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BAR Reefers
Quoting tim gilbert <tgilbert@...>: What makes you think it was experimental, Tim? It occurrs to me that it was around too long for that. Take care, Don Valentine
Quoting tim gilbert <tgilbert@...>: What makes you think it was experimental, Tim? It occurrs to me that it was around too long for that. Take care, Don Valentine
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BAR Reefers
Quoting George Hollwedel <georgeloop@...>: This is the car I just described in my previous post, George, and it is accurate until the 1950's. Take care, Don Valentine
Quoting George Hollwedel <georgeloop@...>: This is the car I just described in my previous post, George, and it is accurate until the 1950's. Take care, Don Valentine
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BAR Reefers
Quoting tim gilbert <tgilbert@...>: Thanks for bringing me up short here, Tim. It has been a long day but we are talking reefers, not insulated boxcars. I don't recall any of the reefers being
Quoting tim gilbert <tgilbert@...>: Thanks for bringing me up short here, Tim. It has been a long day but we are talking reefers, not insulated boxcars. I don't recall any of the reefers being
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BAR Reefer
Quoting George Hollwedel <georgeloop@...>: I'm not dead certain on the shift to orange paint for BAR reefers, George, but believe it was in the 1960's. Maine potatoes making it to California
Quoting George Hollwedel <georgeloop@...>: I'm not dead certain on the shift to orange paint for BAR reefers, George, but believe it was in the 1960's. Maine potatoes making it to California
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Modeling freight car distribution.
Quoting Bruce Smith <smithbf@...>: All right, Bruce, so I gave you a little ribbing on the lack of a Rutland car and the choice Ted suggested for the New Haven boxcars but a Rutland stock
Quoting Bruce Smith <smithbf@...>: All right, Bruce, so I gave you a little ribbing on the lack of a Rutland car and the choice Ted suggested for the New Haven boxcars but a Rutland stock
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GTW maple leaf herald
Quoting Richard Dermody <ddermody@...>: I'm embarrassed to admit a call was received on another matter from Stafford S. last evening and I never even thought to ask about this issue. OK, so the
Quoting Richard Dermody <ddermody@...>: I'm embarrassed to admit a call was received on another matter from Stafford S. last evening and I never even thought to ask about this issue. OK, so the
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GTW rebuild herald
Quoting HAWK0621@...: Thanks, Ed. That is five years earlier than I've been able to find evidence for the green maple leaves previously, which probably dates it back to at least 1948 for the CNR p
Quoting HAWK0621@...: Thanks, Ed. That is five years earlier than I've been able to find evidence for the green maple leaves previously, which probably dates it back to at least 1948 for the CNR p
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Modeling freight car distribution.
Quoting Ted Culotta <tculotta@...>: Horse hockey! The NH 36 ft. rebuild is the quintessential New Haven boxcar and is easily distinguishable from anything else except its B&M twins which we
Quoting Ted Culotta <tculotta@...>: Horse hockey! The NH 36 ft. rebuild is the quintessential New Haven boxcar and is easily distinguishable from anything else except its B&M twins which we
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GTW rebuild herald
Quoting Chet French <cfrench@...>: Stafford can jump in an correct me if I'm wrong here, Ed, but IIRC the green maple leaf herald didn't come into use until the mid to late 1950's. Too l
Quoting Chet French <cfrench@...>: Stafford can jump in an correct me if I'm wrong here, Ed, but IIRC the green maple leaf herald didn't come into use until the mid to late 1950's. Too l
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GTW rebuild herald
Quoting Terry Harrison <nkpman@...>: No book is needed to answer the question, Terry. You respond about steam motive power, on which the GTW used both red and green background heralds, unlik
Quoting Terry Harrison <nkpman@...>: No book is needed to answer the question, Terry. You respond about steam motive power, on which the GTW used both red and green background heralds, unlik
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AAR 50' End-Door Automobile Boxcars
Quoting thompson@...: I think Chuck may be correct for any dealership within 200 miles or so of an assembly plant, beyond which some of the end door cars were still used, though less an
Quoting thompson@...: I think Chuck may be correct for any dealership within 200 miles or so of an assembly plant, beyond which some of the end door cars were still used, though less an
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Sealy Hoppers
Quoting ed_mines <ed_mines@...>: They may well have been some of the same cars rebuilt several times, Ed. Don't forget, the D & H never threw anything away before it's time....at least fifty yea
Quoting ed_mines <ed_mines@...>: They may well have been some of the same cars rebuilt several times, Ed. Don't forget, the D & H never threw anything away before it's time....at least fifty yea
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early arrival in Naperville
Quoting thompson@...: Right! And for a taxi you guys are going to be transported in the highway version of an ICC-105W that has been pressure tested to twice the normal presssure and ha
Quoting thompson@...: Right! And for a taxi you guys are going to be transported in the highway version of an ICC-105W that has been pressure tested to twice the normal presssure and ha
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Intermountain composite gon
Quoting benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...>: Well, Ben, it's kind of what the old fellers mean when they say there is a right way and a wrong way, or quick and dirty way, to do something! <VBG>
Quoting benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...>: Well, Ben, it's kind of what the old fellers mean when they say there is a right way and a wrong way, or quick and dirty way, to do something! <VBG>
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Harvesting rivets
Quoting Andy Carlson <midcentury@...>: And I suppose what you are saying, Andy, is that those of us who are over 60 should forget this extreme silliness altogether, get on with building layo
Quoting Andy Carlson <midcentury@...>: And I suppose what you are saying, Andy, is that those of us who are over 60 should forget this extreme silliness altogether, get on with building layo
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Hand brakes (was AB brake details)
Quoting Ted Culotta <tculotta@...>: Ted, You supply all the drawings and photos that are needed, I will get all to a toolmaker who has the ability to provide a good, stand alone mold or mol
Quoting Ted Culotta <tculotta@...>: Ted, You supply all the drawings and photos that are needed, I will get all to a toolmaker who has the ability to provide a good, stand alone mold or mol
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CC&F question
Quoting Ted Culotta <tculotta@...>: Back again, Ted. Specifically I cannot answer your question but you need to check with Josee Vallerand at the CRHA museum in Delson. Note that she is usu
Quoting Ted Culotta <tculotta@...>: Back again, Ted. Specifically I cannot answer your question but you need to check with Josee Vallerand at the CRHA museum in Delson. Note that she is usu
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Transmission error
Quoting Jerry Breon <jbreon@...>: And several more of us as well! Shall we organize a bus load or a private flight, unless of course someone can come up with a heavyweight sleeper!? Take car
Quoting Jerry Breon <jbreon@...>: And several more of us as well! Shall we organize a bus load or a private flight, unless of course someone can come up with a heavyweight sleeper!? Take car
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Mill Gondolas In Interchange
Quoting Norman+Laraine Larkin <lono@...>: Hello Norm, This was a nice piece of informaiton to see. I can remember seeing that complex several times after my folks moved from Vermont to the Bos
Quoting Norman+Laraine Larkin <lono@...>: Hello Norm, This was a nice piece of informaiton to see. I can remember seeing that complex several times after my folks moved from Vermont to the Bos
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mill gon travels
Quoting ed_mines <ed_mines@...>: Buffalo still has Gibraltar Steel, a specialty outfit that bought out some other firm to get started some twenty years ago. I believe they now have a facility in
Quoting ed_mines <ed_mines@...>: Buffalo still has Gibraltar Steel, a specialty outfit that bought out some other firm to get started some twenty years ago. I believe they now have a facility in
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