Jake I’m with you. Upon seeing the close up my first thought was an ink stamper. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Randy lots of sand pits in Iowa. The car was coming from Des Moines. Des Moines has two rivers, and lots of sand and gravel pits. I suspect the car was loaded in the Des Moines area. The bigger questi

Elden, the HM and HT are open hoppers. The GS & GBS are gons. The LO is one of the MSTL covered hoppers used for company sand. They only had 10 of these cars. Also note that Clark has typed an extra 0

General Sand coming out of an open pit was exposed to the weather. So an open car, gon or hopper was the norm. Only specialty sands that were in bags or barrels would warrant a boxcar. Doug Harding ww

Garth the photo Clark posted is on the MSTL, along the Story City branch out of Marshalltown. Location is northern Story County. I live about 15 miles from McCallsburg. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.

I have made a temporary one out of a 3cube moving box (18”x18”) and a 20” box fan with a 20” furnace filter. Open the box at both ends, place the filter against the fan so the fan draws air through th

Claus, PFE had a very small fleet of meat reefers, about 300. Not at home so can’t check the book as to numbers or era. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Claus that is a two compartment tank car, one large and one small compartment. You can tell by the rivet lines around the tank. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Joe here is one from 1966. Not the 50s, but it appears the car dates from that era or earlier. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

It appears to be an open wall made of cubby holes for parts. A pile of parts or debris is visible in the shadow. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Clover House still makes and sells dry transfers. http://cloverhouse.com/Cart/ Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Don I suspect Clark means this model, or one of the other offerings from moloco trains https://www.molocotrains.com/products/res51001-undec-kit-pcf-50-rbl-plt-b-10-0-offset-door?variant=31098309410921

Dennis you are correct the tank looks like the one from Jordon. But the original question had been out what kind of truck, which I thought Tim was responding. Just to keep this focus on modeling attac

The Jordan trucks were Mack Bulldogs. This is not a Mack bulldog. Might be a Fageol, predecessor to Peterbilt. But I’m not sure. Parco was purchased by Sinclair in the early 30s. The town changed it’s

I meant to say since most meat from the Midwest was shipped east, I would guess those branch houses were all located in the east. And I agree with Tony regarding other commodities in meat reefers. Mea

Brian most meat heading to NYC westside traveled via the Erie. If that helps. Here is what I have for Kingan locations, it is not complete. State City City Plant Branch Alabama Dothan Kingan and Compa

My understanding is that Bragdon’s has an adhesive mixed in which is activated by pressure. Rubbing the powder generates the required pressure. To my knowledge no other weathering powders have any kin

IIRC The saying came about because the car would hold 40 men or 8 horses. Useful information for the military planners needing to move men and materials. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

The 1935 date is because that is the last report the ORER publisher received from the Granite City Steel Company. You will often see dates in reports being different from the publication date. Doug Ha

According to http://www.nakina.net/other/report/report.html GCSX Granite City Steel Co. 7/1930-1/1941; 1/1943-4/1961 (not listed) Granite City Steel cars are not listed in the 1943 ORER. Doug Harding