Schuyler, prototype photos were published in RPCyc #14. Photos are also available from Bob's photos. While I have a few in my collection, I am not sure I have any that I can "legally" post. Let me tak

It still amazes me how many have commented on this new freight car, without reading/understanding the comments that this is an early test shot and that much work still needs to be done before a final

Steve, a quick few minutes spent with Google turns up the following info: On the reporting marks RIRX: RIRX Rock Island Refining Co. 7/1930-7/1932 RIRX Rock Island Refining Co. (Duncan Oil Co., Inc.)

Pierre I recall when water based acrylics first came out, one manufacture set up a standard paint booth at shows with the "exhaust" piped into a 5 gallon bucket filled with filter material. A hole for

Pierre it is not difficult to build your own paint booth box. ½ plywood works very well, include a place to put a standard size furnace filter, and draw the air through the filter. The trick is gettin

I have not had trouble viewing the photos at the website, but when I haved save them to my computer I get the problem with a black image when using Windows picture viewer in XP or Vista, even though t

In reflecting upon the problems some are experience viewing photos at www.lariverrailroads.com I just thought the problem might also be with the Browser, so I tried several. Again this is with Windows

Denny, Tobin of Iowa was a separate entity set up by the folks in New York when they decided to expand. The purchased the existing Estherville Packing Plant in 1937 and the built new in Fort Dodge, ca

Interestingly Steve was a Cocoa Beach, where Jeff showed this photo in his clinic of RI photos. Apparently no one was able to make the connection. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

If anyone truly is interested, here's a hobby shop with a 3 car set of these cars http://www.modellbahnott.blogspot.com/ price is now $148.34, up just a little from the retail. Of course the cars are

Clark I sent a photo off list, showing a HyGrade Mather reefer sitting at the Decker loading dock, circa 1928. It is a down shot that clearly shows the roof and other details your friend seeks. Richar

Clark are you referring to the photos of UTLX 56816 being unloaded on the M&StL at Marietta MN in June 1954? The photo shows two tank cars next to a grain elevator, and the Pacific Grain Co coal sheds

Group I have posted the two photos that started this thread, per Clark's question. They can be found (when approved) in the photo album MSTL. The photos were taken by Vern Wigfield in June of 1954 in

A friend asked me: Do you know when the transition from wood end express cars to steel end express car took place? Also, how long were wood end cars allowed for interchange after the transition to ste

Note further the tank car in question is being unloaded at a Lever Brothers plant. Lever Brothers makes soap. Many Inedible (unfit for human consumption) fats/oils from slaughter houses were used to m

Tim, I think Bob meant to say "where the livestock was sold/changed ownership". Western roads often shipped livestock to major stockyard towns like Omaha and Chicago, where the slaughter houses were d

A gon full of dead cows, probably en-route to a rendering facility. Gons were commonly used to haul waste from slaughter houses, commonly known as offal or gun gons. The photo shows what may have been

Jeff thanks for the intro. Can't do the entire clinic, but let me share a few thoughts and attempt to answer some of Tim's questions. Livestock numbers changed drastically from 1900 to 1900 to 2000. I

Fenton, that is info about a crematorium is interesting. I have not seen any info about disposal of animals that did not survive the journey, that could be a very plausible explanation for the gon ful

Dale, in the steam era most livestock and meat reefers moved east, as that is where the population, ie consumers were located. Animals were raised in the west and mid-west, meat was consumed in the ea