Ted, from 1950. Dave nelson

No, but I suppose I could poke around with this to see what comes up. Dave Nelson

1950. I transcribed all of the state to state commodity shipments, put it into a database, and then built a pivot table to read that database and produce the chart I posted. As for interesting, it’s o

I can tell you loads about Utah coal, right down to monthly carloadings. But instead I refer you to what I said: “…wasn’t much coal west of the Mississippi as compared to the east, hardly any relative

In the steam era there wasn’t much coal west of the Mississippi as compared to the east, hardly any relatively. More on the east bank but still not as much as back east. So why have a fleet of hoppers

This is the note I sent Google re the July 1950 edition: re https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Official_Railway_Equipment_Register/QnQPAAAAIAAJ?kptab=overview. This is a time sensitive quarterly

This is interesting… what if the original renewal was not extended? There was no reason to extend it after all as it was all time specific information. The law says any publication that was copyrighte

Sorry. I do know when WWII ended. I wrongly assumed everyone would understand I was speaking of the past. Another example of why “write so as not to be misunderstood” is good advice. Sorry for the con

1949, right? FWIW there was a POW camp just north of Salt Lake City. German soldiers were shipped in from eastern ports. I have a vague recollection there were actual POW cars but I do not know if the

American can was another big mfgr of cans. FWIW the sheet steel used to make cans was HUGE source of profit for steel mills, far more than anything else. As an example, there was a US Steel mill in Pi

For Lot 702, the NYCHS has the following scanned drawings as part of a much larger set of drawings for other gondolas: 10532 NYC 710000-710999 Steel Details 702-G 10537 NYC 708000-708499 Genl Arrg, Ai

This link is for the Sanborn Maps for page 15 of Beckly from 1922. It is likely this is the most recent map for this location. Page 15 is the most interesting of the set. https://www.loc.gov/resource/

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Anyone having doubts about the forces in railroading only need to look at those rails -- bent like they were just pipe cleaners. Dave Nelson

Look at the ease at which that man is holding that shell. My bet is it is an empty casing and it is being shipped to some location where more exciting material will be added. Dave Nelson

Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2022 1:30 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Would someone be interested in doing some ORER research for me? Don’t know if they’ve changed their polic

Late... but relevant. I took the I mage Claus posted and tried to correct the color. I was able to get a tiny bit of blue into the sky w/o losing the BCR, corrected much of the contrast problems, but

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/circa-1945-view-of-an-illinois-central-freight-train-sitting-in-the-picture-id3244756?s=2048x2048 Dave Nelson

Bruce is correct. If you dig into the archives you will find plenty of discussion on this topic. I don’t recall now when I first posted about it; Tim Gilbert joined in shortly afterwards and wrote far

Walking down a well worn path from long ago; In the late steam era, 1940-late 50’s there is a general rule you can consider for both box and flat cars; set aside a percentage for home road cars, more