The SFRD reefer ladders have the curved end in them not the boxcar ladders. Rich Orr

mea culpa my bad I reversed the effect Rich Orr

Calcium carbonate to treat water. Much of the water available along the PRR mainline was hard which cause a buildup of deposits in the boiler tubes. Track pans especially had water treatment facilitie

Steve, are you sure UTLX purchased these cars? The LINX reporting marks now belong to GE Railcar Services and are part of the NATX North American Tank Car Lines Rich Orr

To orient that for those not familiar with the area. PNC park is now on the right side of the photo and Heinz field on the left. Most of the area in the photo is now parking lot. Streets and North sho

The Heinz Corporation photograph records from 1861 to 2001 are at the Senator John Heinz history center Pittsburgh. The photographs have not all been digitized http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/detre-

The Pennsylvania state archives has the following Pressed Steel Car records Manuscript Groups UNDER CONSTRUCTION - Penn Central Railroad Collection, ca. 1835-1968 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company Vic

These are PRR R7 class cars sold to FGEX when it was formed. PRR drawings are available from the PRRT&HS archives Drawings are C-40633, C-48069, C-65591 This is the link to the order form http://prrth

Time 1953. I have the information on required reweighing of box cars, stock cars, and reefers. I have searched the files and conversations of both this group and the archives. I cannot find the reweig

Ditto Rich Orr

I am taking orders and will break the 4 packs. contacted me off list at suvcworr@... My price is $35 for single car and $135 for 4 pack plus priority mail. Pennsylvania residents need to add appro

Feed troughs. Rich Orr Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

In addition to what Bruce said, you need to know the time frame and what Canada was permitting to be imported from the US. Were the crops quarantined? Canada did quarantine many US crops. If they were

I use Remington Rem Oil. It comes in small bottles, spray and wipes. Rich Orr

use gun oil with Teflon lubricates, drives out moisture removes oil from fingers and adds protective coating Rich Orr

And you can carry the reality even further by having off staging storage for those cars that might only show up once a year. For example, the Elkland Leather tank car carrying spent tanic acid may onl

Bill, There were only 2 PRR F28 flats. FNa - 27 F25 - 26 F33 - 16 FN - 10 all the others were less than 10 Rich Orr

Tom, Dennis is not on this list as his modeling interests are a time which has not yet occurred as far as this list is concerned. He, in fact, did provide the 1988 date which then confirmed with Dick.

As of a few months ago the business was still for sale. He has stock of some models and decals. He has all the dies. He was in discussion with a major car producer however their primary interest was i

Ben, I used the term in reference to the fact that those individual(s) had the opportunity to tell Dick that there were issues with the cars but did not. In fact, told him they were good to go and the