The Spruce Goose was made of birch plywood, not spruce. The spruce originally was used for WWI airplanes.

Tony, In a word "no". That would have required going onto railroad property. Even back in the 1980s, the Chessie System and the Southern was really tight about trespassing, and they were prosecuting

On Jun 2, 2020, at 16:32, Bill Decker <sp.billd@...> wrote: [...] > At this point, the Toledo mill, a former US Army Spruce Division mill ... as in Goose? I've been wondering (idly) where the

Claus, Definitely wood chips. At that point in the 1950s (1958), Georgia Pacific was shipping wood chips from the mill at Toledo, Oregon. GP purchased the Toledo mill from C.D. Johnson in 1956. I

Thanks for these, Garth. The bunk cars are really interesting, and your shots are very clear and definitive. Did you by any chance see the opposite sides? were they the same? Tony Thompson tony@...

Friends, Today, I am finishing up presenting photos of C&O MW house cars. This isn't all that I have, but what's left are essentially duplicates of what you've already seen. I have a few C&O open

My muse whispers "wood chips" in my ear.

SP 50’ door and a half automobile cars had there roofs cut off for wood chip service in the fifties. Paul Doggett England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Woodchips, most likely for paper manufacture. The SP sent a lot of chips up their line to Portland and on via the NP to Longview Fiber in Longview WA. Todd Sullivan

Claus, Those look like early wood chip cars. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Hi List Members, Can anyone say what exactly is going on here? Are these cars being loaded with sawdust? https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:df65vv071 Enjoy Claus Schlund

Hi Eric, My collection of photos of SHPX LO’s is very limited. The ones that I have that are legible are all photos of new cars that have not been reweighed. Sorry, -Jeff

The photo date is given as March, 1912. The safety appliances look like a work in progress. The grabs look OK, but that sill step is iffy. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA

It looks like the car has a 4-20 weigh stencil. Or is that 4-20 11 with a larger space than usual? I’m more accustomed to seeing pre-1915 weigh dates presented as fractions. Where was AR for a

Photo: "Elk" Boxcar A 1912 photo from the University of Oregon Libraries: https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:df71d132q Caption: "Two men standing at the door of a boxcar used to

Photo: Mather Patent Illinois Central Reefer An undated photo from the University of Oregon Libraries: https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:df71fp45w Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

It looks to me as if the letter "i" in "Meat Rail" was left off the stenciling over the door. But maybe it's just the angle of the photo. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I'm pretty sure the buyer specified what they wanted for all such features, rather than GATC doing "what they liked to do." Tony Thompson tony@...

Hi List Members, Lots of nice PM twin hoppers in the image linked below... https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc78468_3 Enjoy! Claus Schlund

A double-ended business car! David Soderblom Baltimore MD USA drs@...