The January 1937 floods were along the Ohio River. Among the rail traffic interrupted was the train carrying the second shipment of gold bullion to the newly opened depository at Fort Knox KY. Jim Mur

Red Owl had stores as far west as Tacoma WA. Jim Murrie

One of the ads on the ties in front of the cars says "anti trust", possibly a reference to the American Tobacco Co (Duke family) which was broken up by the Feds in 1911. The Duke family controlled 94%

That seems so typical of Denny to make his own tools! Jim Murrie

In the early 1970s I remember seeing NP stock cars near Grand Forks, ND with plywood installed inside the slats to haul wheat. Once a car is steam cleaned, etc. after a livestock load it didn't seem t

ATSF 9231 contents = "Show baggage" as in Broadway show sets, etc. ? Jim Murrie

I've used it for many years to do things like gluing windows in rail cars. Works like any white glue, but flows great and doesn't show where it hit the "glass". Jim Murrie

Interesting. Going to Austria under auspices of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. That dates it as roughly end of WWII and end of 1946. Dates n the flat show 1945, Jim Murrie

Per the Feb. 1951 Official Guide it ran from Belle Chaney (Evangeline Jct.), Louisiana to Greer, LA, 2.2 miles. Connected at Evangeline Jct with the Rock Island. Jim Murrie

We've all lost a good friend. Although I usually only got to see him once a year at Cocoa Beach recently, it was always as if you had just seen him the day before. When I lived in Washington State I g

Schuyler; What is the best way to reach out and send our good wishes, or the name on the Facebook account they are using? Jim Murrie Durham, NC

The B-26 and later B-29 assembly plant was the Martin factory on what is now Offutt AFB(previously Fort Crook) south of Bellevue NE. The building was later made part of the base and called "Building C

Somewhere I have a 1943 or 1944 Illinois license plate that my father told me was made from corn cobs to save steel. It's definitely some kind of "wood" that was then painted and lettered. Jim Murrie

There are pictures of whole battalions of M-48 tanks of Wisconsin National Guard's 32nd Infantry Division being loaded for transport to Ft. Lewis WA, October 1961 on regular MILW flats; some had 2 per

When the Ohio River flooded it put a lot of tracks under water. One result of this was a postponement of the 2nd of the "gold trains" moving bullion to the new depository at Ft Knox. Jim Murrie

The MILW used frames from retired steam loco tenders and built a body on that. Gave large platforms and sturdy underframe. Jim Murrie

Not sure about Steam Era meat refers, but in the "future" I moved a semi filled with "swinging pork" from Sioux Center Iowa to a packing plant in the Hunt's Point Terminal area of the South Bronx (in

I saw them parked at small grain elevators around Grand Forks ND with plywood inserted inside the slats.My assumption was they were hauling grain as this was during the harvest season, sometime betwee

John; a very interesting posting. What years were you searching for your MAIN info? Can you pass on the box numbers within RG 336 that you searched ? Thanks. (I plan to visit in the near future lookin

WP bought some of these cars as their contribution to a pool hauling appliances from Amana Iowa. Jim Murrie