Bob Chaparro wrote: I count six cards or remnants of cards. Clerks would tell you they never bothered to remove old cards, but just added the new one that was needed. Tony Thompson tony@...

Pickles and vinegar have little in common other than they shipped in wood vats or tanks. I have not found any information on salting stations within Cali. Pickles were packed in the Seattle area by

Photo: American Steel & Wire Company Gondola 1204 A circa 1915-1917 photo from the University of Pittsburgh Digital

Photo: WF&NW Boxcar 4108 A 1913 photo from the University of Pittsburgh Digital Archives: https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A715.133770.CP/viewer Scroll on the photo to

Photo: Flat Cars With Stationary Steam Engine Load A 1907 photo from the University of Pittsburgh Digital

X26 540005 to the right has had "LINES" painted out. Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn AL

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Photos: S.P. Boxcar 84993 Two 1918 photos from the University of Pittsburgh Digital

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Photo: Illinois Central Concrete Coal Hopper Car 230000 A 1919 photo from the University of Pittsburgh Digital

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Re: Absence of receiving stations in CA We can only speculate, but the factory in Tracy was completed in 1946, and accounted for 15% of Heinz's US production (see p. 7). Tracy is in the (northern)

Mont and friends, That must have been some pretty thin stock to have fitted so many coils in those old gondolas. I'm most familiar with much heavier coils that were shipped from USS Geneva in Utah to

Mont and Andy; Industry guys generally summarize it this way: Hot coil, because it does not require weather protection (since it undergoes additional treatment elsewhere, or not at all) goes eyes

Those are 1/4 ton jeep trailers, on one of them you can see the stepped top. The 1 ton trailers have a large stamped steel landing wheel which would be visible. I have a 1945 Ben-Hur one ton trailer.

According to Tim Gilbert, B&M covered hopper 5599 (purchased by the B&M 1954, later renumbered 010) was ex-KCEX #119, built "1916" (!!! pretty sure that's a typo) I can't find those reporting marks in

I would suspect in that era the original coils were shipped on end in closed (boxcars) cars with lots of blocking and bracing. Enclosed cars helps prevent rust, dirt, etc. for the same reasons most

RE: Receiving stations in bay area Could another company have acted as a distributor in California? -- Ken Akerboom