Denny, right you are. I preach for the first time at the Ocheyedan UMC at 10:30 tomorrow morning. Extra points if I pronounce the name correctly. Would like to know more about the coal dealer, however

Jim, the list Clark cited is from a Fairfax MN (MSTL) Seal Book 1947 - 48, a record kept by the local agent showing every car for which he affixed a car seal. Fairfax is west of the Twin Cities (Minne

Mark, according to Gene Green the cars in question were ex-W&LE/NKP 36' steel ctrsill box cars w/truss cars purchased used by the M&StL in 1938. The # series was 26000 to 26418 even #'s, total of 210

Peter, for some reason I think it best that the words "dive-in" and "offal" should never be used together in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence. As to the afore mentioned loads, yes they

Group, a fellow M&StL modeler, Mike Heslop of Bluff Creek Trains, is currently working with Kadee to do a run of cars for the M&StL 2700-2706 series of PS-1 40' boxcars. He wants to know what interest

Can anyone offer any information on an AAR stockcar design? Or point me to a source of AAR freight car designs/drawings. I have searched the group files and can find nothing related to an AAR stockcar

Thanks to Ben, Charlie and Richard for providing the correct information I was seeking. I knew the BLI was a unique Pennsy design, but wanted to be sure before responding on the list where the AAR com

Jeff try this website for locating National Archive employees http://www.archives.gov/about/organization/employee-locator.html I could not get it to work this morning, but you might have better luck.

Last I knew, the entire state of Wisconsin was east of the Mississippi River. The river actually forms the border between Wisconson on the east and Iowa and Minnesota on the west. So it would appear n

I purchased copies of John's various publications at the time (mid 90's). Thought I had discovered the magic answer to accurate information about models and freight cars. The books were essentially ph

This is because Mike persuaded the local NMRA region/division to be the sponsor of the Cocoa Beach meet, making it an official NMRA event. Thus Cocoa Beach qualifies for NMRA event insurance coverage.

Tim there was a vinegar production facility on the north side of Rogers, Ark. along side the Frisco tracks. It was torn down a few years ago in the name of progress. But they had very large wooden ver

I just toured the US Gypsum plant in Fort Dodge, Iowa with the CNW Historical Society in March. We learned that Sheetrock is a trademark name, like Kleenex or Frigidaire. That US Gypsum has been makin

Bob, Wilsons and Cudahy had multiple plants and branch houses around country. So their cars could be seen just about anywhere. Rath had only one plant, the one in Waterloo, but it was the largest slau

Dave interesting question about Military Supply Depots. No doubt they would have received large quantities of meat, and I would guess arrival at the supply depots in regular meat reefers from whom eve

Tony, yes I think that would be consistent with the 50's. There were two kinds of meat packing plants, those that did just slaughtering and those that slaughtered and processed meat, what we call valu

Thanks Garth, my information on Kingan is minimal, the plant locations I have come from documents shortly after WWII. I didn't show anything west of Omaha. Kingan and Company opened in 1863 in Indiana

Here is a link to a great short films on a typical day in a life of a grain elevator. Lots of good detail, including coopering a grain door, moving a boxcar by hand, and how they were filled. While sh

Gene, yes it appears to be a reefer equipped for icing other reefers. The hand operated mechanism looks to be a lift, ie a dumb waiter, used to lift ice blocks from the interior of the car up to the r

RE: the subject of ice deck (dock?) crews and wheelbarrows, it appears these facilities varied by company and railroad. There were single deck and double deck designs. Some moved large 300lb blocks in