A question about grain doors, both wood and paper. Were they installed on both sides of the car or just the side they were loading? ====================== They would be needed on the other side to kee

In regards to the granger donnybrook, could a railroad's being considered a granger be determined by having a large percentage of it's income earned by grain haulage be the way of determining as to we

============ I don't disagree with this, but it should be taken in a broad context. If a historical fact has not yet been documented in the fromal academic manner, then the source may be a person or p

My previous post was a quick response to the original question. Now, having read the other responses, a feww brief comments. One ought to be very careful about using railfan publications as authentic

I hope Mike doesn't take this as too far off topic, but it seems to me worth discussing because it is what we are doing. Let's begin with the realization that "real" history isn't defined by the forma

Posted by: "Thomas Baker" In interviews I have had with the operators of grain elevators on the old Chicago Great Western in Minnesota, I walked away with the impression that the grain elevators would

If you review a lot of the literature I believe you will find that the term “granger” roads was applied to railroads that had most of their trackage in that area of IL, MO, KA, NE, IA, WI, MN, SD, ND.

For an easy to model bulk loading facility that beats anything I've seen yet. Malcolm Laughlin, Editor 617-489-4383 New England Rail Shipper Directories 19 Holden Road, Belmont, MA 02478

In all my times of association with the car distribution process, I don't recall ever seeing an order that said anything about type of sheathing. That was not part of the readily available information

Tony's call on 1960 as the "watershed year" makes sense to me. The trivia debate about a handful of cars in 1958 and a big handful in 1959 doesn't really matter. It was in 1960 that the big buildup be

Andy says that tri-levels were introduced in 1960. how does that reconcile with the initial use of multi-levels in 1958. Were the early cars all bi-levels ? Another kind of car used on NYC and other r

Posted by: "Kurt Laughlin" In 1961 there were still over 11,000 XAR/XMR "auto device" cars listed in the ORER for Class I RRs. =========== That doesn't tell us anything about how they were being used.

Posted by: "Jack Burgess" > This subject seem to be at the end of the groups time period I could fill in a lot of detail on that but will have to keep it brief because of the era problem. BTW, is 1960

I didn’t have time to get in the discussion on Saturday about the grading/classification and cleaning of box cars, but I’d like to make a few comments on the subject. These are based on memories of my

Posted by: "Russ Strodtz" Don't really know what you are looking for. Since virtually any 40', 6' door car could be used for bulk grain I don't see where there would be any external markings. The larg

Andy Miller wrote: "But its track plan is different (although it could be earlier or later than the plan we first saw), and the building is shown a circular not elliptical." ================= The Port

Posted by: "James Eckman" I apologize if the grading system seemed like a slam. I meant it as a tool for upgrading or selecting good models. Given two cars that you need that cost the same, the A woul

Posted by: "James Eckman" > Why subscribe to STMFC if you didn't want build accurate prototype cars? Since the emphasis of this group is standard gauge of a relatively modern era, interchange is a fac

If you want a more descriptive name, on the B&M they were called public delivery tracks. Malcolm Laughlin, Editor 617-489-4383 New England Rail Shipper Directories 19 Holden Road, Belmont, MA 02478