If Ken McCorry, is on the list please get in touch off list Looking for details on petroleum tanks Ron Christensen

My Uncle and his son were Milwaukee engineers at the plant.About 1953 I road the switcher with my uncle. They also used a board with handles at the back side what a man used to guide the board and mov

The name is now Penford. The factory is in operation. They had a set back as they were flooded out by the great Cedar Rapids flood a few years ago. This took out the bridge also. Was the sweetener use

Don’t knowmuch about sugar or soda pop, one is sweet and the other is good. In the1950s the Milwaukee served the Penick & Ford Plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,with boxcars of corn in, starch and sweetener

I have used Dap clear silicon adhesive to stick plastic miniature switches to homemade metal snap switch machines for well over 10 years and have never had a failure. I think clamping the items togeth

That is an interesting change as Bob and I spoke several years ago about C&NW articles and at the time he gave the society verbal permission to use any C&NW article needed for the CNWHS Modeler. Per y

I have lost Gary Frost's E mail if he is on this Yahoo list please get in touch with me. Ron Christensen

A new CNWHS Modeler is available now. The articles are; Building a 1970s Grain Boxcar Fleet: Part 6 Modeling Former M&StL Cars Essential Businesses: Part 7 LPG Dealers High Pressure Tank Cars Ammonia

Working on train graphs for the layout has opened some questions. Making a graph of the actual minutes a trains move from station to station is easy, changing that to more real distance and time is di

Vol. 9 #3 Scratching building a CNWtrailer depot by Dennis Eggert Essential Business part 6,coal dealers, with Lloyd Keyser, Gene Green photos and, Dan Holbrook’s waybills L.C.L . Freight house, with

I have found a Nov 1939 Ron

I may have some that old I will get back Ron

If you have an interest in the old Railroad magazine I have some I would part with Ron Christensen

A new CNWHS Modeler is on line Minneapolis and St Louis, Winthrop Roundhouse CGW X29 Hide Car Essential Businesses Lumber Yards and lumber movement - Part5 Pickle Salting Stations L.C.L. Operations Pa

The new CNWHS modeler,on line today. http://www.cnwhs.org/modeling.htm Modeling C&NW 800Series Coaches in S Scale The Des Moines &Central Iowa: A Capsule History EssentialBusinesses-Part 4: Oil Distri

Some time ago there were messages on the movement of lumber. One was from Greg Martin. I'm doing some work on this subject for the CNWHS Modeler and would like to get in touch with people that have in

A new CNWHS Modeler is online In this issue; In Vol. 8 Issue 3: • C&NW Spent Grain Boxcar • Gogebic Range Lines Prototype • Diamond Depots • Essential Businesses Part 3 • “The Potato Yard” • L.C.L. Op

The CNWHS Modeler is on line now, with articles on grain elevators,pulp wood cars, stock cars, the Deadwood station and M&StL switch engines. http://www.cnwhs.org/modeling.htm Ron Christensen

The CNWHS has a number of tapes what they would like to seewhat they are. The one on my desk is named R#9 Freeze 10-29-87 Railroad. It is on a Sony BCT-20K BETACAN tape. I know this is beyond this gro

Thanks all I'm building a Sparrow Point kit The screen is metal and seems to be too large. There are much finer screens available. I just found the picture of #130539 at the B&O wreck. The car end scr