Hi Ike, I'd be interested in seeing examples of the forms sent to the ICC. Rich Wilkens

You cannot replace the dust guard on the back of a solid bearing journal box without removing the axle from the box. Early dust guards were made out of wood with the later ones being plastic with a ru

Years ago I was doing research on car shipments on the Yakima Valley Transportation Co. in Yakima, WA during the 1950's. On the railroad were many small coal yards for providing heating coal for house

Hello All, Beside an interest in steam era freight cars I have an interest in World War Two history. Found this interesting video on making of a model 1911A1 .45 automatic pistol by Union Switch & Sig

Hi All, Here is a recent Ebay purchase, RPPC of what appears to be sugar beets being loaded in Santa Fe Stock Car #56820, postcard is dated October 1909. Richard Wilkens http://i158.photobucket.com/al

Union Station in Seattle had one of those wood bumping posts with the cast iron face in use till the 1980's. Rich Wilkens

Actually oil was applied to the joint bars and ends of the rail, not to the entire rail. This was to prevent corrosion behind the joint bar and the track bolts. Richard Wilkens

The movie the Flim Flam Man was just on the other night and it had an L&N bay window caboose in one of the train scenes. The movie is just past our cutoff date. Rich Wilkens

Chapman Chemical in Portland, OR had similar converted boxcars for weed spraying. Great Northern also had their own weed spraying setup with boxcar applicator. Rich Wilkens

Very, Very nice. I love it. Rich Wilkens

Yes Yakima, Ellensburg & Toppenish are in Central Washington but I was mentioning sugar beets were grown around Walla Walla and that is Southeastern Washington. Also since they were controlled by Nort

Whoop's, yeah you are right. Not many sugar beets growing in the timber lands in southwest Washington :) Rich

As Tim said lot's of beet growing in Southwest Washington including the Walla Walla Valley Railway using NP gondolas. As to Caswell gondolas, SP&S bought used ones from ATSF and converted them to wood

All, The list that David Turner is referring to is from SP&S Chief Engineer File SPS 8171 which was the AFE for construction of icing facilities at Portland. The list is from October 15, 1945 to Octob

A mention was made about transporting alcohol from the Pacific Northwest. In the SP&S Railway Historical Society Archives at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archives we have Secretary Files that have y

I know the PGE bought a large amount of ex-Central of New Jersey 40' steel boxcars but I don't know if these were for online use or for interchange. I wonder if the PGE began sending more cars south a

As to Oregon Electric traffic heading North and East, some of this would have been handed over to the Great Northern in the Portland/Vancouver area than it headed East to Wishram on the SP&S than Sout

Or you can have an imploding tank car, slightly off topic. Railroad tank car vacuum implosion Richard Wilkens Railroad tank car vacuum implosion A railroad tank car demonstration imploding after placi

Also remember cement was shipped in bulk in boxcars. When Seattle City Light was building the Diablo and Ross Dam's on the Skagit River in Washington state the cement was produced at the cement plants

Within the SP&S archival records I've been helping in cataloging is a letter from the Santa Fe to the SP&S wanting to know when their tank car that hauled fuel oil to Wishram, WA would be returned to