To add: I read a group of letters between PRR and a customer where PRR billed the customer for clean-out of a gondola where PRR got back loaded with trash and most damaging, oil drums full of waste

Guys; There are literally tons of correspondence on violations of instructions & stenciling I have read, where RRs like PRR, P&LE and P&WV wrote to their counterparts or customers, sometimes

Nice car, Chuck! Elden Gatwood

Jim Dick wrote: SP regularly issued "Equipment Instructions" to divisions, stating how various empties would be handled. I constructed a composite version suited to the era and locale of my layout.

Bob, some time ago I uploaded a Return m'tys via list to the files. It barely makes this lists timeline however it shows that the railroad mgmt. provided some guidance and I would think in concert

Or weathered silver? Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Tom Madden via groups.io" <pullmanboss@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Monday,

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 03:50 PM, Steve and Barb Hile wrote: "...they have a horizontal seam running the length of the side, like many all steel meat reefers."Not so sure this is a spotting feature of

Steve Hile, Yes, I saw the horizontal riveted seam, had planned that with a strip of Evergreen and Archer rivets but I didn't realize the length was longer, that's kind of a deal breaker now.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 04:38 PM, BRIAN PAUL EHNI wrote: As to color, I would assume either white or silver. Probably white; see below. No, it’s not Mathieson, but a competitor. For the car I

bud: didn't john do a version with the seam? the rest would be a standby foobie ;-) mel

Bud, There are a couple of challenges with these steel Wilson reefers, as compared to PFE R-40-23. One, they have a horizontal seam running the length of the side, like many all steel meat

Here is a Westerfield Mathieson Dry Ice Reefer model. Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM

As to color, I would assume either white or silver. Probably white; see below. No, it’s not Mathieson, but a competitor. Here are color photos of other DICX cars, and they’re white.

Doug, Yes sir that be the photo, thank you! They look to be a tad taller than say a PFE R40-23 or similar with the sill tabs removed and a straight sill out of styrene added in their place. I was

Chris, I'm not 100% certain what Corey is doing for the journals on the HO trucks, whether the conical shape is molded into the sideframes or Tichy Delrin inserts are used. Either way the axle

GBW 40' PS-1 boxcars (700-899) in their original PS paint had similar lettering in the same location just to the left of the door: "THIS CAR MUST NOT BE LOADED WITH ANY COMMODITY THAT WILL RENDER IT

Bob, Not an answer to your question, but in the 1970s I remember seeing WP 50' boxcars in Sacramento Northern's West Sacramento Yard that were stenciled as restricted to scrap battery loading. Lead is

The look pretty close! Schuyler

IIRC, the railroad allowing a shipper to load the car with one of the “contaminating” loads had to pay for rebuilding (relining the interior?) the car -- Ken Akerboom

Bob, Another form of an answer to your question about penalties is this: We had a Manager of Clerks, R. H. Blackburn, who would likely be the person to have a conversation with you if you screwed up