Thank you, Tim. --Chris Frissell Polson, MT

My wife is a librarian, and if she wasn't I would probably not be aware of EBSCO (poke around at ebsco.com), a firm that offers both subscription services, searchable indexes and electronic accession

I thought some list members would be interested, beyond the local-interest content, in this news feature about the history of ice harvesting to supply the WFE/FGE reefer fleet on the GN. There are som

Hi Richard, I don't want to sound like I am jumping on the pile here, but I was wondering when you said "nowhere in Oregon was coal mined in commercial quantities" whether you meant to bracket that to

Richard: I too was content to let this pass, but since you took one more kick at this: My post was not incorrect (nor so car as I can tell were most of the others on list). Though irrelevant to the or

Richard: I have a very basic, first-generation Aztek that I've painted with for about ten years. I'm fine with it-- it does what I need it too, and with easy cleanup and minimum fuss. I very seldom ge

Steve: Eyeball it. Chris Frissell Polson, MT

Brian: Matt Herson called it to my attention first, and since I've seen other bits of evidence from photos and wheel reports that in small numbers, but over many years, some of these ex-Pfaudler CMWX

Richard: All I have specific to that question is from one wheel report filed in Missoula, MT (4 August 1969, but germane to the discussion despite the late date): CMWX 1009, load of wine, 25 tons, Tra

Thanks, Matt, that does nail the routing. It's similar to what we see routinely for produce reefers. Chris Frissell Polson, MT

While I favor Paul's "free lunch" explanation as most likely, and have also heard about routings designed to avoid Chicago handoffs, is there a possibility that in the summer months a northern routing

Tim: I have, with a lot of help from Allen Rueter, Matt Herson, and others, built a NP database for 1969 that's whopping big now (and growing)---13419 freight car records, ca. 150 trains spread throug

Oh, doesn't Ben Hom live for the day when any Pennsy fan could so state it.... Without. Chris Frissell Polson, MT

Ha--that wasn't me who put that in, I left it at "AAR"...I was edited. Chris Frissell Polson, MT

Brian and Mark: Hi, the ACF builder's shot (Milton, Sept 1949) of USAX 11907 on p. 105 of Kaminski's book *American Car and Foundry, 1899-1999* looks to have metal rectangular grid walkways (like the

Tim: My call of "probably" on the frame walkways was based on 1) the open rectangular grid walkways I've seen of all of the three 1970s-80s photographs I've seen of welded USAX and DODX tank cars wher

Is Dan Biernacki a member of this list, or might someone here be able to help me get in contact with him? I would like to seek permission to publish three of the builders photographs of Erie 40ft boxc

Clark: This car is accurate and ready-made to letter as a USAX or (later) DODX tank car in the silver repaint scheme. (I have done a couple and am still searching for 2 or 3 more of these very kits, t

--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: ....>any prewar riveted USQX cars were painted > aluminum when new, but AFAIK all of the welded cars were delivered in > bla

Second. Some of us would buy half dozen or more X-3s in basic funeral black. Chris Frissell Polson, MT