Unprocessed salt (right out of the mine) was tranported in both covered and uncovered hoppers and boxcars with paper liners. Processed salt usually in bags, barrels, or boxes for wholesale/retail

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This came up someplace before, and I was able to order a VHS copy of it. Typical 1930's melodrama, with a lot of Milwaukee Road action. A quick Google found

Try Movies Unlimited at: http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?sku=103039++ I have never delt with these people, but they list the movie. Peter ===== Tom Jones III wrote:

This may be a bit off topic, but I am told there are lots of great freight car shots in a movie called "Danger Lights" from about 1937. I also understand that it has some good operating sequences, but

Thanks to all that replied. Paul Gehrett

I have no first hand experience, but I have been told in bags in box cars. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Stephen (Steve)

These are the classes Sk.N and (as I recall) Sk.P which have Caswell dump mechanisms and drop doors. Yes, they were used for coke service in the other direction. The Keaton film Go West is

I am wondering how salt would have been transported during the era our group discusses. Given the corrosive nature was it carried in early covered hoppers? Steve Fuchs

Phil DaCosta has re-released the PFE book. It is substantially the same material as in the earlier release but he has added a nice selection of PFE and non-PFE refrigerator car photographs. Lars.

You should see his LAST film: The Railrodder, shot on the Canadian National with the Canadian Film Board. A silent movie with sound effect soundtrack, it's priceless. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

Hi Dean, Those roof hatches were for loading coke. The cars mostly had doors in the floor too. The idea was that the cars would haul livestock east and come back west with coke for home heating and

I was watching Buster Keaton's "Go West", and actually laughed out loud several times. Try that on prime time TV! Anyway, there are some good shots of ATSF stock cars, they appear to be nearly

Hello all, Bill, you didn't remember the message I sent you almost a year ago about this gel ? :-) For Justin, Ben and everybody interested in this product, here is the little thread which appeared on

Please excuse this message, but I received a call today from the Hilton Hotel at Cocoa Beach in which they indicated that a bag of tripod-like devices in a rather large bag had been left at the

Data Bingo, Dave - that's why I chose Excel for my large Pullman database. Click on any cell in the title row of your Excel spreadsheet, select "Data" and from the drop-down menu that appears

Recent versions of excel have a nearly identical function (called Data filter) that is much easier for the average person to use. I design and make extensive use of databases -- wheel reports, ICC

Doug Brown wrote Doug, how do you reconcile that with a picture of the 1953 published in a magazine in August 1950?

Oh man - this is a place that has "projects" all over. They have one the most eclectic collections I've seen. The loop is 3' and they run a nice Shay (the pattern for the Bachman Fn3 shay) and a

Cool! Looks like General American built cars. Too bad we don't have anything except brass for these.... Bruce