passing through on its way to some place where there were cows?

By robert netzlof <rtnetzlof@...> · #185165 ·

Kits

Some know that I am moving to O scale. Please contact me off list at bnonut@... and I will send it to you. Mark Morgan

By Mark · #185164 ·

Re: New ebay ops

Guess I'm the outlier here, I still crank out a ton of surplus items each month that I've accumulated. Funds my current endeavors. There's no other market with that worldwide exposure and convenience.

By radiodial868 · #185163 ·

Re: Updated 1944 USRA single sheathed cars

Randy Thanks for sharing your color matching swatches and formulas. Color matching at times easy and other times takes a while to get the color right; however, it will/can happen. Lester Breuer

By frograbbit602 · #185162 ·

Re: USRA SS Boxcars Circa 1958

Ed, Absolutely true. But if an RF&P car was to be regular on my small layout, I would want to justify it by having an industry that would receive cars regularly from the RF&P. Thanks for the car

By Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...> · #185161 ·

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