Tony writes in reply: "Not true at all. Waybills were often altered and corrected. Jerry Stewart, who worked for years as a car clerk, stated to me that only a minority of waybills, probably

I have a Walthers USRA gondola painted and lettered for the Reading RR. I'm trying to come up with a suitable and interesting load for it. My research on Reading, PA disclosed that the city is or

Except the Simplex bolster wasn't cast, it was fabricated, but using few rivets. It's selling point was the structural steel cross members, for those who didn't trust castings not to crack in service.

Greg's instructions for the DT&I gon are also available on the Shake'n'Take list web page in the files section. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shake_N_Take Tony, do I detect that you omitted

Waybills could have many notations and changes made to them, including weighing, diversion, icing, new instructions, rates, special requests etc....however, when lading was transfered from one car to

There was more than one Simplex bolster design too. The TLT truck is one. I have a hi-res 1967 picture of an SP flanger that has very different looking bolsters, but cast into the face is SIMPLEX.

It could also depend on the season, locality, and year (e.g. was there a drought? was there a car shortage on the east coast?) Stock car supply was notoriously too much, and then too little, and

I took that photo two days ago... It is under a flat car (I believe a wooden logging car, but possibly the single steel car in the string. The cars were built by/for The Pacific Lumber Company, and

Hello all, I didn't review the previous discussion on this topic, but the material presented this time around has shown that practices varied from place to place, year to year. I commented that I'd

I have posted on my blog a description of the modeling I did to complete the 2010 Cocoa Beach "Shake 'n' Take" project, a kitbashed DT&I gondola. Included in the blog post is a link to Google Docs

A completely different animal, Jon. The Simplex cast steel bolster was introduced around the turn of the 20th century by the Simplex Railway Appliance Co., which had disappeared by the early

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: The prototype examples appeared to show that on Santa Fe, home road cars were substituted for foreigns for onward movements, and on UP the original cars were used for

I take this comment back. PFE used it and being lazy looking up the references in Tony's book, I don't remember what he called it. Do know I used one on a model. Jon Miller For me time

To add to the discussion, back in 1989, a co-worker overheard me talking about my interest in railroads, and shared the following. (Information from Glen D. Lowe, July 12, 1989. Glen worked in the

While I can't disagree with this I looked at a Red Ball/Cape Line catalog and they have a Simplex High Speed truck. Very strange looking and I don't think I've ever seen a picture of one in use.

For those of you coming to Cocoa Beach, I will have my scanner with me to scan some materials related to the "Westrail" and "Dennis Storzek, Modelmaker" lines of kits that one of you is bringing.

Earlier in this thread, someone said that we'd discussed this and had determined that the usual procedure was to transfer stock car loads to a home road car, and send the off-line car back home

I have appreciated people's opinions on my question about surgical cutting instruments and they will help me in my shopping around. One primary reason for asking is that I am always interested in what

Thanks Bruce An excellent answer to my question. And strengthens my thinking with regard to resharpening Xacto blades. Which I have done successfully. But have no experience with scalpels. And with

At the IRM Pullman Library, we are in the final stages of transferring Pullman - Standard freight car correspondence files that occasionally might have a general drawing and track the changes from