There was a time in the early 20th Century when the owners of the RI (The Reid Moore Syndicate) and Frisco (BF Yoakum) envisioned a transcontinental railroad based on their roads. Obviously never happ

Bill Pardie asked: "While I am sounding off on brake components I have one more question. I have an Intermountain model of a Santa Fe Ga-55 65 foot gondola." Intermountain did a 65 ft gon? That's news

Bill I don't know, but I can tell you that Richard Hendrickson's Ga-55 had no brake cylinder, reservoir, or AB control valve. The entire bottom of the Eastern Car Works model is stick-on tire weights.

Andy Carlson wrote: Shot at but missed, as it happened. Tony Thompson tony@...

Tony Exactly. I remember listening to Jean Shepherd's NPR story about the delivery of the Sears house at the local team track. I see they later made it into a mini-movie. :-D https://www.youtube.com/w

While I am sounding off on brake components I have one more question. I have an Intermountain model of a Santa Fe Ga-55 65 foot gondola. It is a ;pretty good model as is but I notice one anomaly. The

We really don't know what each plant made, and I suspect a lot of those "implement" shipments are inter-plant moves; either items manufactured in Moline (on the Rock Island) being shipped to Hopkins f

Why? Just have the appliances delivered on the team track or house track. Tony Thompson tony@...

Jointly operated a large freight station in St Louis that included the Rock Island. Tim

Here’s a few more thoughts about predominance of Rock Island cars. At the time in question, MM was building tractors engines and threshing machines in Minneapolis and building other farm implements, l

Or use a house track, team/dray track, or some other available "company" track to spot the car and the consignee comes with a truck to unload the car. Can site appliance, furniture, blankets, and perh

Their were great images of the American Limited SP&S TANK CAR. It prompts me to ask if anyone has any detail photos of the Southern P:acific o-50-13 tank cars? Particularly of the undercarriage and br

Or SPOOFED. Once a spammer gets hold of someone's address book, they can make emails appear to come from anywhere. Just like fake caller IDs on robot phone calls. Ain't technology great? :-P It could

Clark Propst wrote: "My original thought was the cars were part of a pool?" That doesn't make sense if these were all plain boxcars. Pool would make sense if they were specially equipped to ensure eno

My original thought was the cars were part of a pool? Clark Sent from Mail for Windows 10

San Diego Model Railroad Museum Research Library For future consideration, a tip courtesy of Ryan Di Fede. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum has a railroad/model railroad research library that is op

Steve Hile asked: “Which RR’s served the plant?” The M&StL and the Milwaukee. Clark Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Part of the Yoakum empire, starting with the SA&AP. Yoakum, Texas, is named for him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Yoakum Ron Merrick

Cool with these cars I guess I need to add an appliance store somewhere on the layout. Scott McDonald

Sold! Couldn't pass up the Frisco Lines logo on a C&EI boxcar! Jerry Michels