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

Granted, truss rod cars survived in their own era. Times change. Mix even a good truss rod car into a string of 100 ton hoppers, let the slack run out, and you have a lot of toothpicks. What worked ye

As I see it, railroad are, to some extent, self-insured. Meaning, very large deductibles. To put it in personal terms, I can choose to take a risk if I can afford the result. At the same time, I can n

Bill, Sad news indeed. You and your family will be in my thoughts. I do not doubt your strength, but I hope the service will help your family see how loved you are by others. It may strengthen them. C

I can see two reasons for the car being so marked. Both suppositions, as I did not work on that railroad in that time frame. One, like cars in green hide service, I would think the interior to be grun