On the subject of MAJOR rebuilds, I recall a story from my grandfather who was a boilermaker foreman at the L&N RR South Louisville Shops. He told of "rebuilding" a locomotive where they could not eve

Penn Central Class L-6 electrics were cab-forwards. Chuckles Peck

This topic reminds me of a story I heard from back in the steam era. The Louisville & Nashville tried to deliver two tank cars to an online consignee. The consignee had declared bankruptcy before deli

I found that railroads were not the only users of Pintsch Gas. It was also used to light coastal buoys and such. The pictured car could therefore be delivering gas for those uses as well as rail needs

My thought was that everything got loaded from the far side. This door was opened by mistake. The tag for "unload from this side" having been lost. OK, I'm just justifying a mistake.

So if I got this straight, all the implement loads were outbound from MM and everything else listed was inbound to MM. Is that correct? Chuck Peck

One end might resemble a single furnace Scotch Marine but with the furnace not coming out the other end, I cannot see it being a good anything at all. Not that I have seen every possible boiler but it

Losing friends may be the worst part of growing old. Chuck Peck

Miss him, Yes. As will we all. Chuck Peck

If I recall correctly (a big if), wasn't anthracite used as carbon filtration in water plants? If so, fuel was not the only need for northeast hoppers far afield. Chuck Peck

In one old man 's view, if it were not for foobies and stand-ins, a lot of otherwise good models would never reach marketable numbers. Not a popular view perhaps. Chuck Peck

Maybe the pipes might not have been intended for municipal system . Perhap there was some industrial use for brine or something else reactive to iron pipe. Chuck Peck

Boilers are boilers, be it on a locomotive or in a building. They require cleaning and upkeep. Even if that hospital could handle cold weather with two boilers, they would have three. One offline gett

Kewanee made many different sizes. Look at the width of your model. Seven or eight foot wide, three would work in my opinion. Nine or ten foot wide, I would go with two. Some smaller sizes might sit c

Like many things in life, it depends. It could be a heating boiler or a power boiler, Both came in various sizes. A heating boiler would typically carry 15 PSI or so and be formed of lighter gauge ste

Now if you were to have a tank car built to the minimum required standards, you might be tempted to fill it full of some heavy but free flowing liquid. Something with a suitably low viscosity, like cl

A vacuum gauge reading minus 27 is not reading pounds per square inch. It is reading inches of mercury that the vacuum can lift. Chuck Peck

Here is a tank car vacuum collapse live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS6IckF1CM0 Chuck Peck

One might keep in mind that many products would never have the manway hatch opened except for cleaning. Most liquid products can be loaded and unloaded through pipes and hoses attached to access valve

Oh Dear! Loss on top of loss on top of loss. When we can start having meets again, it may feel as much like a memorial service as a celebration of modeling. And yet, as much as we will miss our friend