Why is there a resistance to FUBAR as the origin? One can readily describe a lame model with the words behind that acronym (whichever word starting with "F" you prefer). It has always seemed to me

I got a good chuckle over “when it was convenient” comment. Thanks for the dose of reality, Tony. Since we modelers don’t observe those instructions either, the stencils are purely

Roger, From what I was told just this morning, the MoT has not reopened yet. gary roe quincy, illinois On Tuesday, February 23, 2021,

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:16 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote: Have you ever spent time inside a closed freight car sitting in bright sunlight for a week?How 'bout a week at -20 deg. F? Guaranteed to freeze

Looking in my 5 slang dictionaries i can't find foobie, it isn't in a dictionary of railway terms, or language of the underworld. Could it be derived from the US cartoon character Smokey Storer. who

A good place to look would be the GSC collection at Museum of Transportation Library in St Louis;They have a lot of photos, I believe I saw some of what you’re looking for while I was there a couple

There are also the 25 all steel cars Mathieson bought from DSI in 1947 ( MAWX5034-5059) Roger Hinman

Have you ever spent time inside a closed freight car sitting in bright sunlight for a week? Those canned goods could easily test the boiling point of water if it weren't for

Why were canned goods shipped in refrigerator cars? I have alway treated canned goods as something that do not need any special storage. I'm British and my understanding of canned means the produce is

"fubar" is an adjective. "foobie" is a noun. Sometimes you need a noun, and you make one up based on an existing, but appropriate, different part of speech. Ed Edward Sutorik

Thanks, Elden. I guess I'm being too obvious. Jim Hunter

I suggest that "foobie" may have some relation to "boobie." Jim Hunter

John, Looks like Intermountain PS-1 ends Rich Christie On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 02:04:25 PM CST, golden1014 via groups.io

Nelson Moyer wrote: I once asked a former car clerk, whether those kinds of car-side restrictions or "return to" legends were observed. "Sure," he said, "when it was convenient." Tony

GSC was located in Eddystone, PA, near the Baldwin Locomotive Works. GSC supplied the industry with one piece engine beds/frames with cylinders cast integrally, tender trucks, tender under frames and

Tom Here are two more with gray sides and red ends - we may need to compile a timeline of ownership! :-) On 2/22/2021 7:04 PM, Tom Madden via

I am pretty sure the panel-sided MoPac gondolas carried sand a lot of the time, so 200 cubic feet of a dense material must have been worth it. The railroad had a lot of them so they must have seen a

maynard stowe wrote: Yes, he was, and he was using "foobie" back in the 1980s, maybe before. Tony Thompson tony@...

Elden Just an observation - Railroads do consider that X54 car to be a "reefer" - RB. All of the railway literature and especially financial reports I've read classify

Dave Nelson wrote: Richard said he learned it in the Navy, from FUBAR. I have never heard of the term applied to silicone body parts, and in fact would suspect that's a "false construction." Tony