Standard Oil of California,Chevron and that a Flying A next door to the Chevron. The photo is out on the Mohave desert. Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote: And for anyone modeling tank cars

I do not know if this will help, but this is what I am planning to use on the control panels for my Santa Fe, Ottawa Jct. The panel will be on the sky board behind the tower. This does not answer the

Bruce, I think you can find info about the one at Rock Island, IL and the one at Fort Navajo, AZ by using Google. --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet

It is just west of Flagstaff,AZ, Navajo Ordinance Depot the link below will bring up a map of the area. And my mistake it is Camp Navajo. http://terraserver-usa.com/printimage.aspx?S=12&T=2&X=530&Y=48

There also use to be one at Wingate, NM, Fort Wingate Army Ordinance Depot was off of route 66 in western NM railhead by ATSF. This fort close at the end of the cold war. MIchael ---------------------

Hi, How about the CGW, C&S, IC, TP&W, M&StL and GM&O gn3397 <heninger@...> wrote: Mr. Ostresh, As I understand it, the term "granger railroad" rather generically refers to a railroad th

The TP&W had 95% of it track in IL right through the major corn belt of IL How does it rank as a marginal granger road. In about every town that it went through it went by the local Grange Hall. Micha

Were there any wood sided REA refeers left in service by the late 50's, early 60's? Any time I can find a photo of a passenger train the head end cars were not the focal point of the picture. Michael

I have used tooth paste on a Q-tip, the whiting type works the best and do not add water. If it has to be rubbed for awhile it might leave that area polished, but I aways use Dual coat to finish a mod

Not only does newspaper printing use a lot of ink, it also used a lot of paper. I use to be a diesel mechanic for a large truck leasing company (1980s) and one of their accounts was a paper reclaiming

In the 1930's and 40's a lot of Carbon Black was bagged like cement and shipped in boxcars. I can post some pictures from the 40's if it would help. Since they are with out any railroad cars in the pi

The ink manufactures switch to vegetable oil after the 1970s oil crunch for newspapers. Michael Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: Todd Stearns wrote: Todd, you mean the VEHICLE is

Atlas has released a USRA double-sheathed box car rebuilt with steel sides. Two of the paint schemes are for the Santa Fe. I know the paint scheme is correct, but is the car itself correct for the San

Would this rule hold true for cars that came from Mexico? And how much traffic did come Mexico in the 40s and 50s? Michael Bishop Russ Strodtz <railfreightcars@...> wrote: Bruce, Interesting ru

Thank you for the info, it really helps. Living in the West/Southwest for most of my life I do not recall see that many Mexico railroad cars. The one place I did see them was at a shingle lumber mill

PFE sold 75 reefers to BAR in 1964. Michael George Hollwedel <proto.nscale@...> wrote: I see the message that it was post 1960. Fogs things up a bit for me! (1953) Anthony Thompson <thompson@sig

John, I have not model a scale house setup, but I have seen it done before. The modeler had used a postal scale kind of like a diet scale (sorry for the dirty 4 letter word). The scale was mounted in

How many railroads had on the sides of their frieght cars a map of their system in the 40's and 50's. Such as the Santa Fe map cars. I came up with the: Santa Fe, EJ&E and the Union Pacific. But I am

After seeing the photos of the Linde Gas boxcar model, I have a question as to how was this car used. I have one in N scale and I have seen the green car many years ago at the Union Carbide plant in C

James. On most of the ATSF boxcars that I have ever seen with the black anti skid paint on the roof the wood roof walks were brown. Michael James Mischke <jmischke@...> wrote: I just buil