According the info below the photo, the car is a Plymouth. And it appears to have a 1935 license plate. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

The Pledge/Future floor finish product is 100% clear acrylic. No need to thin for airbrushing. It can also be brushed on, good for small areas. Clean up with water. It provides a gloss finish perfect

Sorry to hear this. I was privileged to be a guest in the Anspach homes in both Sacramento and Okoboji (his summer home in Iowa). And I had Denny as a guest in two different homes to see progress on m

Sinclair has two refineries in Wyoming, Sinclair (was Parco) and Casper. Headquarters is in Salt Lake City. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Here is what I have on the Ottumwa Boxcar Loader, built in Ottumwa, Iowa. Iowa at the turn of the 1900s had a thriving coal industry. W.E. Hunt, of The Ottumwa Iron Works, & Henry Phillips, of Phillip

Andy look under “other stuff” at the top of the page. There you will find a contact link. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Notice the “grain doors” on the middle boxcar. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

What caught my eye was the rounded corners on the reefer doors. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

It appears the roof walk is the same color as the roof, with some body color overspray on the overhanging end of the roof walk Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

My understanding is that National Car Company was Fruit Grower’s answer for meat reefers. Wikipedia states: In February, 1928 FGE formed the National Car Company as a subsidiary to service the meat tr

Bruce I would agree, 18”. I believe that was a standard ladder width. The car number could be used to find the car in an ORER listing or full photo of a car from the same series, that could off more d

MSTL boxcar 9511, built in 1906 by ACF. My records show one of a 1000, but the 1907 ORER shows 895 cars. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Don that is not a normal size flatcar. The group of people to the right are standing next to a similar car. The deck is about at the lady’s knee, ie 18” high. Those rails may be 36” apart, making the

I would second the suggestion the gons contain forms for concrete work. Look like larger versions of the forms I remember using when pouring foundation walls. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Rob, most of the major meat packers owned soap making companies, so byproducts were shipped to those plants. Or they were sold to third party concerns who had use for them. Nothing was wasted. Nationa

I can’t answer that question. My interests focused on what cars came in and out of a slaughter house, and what did they contain or what was their function, mostly so I could fill out waybills. Additio

Oh you will regret. A prime use for hog urine was cleaning lanolin from raw wool. Think of that the next time you wear a wool sweater. It is also used in fertilizer. Most blood was dried before shippi

Claus thank you. You are correct that is a Decker tank car, used for various fats, like lard, and for blood and hog urine. The tank cars were gone by the early 30s, replaced by leased units. You cite

To cite an example of a retouched photo. Attached is a photo scanned from a company brochure published by the Decker & Sons Meat Company, circa 1930. The photo shows the loading area, but what stands

No dimensional data, no reporting marks, no other required lettering for interchange service. Very likely a photo or negative that had lettering applied. Was a common technique for advertising photos.