Bulk cement was also shipped in boxcars. Track was laid to the construction site for big projects. Here is a blog about the building of the Coulee Dam. Scroll down Thursday, December 12, 2019 for phot

Or just shave down the match sticks, just as the real loggers shaved down poles till they fit. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Bob, they are not very big files, so they may not be quality prints. I just printed the 23140 on 11x17, it is a little pixilated but you can certainly get your lettering placements. But the small lett

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To follow up on these photos, I posted to the MSTL list and Roger Ward responded: The 2 cars on top of ice deck were MSTL refrigerator. The old cars got changed out. Put 2 new cars up there. Retired 2

Here are two photos I have of 23000 series CGW boxcars. Very different P/L schemes. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

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Terrific, I’ve been looking for a photo of the Marshalltown Ice Deck for some time. In the photo we are looking south. The buildings in the distance are south of Linn Creek, and are the Western Grocer

Actually the tankcars are marked Jacob E Decker JEDX 50-73, leased from North American Car Co. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

I do have one photo of a HyGrade reefer, circa 1929. The attached photo is of the loading area of the Decker meat plant in Mason City, from a Decker Brochure. The reefer with the prominent “Decker” on

This is what I have on HyGrade the company. I do not have anything on their reefers, and all my reference material is packed for an upcoming move. Hygrade Food Products dates back to the 1800s. To Cen

The replacement depot in Guthrie Center was a Rock Island combine. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

True there were grain un-loaders as Dan describes. Photos attached. Usually installed are very large terminal grain ports, where time was crucial, ie to load a waiting ship. Or where a large number of

Good photo showing the use of a “power” shovel. Note the pulley on the lower edge of the photo and the man holding the cable used to pull the shovel, via an overhead winch or motor. There should be tw

Having watched barges and tows on the Mississippi River, I know there are winches on the barge, used to tighten all lines. There are also large binders used by the crew to tighten lines that are not d

The load looks like sugar beets to me. It is quite possible the car got offline and was “borrowed” during the beet season. Ohio raised a lot of sugar beets, so the car did not have to travel too far o

Charlie, Google books is your friend. https://books.google.com/books?id=YhUlAAAAMAAJ&hl=en This page is from the July 1904 ORER and shows 2 locomotives and 27 freight cars. Doug Harding www.iowacentra

Yes, it’s a three way switch, with one leg being used in a crossover. Commercial component readily available to model that trackwork, in most scales. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

In a conversation with Dave Grandt, when I was writing a review of the kit for RMC (Jan 2002), he told me the two kits were based on oil jobbers he saw and photographed in Colorado, New Mexico and Tex

That is the kit. The photo looks like the same photo Grandt Line used. When I spoke with the San Juan people at the Narrow Gauge Convention in Sacramento, their intention was to return the kit to prod

Here is the best I can offer. All have a small pulley outside the car door, which routes the pulling cable. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Nice shot showing power shovels in use. But even better is the modification on the grain door behind the men to fit a 7’ foot opening. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org