Or way car (caboose) storage, no longer used for that or cleaning tracks that sometimes were pressed into other service Tom Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Mystery to me box car Schuyler Larrabee wrote: They

Jim There are customers who want to unload out the top of the car for (perceived) safety reasons. If they have a rack to use during unloading, they don't have to be under the car at all, except for st

Dave Remember that as you are looking at a photo of a Class V car that you are looking at the jacket head and not the tank head. The shape of the tank head is "semi-ellipsoidal" in general but the 193

Steam engines burned No. 6 fuel oil, also called "Bunker C." The other constituants of crude oil make it too valuable to burn, although at one time some may have neen consumed that way. As comparison:

These have been used for sulfur unloading also. Because sulfur is so heavy, cars were easily overloaded and before the railroad would move them, the load must be reduced. The system is pretty simple:

All Don't bet that the answer is not that it was cheaper. Here we sit in 2011; 30 years after the Staggers Act which partially deregulated the railroads. Don't believe that the railroads could put rat

Is there prototype information available on this model also? Tom, Bartlesville

Remember that hair felt was used as tank car insulation. If you decide to ship hides in box cars, use the oldest cars in your fleet. Use lots of red/rust weathering around the side sills and on the tr

PR is indeed probably too new...I didn't think through my response sufficiently. I believe the RA that you mentioned is correct Tom Wouldn't Progressive Railroading be far too recent for the purposes

Either "Railway Age" or "Progressive Railroading" publishes this information once a year. Tom, Bartlesville Subject: [STMFC] Re: Freight Car Statistics <bierglaeser@...> wrote: cars in interchange? Ge

Clark I switched the rendering plant track at Wilson's packing haouse in Oklahoma City the summer of 1972. If you need tallow cars, you need the model the smell also. Tallow takes old cars on their la

Dave. I have been in the "real" industry since 1973. There were no facilities in the Topeka Wheel Shop to heat freight, passenger or diesel wheel sets...they were and are all cold press fit. I doubt t

I'd like to join Tom Thomas N. Birkett, P.E. Southwestern Tank Line, LLC 918 261 1993