Preferred Movement Waybill

This text below is from the Station Agent's Blue Book: A Practical Reference Book for those Actively Engaged in Station Work by Otto Bernard.Kirkpatrick, Kirkpatrick Publishing Company, 1928.

Link: https://tinyurl.com/yyr4xhpv

Individual pages from this book may be download as text.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

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Preferred Movement Waybill. The "Freight Waybill—Preferred Movement" is the form of waybill recommended by the Railway Accounting Officers Association, and it is used by most carriers in waybilling perishable shipments. It is printed on pink paper, and while as to form it is exactly like the ordinary freight waybill, its distinctive color, and the preferred-movement notation, indicates that the shipment should receive prompt and special attention. 601. Some carriers whose requirements are not large do not provide a special form of preferred-movement waybill, but use the ordinary freight waybill for perishable shipments and indorse it "Perishable" or some equally appropriate symbol to call special attention to the  importance of the shipment covered.

In addition to Gene Deimling's post on skeleton log cars, here are two more images.  Photographed in Olympia. WA circa early 1950s.

Brian Leppert
Carson City, NV

The New England Prototype Meet is less than two weeks away. It is
Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1. There is a program Thursday night
for early arrivers and about a dozen layout open houses on Sunday.
Barry Cone will again open his train wonderland to meet attendees.

Today we posted on our website, www.nerpm.org, a tentative schedule
with full clinic descriptions. Please note the hands-on clinics.

Here is a direct link to the schedule:
http://nerpm.org/uploads/7/0/2/0/70207725/2019_nerpm_tentative_clinic_list.pdf

You can register online until 5 p.m. Tuesday, or at the door.

The meet is at the Farmington Marriott, 15 Farm Springs Road, Farmington, Conn.

If you need additional information, please contact me at neprotomeet@gmail.com.

Thank you again,
Dave Owens

...not the load, but the car is:
SP 143093, Class F-70-10, SP Sacramento-built 1954, all-welded
(Ref: Southern Pacific Freight Cars Vol 3, Tony Thompson)

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Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA
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The car being loaded:
SP 63084, Class A-50-4, SSC-built 1921;
rebuilt with wider doors and steel ends circa-1938, type XAR.
(Ref: Southern Pacific Freight Cars Vol 3, Tony Thompson)

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Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA
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These photos are from the Jeff Stein Collection. He wrote, "These four SP “reefers” we’re built by the Ensign Manufacturing Co. of Huntington, West Virginia, in the late 1800s.

The Ensign Manufacturing Co. eventually became the American Car and Foundry Co. (ACF), which is still building railcars today."

https://tinyurl.com/y4o8yf2j

https://tinyurl.com/y6x2y9j4

https://tinyurl.com/y5xl5n4f

https://tinyurl.com/yyq69r22 (Morgan's Louisiana & Texas R.R.)

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

The UP B-50-24 and B-50-27 classes (including OWR&N and OSL) are noted as actively being
relettered in the 1963 ORER i.e. it was not yet completed by that time.

A good chance to reletter them came in 1962-1963 when the GRL (LD LMT + LT WT) numbers
for ALL freight cars had to be updated.

Tim O'Connor

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Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts

https://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-few-words-in-praise-of-canopy-glue.html

unfortunately the term “canopy glue” covers several products from various manufacturers, and they are NOT all the same product

    Like I said, more than several, like lots and lots.  Sticky glue belongs in this same family.  They all appear to be variations on PVA glues!

-- 
Jon Miller
For me time stopped in 1941
Digitrax  Chief/Zephyr systems, 
SPROG, JMRI User
NMRA Life member #2623
Member SFRH&MS

Two Paul Brown photos.
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA

A side view of the same load:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Magnolia_Petroleum_Company_Smokestack_Transportation_%28AC604-A07-013%29_%2814091548036%29.jpg

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA