The Train Shed Cyc No 36 has a number of loading diagrams (1919) incliding telephone poles. CJ Riley

So right. In 1965 I bought and gutted my first house in Pittsburgh. Built as a brewery company house around 1890 and far from the Pennsy main line. No matter, my wife and I spent several weeks looking

Esteemed steel mill modeler Dean Freytag has a connection to the company and is noted for somewhat fanciful kit bashed models. Perhaps DFG stands for Dean Freytag Gondola? CJ Riley

--- On Fri, 5/1/09, Gene Green <bierglaeser@...> wrote <Kurt, I'm not sure but probably only the 1932 vintage car. I sold all my Cycs dated after 1950. Darn! I'll search for the RMC article. Do

--- On Wed, 4/29/09, Jon Miller <atsf@...> wrote ; <Interesting theory! I was born 1942!> Me too, and that's the year I model.CJ Riley

I would have to modify my use of "gob". It was the material cleaned out of the coal at the tipple and was hauled away to a dump. CJ

Thanks Stephan I should have remembered that. As a WM fan, that bit of info has turned up before. CJ Riley --- On Thu, 3/5/09, sparachuk <sparachuk@...> wrote CJ: Possibly self-guarding frogs

While I'm sorry for you Andrew, It does please me that not the only dummie. CJ Riley

While most of us have been cut by catching sharp things tht are falling toward our laps, only the truly foolish among us have caught a falling, plugged in soldering iron. Mother nature has decreed, in

Thanks for the help, guys. My interest in older railroading kept me from thinking about these. CJ Riley