John, with regard to your interesting observations and speculations on paint, the development of synthetic enamels was, indeed, a major breakthrough. Prior to that, railroad paint shops mixed their

Richard Hendrickson wrote HO kits are available for SP boxcars: B-50-1/2/4/6/9/12/12A/13/14/15/16/18/19/20/21/22/23/24/25/26/27/28/29/30 That should be easy enough to remember! ;o) Now if we could

Richard - Yes, there must have been some improvement in paints in the early '50's, as autos went from somber maroons, dark blues and greens, cream, light gray, or black, to brighter colors. (Period

PS - I had thought it was copper oxide that made the Pullman Green, too, but Arthur Dubin in Kalmbach's Pullman Painting Guide said that Pullman combined the yellow of rural dirt with the black of the

"Stafford F. Swain" <sswain@...> wrote: Indeed, the conventional wisdom among modern-day followers of the NYC is that this was a wartime economy move. Black returned to NYC freights cars

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard forgets what I know he is well acquainted with: the ORIGINAL scheme for the Overnight cars was all black with orange lettering and striping, used before WW II.

Quibble, quibble. Of COURSE I know what the "original" overnight scheme was, but it was never applied to B-50-24s. My point was to differentiate the original scheme applied to those cars from the

You guys might know what the ORIGINAL scheme was, prior to WWII, but I don't. MDC offers their SS 40 foot 7 panel Pratt truss car in an overnight black scheme, and while I know the car itself is too

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Rutland1950.xls Uploaded by :

As a favor to Jeff English, I included the Rutland data in some copying I did this afternoon -- transfered it to my standard excel format for this kind of data and posted it to the files list here at

"Dave & Libby Nelson" <muskoka@...> wrote: Thank you. Um, I'll let you know when I find some time to study it. Besides the holiday busy times, for the last couple of days my ISP seems

Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: AFAIK, the only NY wineries that bring in CA wine are the larger corporate operations such as Taylor. There is a considerable wine industry

Jeff, Perhaps New York wine no longer moves by rail today (or even much California wine for that matter, except perhaps from mega-producers like Gallo), but at one time Taylor and Great Western did a

Thought I'd add a description of the material I was working with yesterday at Stanford: 1) Carload Waybill Analysis, 1950 - State to state distribution of Products of Forests. 2) Carload Waybill

Jeff English wrote (defensively): Been there, done that. Some are, indeed, acceptable (barely). And, as I certainly haven't had the opportunity to try all of them, it's entirely possible that there

There were PFE cars dedicated to this service (That is, labelled "Banana Service") between L.A. Harbor and Vernon, a tiny industrial city near the southeast corner of central Los Angeles.

Dave Nelson writes: lower for the other 59%? I'm also curious about bauxite. There are photos of a bauxite train...loaded in box cars no less...going west over Sherman Hill in the 50s. Wonder what

Major aluminum plants were constructed on the Columbia River ( near The Dalles for one) to support WWII aircraft production...lots of electricity required

Mike Brock wrote: Mike, in the 1950s some Bauxite was mined in the southeastern US, but the most important source was Jamaica, with Jamaican Bauxite being transported by ship to Gulf Coast ports.