Mel: On the Southern Pacific trains were blocked by destination, not by the load. Paul C. Koehler

Mel: What’s a no no? Can you site a Tariff or special instructions? Thanks Paul C. Koehler

All: Not true, MTS Brass car with the Aluminum tanks, I can run anywhere in a train and any length train. Three cars to over thirty, as you can see it’s first out in front of the caboose in this train

Bob: Its one of the best RPC’s. It’s a must have in my library. Paul C. Koehler

Tim: I believe you are thinking of Paul Jansen. He and his understudy Mike Davis painted most of the Westside Models for Dick Truesdale. Paul C. Koehler

Bill: Yes I have built several of them (great model). They are installed on my club’s layout; my memory tells me that they were over width for a load. With blade attached it would require an over widt

Bill: The overland RF&P caboose is correct for the PE. Check the Copeland PE book for pictures. Paul C. Koehler

Tom: To answer your question yes they did. I have a VSH tape that shows a Cab-Forward pulling a train up grade and eight cars behind the locomotive is an ACL vent door cars with the vent door in place

Jeff: No, taking a cut of cars to the interchange did not include the interchange of the caboose just the cars. What ever caboose the delivering RR used would return with the crew and locomotive. Paul

Tony: You are picking nits, the question was could they be used, and the answer is still yes no matter how few there were in PFE service. Paul C. Koehler

Maynard: How bout a PFE? Paul C. Koehler

Tony: In the Transcon WB tariff there was a provision for the use of three ice bunker reefers in lue of one boxcar. R.H. Donnelly big time printer of periodicals in the Chicago area used reefers all t

Bob: It all depends on the ownership of the reefer, if it was PFE, SFRD almost anything. But if owned by a packing house it was considered private. Paul C. Koehler

Bob: The City of LA had a Garbage truck yard on the east side of the Los Angeles River on the North side of Washington Blvd. That location would be ATSF served, if so the cars would be interchanged to

Jesus: You might want a mixture of railroad owned flats in your main train. When it came time to move equipment the military needed it right now so the railroads would send what ever they had close by

Al: It’s a railroad slang; the ICC would levy a heavy fine to any railroad that put into revenue service a car with a penalty defect. Generally a RR whose Carman found a car in their possession with m

Bob: I would suggest that the car had an ICC penalty defect and was being sent home for repairs or scraping. Paul C. Koehler From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Sunday, Oc

Greg: Picture was taken at Taylor Yard; car in question is spotted at the RIP track. As mentioned by Tim in all probability its diesel soot deposited while traveling through the many tunnels from Oreg

All: Most of the Barriger photos taken on the Southern Pacific it appears that he was given the courtesy of a Business car, the “Del Monte” and “Airslie” are two that can be identified. Paul C. Koehle

Bob: I for one have enjoyed the pictures you have posted. Keep doing it. If Scott doesn’t like it he can just hit delete or quit the group. Too many haters in this world, if you can’t say something ni