Bob Hundman is currently working with the C&O Historical Society updating his older drawings and adding new ones. Bob still lives out west. Bob doesn't use his PC much if at all. He still uses vellum

Folks, Is ther a railroad bridges group? I am looking for Pere Marquette Rr/Rwy bridge images for a future project. Thanks, Al Kresse

Great find! Al Kresse

The C&O's designs were either based on Evans Products' in Plymouth, Michigan, or their Wyoming Shops outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The baseline for their evaluations were the spring-loaded PRR sk

Solid top areas had pull-down feed bins I believe? Al Kresse

C&O had them also . . . . Mr Garstang, later Master Mechanic for C&O helped in their design. Al Kresse

Thanks, Al Kresse

Single door car. Might be Auto or Vehicle parts???? Only guessing. Al Kresse

The ORERs say how long the cars were: 36-ft long. Most likely for Buick City in Flint. Ford and others demanded larger cars with wider side doors. Taller 40-ft cars were already becoming the norm for

Not to be picky but 10 miles or 15 miles is a local charge and would be different than long haul . . . many times two local runs say from mine to the yard and the yard to the customer. Al Kresse

C&O had them with 25-ft and 35-ft long wells and Buckeye 125-ton 6-wheel trucks. Al Kresse [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

C&O Archives, Standards drawings has standard DECK SINGLE TRACK girder plate span drawings starting 50-ft in length. One thing to be careful of is that the ties are closer-spaced together and are thic

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Would they drop off partial car fulls? Oil would come in 55 gallon drums by box cars? Al Kresse

I have a couple questions about the Evans Products "Quick Loaders" moveable bulkheads used inside box cars in the late-50's and early-60's. 1) I assume they were equipped with two stowable bulkheads p

My draft put into a joint C&O/N&W/VGN "Battleship Gons" book never got finished because of never rationalized "discussions" over Modeler's-slang and industry engineering terminology, like class 100-to

Dennis, How ironic that I just found a floor plan sketch (Chf Engineer's x-drawings (8.5 x 11) to support AFE's) of the third pump house on the branchline. It was being replaced with a new one with fi

Thanks Dennis! I assume it was more difficult to get going than starting a pot-belly stove? One the branchline there were section houses near two of them and the third had a steam locomotive attendant

While researching a C&O branchline operations and trying to determine what types of open top cars were used to ship iron ore, I ran across a 1920's sketch used for requesting funds for upgrading a pum

Hey there Garth, I forgot about Sanborn Maps. Seeing Jeff's pix I now know what to look for in other yard area photos. Al From: "Garth Groff sarahsan@... [STMFC]" To: STMFC@...