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GN 1948 Box Cars
John, looks like Staffan's photo got stripped from his message, but Ron Merrick is correct. I checked all the photos I had where you could see the end, and only the cars that had been rebuilt after 19
John, looks like Staffan's photo got stripped from his message, but Ron Merrick is correct. I checked all the photos I had where you could see the end, and only the cars that had been rebuilt after 19
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Weathered NKP gondolas
Those are fabulous, Eric. The only things I know about NKP are from Emery Gulash's 1960s video footage and Tony Koester's articles on his own layout. What might these have hauled? Doug Polinder Lowell
Those are fabulous, Eric. The only things I know about NKP are from Emery Gulash's 1960s video footage and Tony Koester's articles on his own layout. What might these have hauled? Doug Polinder Lowell
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Decals for scale locations and light weights
Charlie, Portland Car & Foundry has decals for GN scales and repack data: https://www.myhotrains.com/PDF/140923/02-DECALS1-Standard.pdf?x24143 Doug Polinder Lowell MI
Charlie, Portland Car & Foundry has decals for GN scales and repack data: https://www.myhotrains.com/PDF/140923/02-DECALS1-Standard.pdf?x24143 Doug Polinder Lowell MI
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-- C&BT Upgrade
Andy, I don't disagree. But GN had a few series of 10'2" IH cars and as far as I can tell the only source is C&BT 12-panel 40-footers. Other manufacturers offer either 10'0" or 10'6". Put a 10'2" car
Andy, I don't disagree. But GN had a few series of 10'2" IH cars and as far as I can tell the only source is C&BT 12-panel 40-footers. Other manufacturers offer either 10'0" or 10'6". Put a 10'2" car
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Walthers #932-5850 Single Sheathed Auto boxcar
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Bill, that is a splendid model. Please tell us more about how you built the rest of it. Doug Polinder Poquoson VA
Bill, that is a splendid model. Please tell us more about how you built the rest of it. Doug Polinder Poquoson VA
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Photo: NYC Depressed Center Flat 499051
Andy, might you be referring to Snoqualmie Falls? I'm not aware of any falls on the Snohomish River. The Snoqualmie and Skykomish rivers converge to form the Snohomish. The Skykomish is known to steam
Andy, might you be referring to Snoqualmie Falls? I'm not aware of any falls on the Snohomish River. The Snoqualmie and Skykomish rivers converge to form the Snohomish. The Skykomish is known to steam
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Revenue Divisions Between Railroads
Alex, thanks for the post. Some of us remember and lament the loss of the MIGN and Chief (I rode the former from Rockford to Cedar Springs). Are you saying Chicago was a gateway for MIGN? How did they
Alex, thanks for the post. Some of us remember and lament the loss of the MIGN and Chief (I rode the former from Rockford to Cedar Springs). Are you saying Chicago was a gateway for MIGN? How did they
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Crappy Job
Alex, thanks for this amazing anecdote. I rode a Michigan Northern excursion in 1983 from Rockford to Cedar Springs. Also rode the C&O car ferry to Kewaunee (or maybe Manitowoc? don't remember) in 198
Alex, thanks for this amazing anecdote. I rode a Michigan Northern excursion in 1983 from Rockford to Cedar Springs. Also rode the C&O car ferry to Kewaunee (or maybe Manitowoc? don't remember) in 198
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Photo: Heavy Duty Milwaukee Road Flat Car 601051
Tom, I think the line from North Van to Squamish along Howe Sound was completed in 1955. A 1970s article in a Carstens pub (Railfan & Railroad, most likely) also described the furor when PGE started b
Tom, I think the line from North Van to Squamish along Howe Sound was completed in 1955. A 1970s article in a Carstens pub (Railfan & Railroad, most likely) also described the furor when PGE started b
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Photo: Heavy Duty Milwaukee Road Flat Car 601051
Tony, couple of possibilities. The yard in Vancouver is not identified. Walter Frost took pictures in various yards belonging to CN, CP, and GN. If this is a CP yard, the load could have traveled via
Tony, couple of possibilities. The yard in Vancouver is not identified. Walter Frost took pictures in various yards belonging to CN, CP, and GN. If this is a CP yard, the load could have traveled via
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Poultry car photo
I found the attached photo of a poultry car in a book that the Lynden Tribune published in 1976 for the bicentennial celebration in my hometown of Lynden WA. I believe the original photo either belong
I found the attached photo of a poultry car in a book that the Lynden Tribune published in 1976 for the bicentennial celebration in my hometown of Lynden WA. I believe the original photo either belong
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Transit cars in freight trains
The Emery Gulash Wabash video (from Green Frog) has footage of St. Louis cars moving east in a Wabash train in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Doug Polinder Poquoson VA
The Emery Gulash Wabash video (from Green Frog) has footage of St. Louis cars moving east in a Wabash train in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Doug Polinder Poquoson VA
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PF&S
This is only a month late, but PF&S is indeed the Prantles. I asked Denise (daughter, I believe) if it stood for Prantle Feed & Seed (their address on Ione in Eltopia WA, outside Pasco, is a typical E
This is only a month late, but PF&S is indeed the Prantles. I asked Denise (daughter, I believe) if it stood for Prantle Feed & Seed (their address on Ione in Eltopia WA, outside Pasco, is a typical E
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First message
Test 试验 prueba Doug Polinder Poquoson VA
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Pacific Northwest lumber traffic
My observations of Pacific Northwest lumber traffic agree with Chuck Soule's sightings in Tacoma. GN received interchange cars from CN at New Westminster BC, and I believe CN forwarded cars from PGE t
My observations of Pacific Northwest lumber traffic agree with Chuck Soule's sightings in Tacoma. GN received interchange cars from CN at New Westminster BC, and I believe CN forwarded cars from PGE t
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Banana train picture on the NP
Warren Wing's _A Northwest Rail Pictorial II_ (Edmonds, Wash.: Pacific Fast Mail, 1991), p. 95, shows an NP banana train heading south at Black River WA (between Seattle and Tacoma) on July 16, 1962.
Warren Wing's _A Northwest Rail Pictorial II_ (Edmonds, Wash.: Pacific Fast Mail, 1991), p. 95, shows an NP banana train heading south at Black River WA (between Seattle and Tacoma) on July 16, 1962.
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Updating a roster; was: Prototype fidelity
I second Ian Cranstone's suggestion for a GS gon. The Detail Associates model, out of production these many years, nicely lent itself to modeling almost any Western road with its choice of Dreadnaught
I second Ian Cranstone's suggestion for a GS gon. The Detail Associates model, out of production these many years, nicely lent itself to modeling almost any Western road with its choice of Dreadnaught
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Propeller loads
Paul, In Four Ways West's GN Equipment Color Pictorial vol. 2, p. 77, there is a picture of a GN "well" flat, #60029 from series 60000-60032, with a propeller load being unloaded in Seattle c. WWII. I
Paul, In Four Ways West's GN Equipment Color Pictorial vol. 2, p. 77, there is a picture of a GN "well" flat, #60029 from series 60000-60032, with a propeller load being unloaded in Seattle c. WWII. I
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livestock shipments
Doug, Wonderful interview; thanks for preserving that for us. Note that the origin of feeder calves to which the gentleman referred is Marfa, Texas, not "Marva." This is on the Espee just west of Pais
Doug, Wonderful interview; thanks for preserving that for us. Note that the origin of feeder calves to which the gentleman referred is Marfa, Texas, not "Marva." This is on the Espee just west of Pais
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Making grab irons
Allen is referring to, I believe, the sidebar on p. 89 in Ted Culotta's fourth installment of the Essential Freight Car series in the July 2003 RMC on NP's double-sheathed boxcars. In the same issue o
Allen is referring to, I believe, the sidebar on p. 89 in Ted Culotta's fourth installment of the Essential Freight Car series in the July 2003 RMC on NP's double-sheathed boxcars. In the same issue o
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