-----Original Message----- From: 'Mike Brock' brockm@... Jeff Aley notes: "It was the same WestVaCo, eventually sold to Food Machinery Corp (FMC)." There were, however, two [ at least ] Westvac

Could also be a wreck repair. Rich Orr Rich Orr wrote > The Shadow Keystone was first applied to the X48 (PS-1) in February 1954 when constructed. > The P2 8-54 is not a paint date it is a reweigh dat

The Shadow Keystone was first applied to the X48 (PS-1) in February 1954 when constructed. Beginning mid year 1954 it was being applied to all newly constructed cars and all repaints. The P2 8-54 is n

Greg, Are you thinking these are Elsey trucks PRR class 2DF17? They were applied to 75 X38. Rich Orr Tim, I can't recall the truck name but I have seen it before. I was thinking on PRR X38 but I haven

Also, the H39a (barely iwithin the time of this list) built at Juniata received Crown trucks off scraped H21's. The H39 were built by outside vendors and the H39a were all home built at Juniata. The o

Gene, Given that Hercules gun powders were for the most part double based (combination of nitrocellulose and nitroglygerin) any of the chemicals needed to manufacture those explosives. Their military

Gene, Yes. You will find this same situation with other PRR cars. It resulted from accounting procedures. Blocks of numbers were assigned to lines west of Pittsburgh vs lines east of Pittsburgh and so

Based on descriptions in the ORER, the lone G21 had its ends fixed prior to December 1927 which is the earliest ORER I have and the bottom was changed from drop to tight between November 1929 and Febr

Elden, National Lead had a plant beside Heinz along River Road. They manufactured Dutch Boy paint at that location. This may have been set off for delivery to National Lead. The car appears to be on t

Bill, As usual, I will be breaking 4 packs of the same PL. I am undecided about the variety packs but am leaning towards not breaking those. There is too high a risk of being "stuck" with a large numb

Andy, This is not entirely correct. I spoke with IM last Friday to place an order and asked what was going on with RC as I have a client who wants a number of undec RC kits. I was told 1) all the N-sc

Eric, This photo appears to me to be of the P&LE yard during the widening of the Smithfield Street Bridge in 1911 and taken from the bridge looking towards Carson St. See the map at http://images.libr

What is the name of the road in the boxcar left side of the photo and what is the framed area to the right of the herald? Rich Orr 715.07554.CP - Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh - Hi

Bill, Thistothat.com suggests using Reltek B-45, B-482 or B-45th epoxy for gluing most of the engineering plastics. keep in mind this is an ad for Reltek. Rich Orr

Bill, From wikipedia so take with a grain of salt most common engineering plastics Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) Nylon 6 Nylon 6-6 Polyamides (PA) Polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) Polycarbonat

In 1952 the PRR was carrying live poultry on train FW-8 in block 5 as it was reclassed at Enola destined for the Live Poultry Terminal in Long Island City. Which specific cars I cannot verify. FW-8 or

Blowing up the photo the reweigh date is 3-53 the location P37 which is one of the scales at PRR Juniata shops supporting the supposition that these were built by the PRR Rich Orr

Since those are PRR company photos I would venture that the conversion was done by the PRR Rich Orr

By the early 50's much of domestic use of coal had switched to anthracite to decrease air pollution. To that end you would need RDG LV CRP CNJ D&H DL&W L&NE cars for this purpose. While the PRR did se

They are a separate part in all three of Tichy's brake rig kits and they are a separate part in Bowser's KC brake set. AFAIK no one sells just the clevis. Richard Orr