A copy of the January 1943 ORER has been in my librarysince it was first reprinted by the NMRA in 2001. It was my first exposure tothis type of data and captured my interest. A very handy table can

The ErieLack list returns to the freight car topic... part of the NPS Steamtown collection posted by Historian/Archivist Pat (Richard) McKnight; A full walk-around of DL&W 35059... a Class B-7

Jeff, It’s a 4600 series USRA double-sheathed box car. Hopefully, I’ll be able to try the Scalecoat this weekend or perhaps ELO. Since this is for a kitbash I would prefer to return it to

Sent off list. About 8 MB total. Best regards, David Jobe, Sr. Saint Ann, MIssouri

Kind of like displaying Grandma in her casket, in the parlor, in July.

I know that Tony, I was responding to Tim's statement. Bill Welch

Caption: "Louisville andNashville Railroad local freight train crosses Cumberland River as it leaves Clarksville, Tennessee,on run to Parisin September 1959. Photograph by J. Parker Lamb, © 2016,

Yep, field heat is a familiar concept in produce shipping. It combines thermal heat from warm air, etc. with the biological heat from life processes that continue in most fruits and vegetables after

Bill, I was talking about BAR. Tony Thompson

After 1960? Off in the dim future somewhere? C'mon, Tim. Tony Thompson

I am modeling an undecorated Red Caboose X29 and am seeking scans of Ted Culotta's January and February 2007 RMC Essential Freight Car articles on the Pennsy X29 class. I do not necessarily need hard

I ran this by John Young, a friend who recently retired from a career at the Pepsi bottling plant in Howell, Michigan: In the early 1950's, CO2 would probably been delivered in larger (200 gallon

I had presented last year at both Chicagoland and Cocoa and this spring at a Twin Cities RPM about National Reefer Movements. (Do I have too many Reefers?) In it I had presented that there was a

For what it's worth, I used lacquer thinner with both Floquil and Scalecoat before I switched to acrylics. It worked better with Floquil and saved some cash over buying brand specific thinners. A

A'hem, pretty broad statement regarding pre-1960. FGE's Plywood sheathed FOBX 50-foot 4000 overhead bunker cars built beginning in 1944 were equipped with heaters under the floor and while granted it

The packing and loading methods changed over the years, by region and by crop. Watermelons did not need much more than a “watermelon” (ventilated) box car and layers of straw. Putting them in rail

If you are talking about the very early years of nationalproduce shipments, things were somewhat different. In Southern California (mainly pre-1910), the citrus crop was sorted andpacked in the field

Before loading any produce to be sold in markets onto rail cars for shipment, it went from the field directly to a facility where it was all sorted, inspected, graded, often washed, then counted or

Tony After 1960, a minority of the reefers had either interior alcoholheaters, or charcoal heaters mounted underneath, like the XI cars. Some of thesewere equipped for bulk potato loading. However,

I've got all three of those in my solvent collection. Thanks for the ratios. -- John P.S. Acetone can be use with other solvents to accelerate the drying of lacquer, just as Butyl Cellosolve is used