Here's a wild ass guess -- because the normal way to move cars around a tipple was "gravity" (release the brake and let the car roll). So maybe cushion underframes were an attempt to reduce damage

Bruce, You missed something in my message (or maybe I did). I was referring to the fact that the Pennsy house cars used square edge joint vertical siding on single sheathed cars, while everybody

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 21:29:45 -0400 "dixierails" <dixierails@...> writes: Dear Dix, Several years ago I was at the rail museum at Campos, east of San Diego. In residence was a C&O wood caboose.

Richard, Aparently you haven't been reading my messages about siding where I said repeatedly that I have developed a technique for scribing styrene to produce a light groove which I feel best

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 15:50:59 +0100 "Mike Calvert" <mike.calvert@...> writes: Mike, This is a fairly simple matter that would have only complicated the earlier discussions of v-joints. It

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:52:34 EDT BillD53A@... writes: I lived in Miami during the 50s and among other things I worked for a butcher. The story I was told about Florida cattle during that

Ed, I didn't say it was typical. All I said was "On horiz siding in building construction, the tongues should face up so the grooves don't trap and hold water." That means where t&g siding IS used

Interstingly, the bos indicus breeds of cattle (eg. Brahmin) have a 400+ breeding cycle, and these are the favored breeds for warm weather climates. Happy Rails Bruce Bruce,

In the course of working with the ICC data I learned an interesting factoid about rail shipments from Washington DC: The commodities in the number 1 and 2 position in 1950 were waste paper and

Been too busy to chip in on this topic, but here's a bit of data to chew on: 1950 rail shipments, in tons, from the ICC: Cattle* FL: 6179 out, 10212 in GA: 2288 out, 10049 in NC: 3116 out, 1219

Dr. Bruce, a dog's best frined,writes: I'm into a "warm day in June, 1944 on the PRR". Bruce, Well. I guess I'm into a blisteringly hot, humid day on the NC&StL in Alabama, or the

I thought I would fill folks in on the latest sighting and purchases of photos of Col. Chet McCoy from Bob's this past weekend. I did purchase only some sixty odd this time, versus ninety odd in

Somewhere here in the house I've got a copy of _The Essentials of Livestock Marketing_, a mid-50's propganda piece from some committee representing stockyard companies, but I can't put my hand on it

Tom, and y'all While breeding season can be controlled and is to some degree in the dairy industry (to insure year-round milk supplies), the beaf industry prefers to try to synchronize breeding as

Jack Wyatt: year I'm probably way out of my element here (which wouldn't be the first time), but out here in Colorado, calving is timed to take place in the very late winter or very early spring. This

<<I would like to continue the thread about meat and livestock transport as it applies to the SE USA. William Griffin in his book: SEABOARD:THE ROUTE OF COURTEOUS SERVICE has a photo of a solid

I'm into a "warm day in June, 1944 on the PRR". Interestingly, some wonderful data exists to build appropriate car fleets. I just purchased some back issues of the PRRT&HS mag the Keystone that are

Byron, You said: I was looking through some back issues of the Keystone this weekend, and happened to notice that even the PRR couldn't be consistent in this! The early cabin cars, such as the

Byron, As I'm sure you know, many stock cars were built with the same types of steel roofs as boxcars. Still, there were a lot of stock cars that retained their wooden roofs right up into the 1950s.

Tom, Smithfield is not served by any railway, nor was it for most of its existence. Briefly (circa 1948-1950, IIRC), Smithfield was served by the Smithfield Terminal Railway. This line ran from a