On Sep 13, 2021, at 05:11, Robert G P <bobgp5109@...> wrote: > > Hello group, [in re: rail shipment of "steersch", as a family friend called it] I'm more familiar with the shipment of sugar beet

Molasses, bunker, what's the diff (in the absence of any evidence of heating I'd say either virgin cane molasses - New Orleans and all that (not black strap) or fuel oil, but not bunker). I've tasted

On Jun 9, 2021, at 08:35, Clark Propst via groups.io <cepropst@...> wrote: When I saw MTC in the Subject line my aged brane immediately went gaga over the Molino Timber Company out of Apto

When that doesn't work, paste the entire list into a text editor, and save it as plain text in a .csv file; open the .csv file in whatever spreadsheet program you use (I use Libre Office on Mac OS X 1

On May 27, 2021, at 05:59, lrkdbn via groups.io <lrkdbn@...> wrote: > I'm sorry I'm not set up to scan stuff so I can't send you a sketch,,but i would say to look at the picture I sent o

ATSF did this on San Francisco Bay between Richmond and San Francisco up into the early 1980s, with a single barge lashed in a hip tow configuration: <https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/p

I have the complete set. As I mentioned up-thread, I got the two more recent tomes from the local public library and copied the fold-outs.

I know from personal experience that those banding clamps are almost strong enough to exceed the tensile strength of the bands. This is one reason out of a Veritable Plethora™ of reasons that for me,

Good catch. The tubes coming out beside and below the furnace are also suspect. Then there's the length - Scotch boilers don't seem to be that long compared to their diameter. I recommend a web search

or what my high school mechanical drawing teacher called "the Pitha Gorian theorem"[0], ... He was of Veneto extraction, though, ergo forgivable. [0] sqrt(x^2 + y^2)

and I didn't need to cheat

On Oct 11, 2020, at 22:09, Kenneth Montero <va661midlo@...> wrote: > From Piedmont & Western Railroad Club website - Railroad reporting marks: First class source, that. > CGW = Chicago Great W

Dave "Silver Streak" Bayless worked the GEMCO job in Lozangelez for a long time; he's a perennial Bay Area modeler.

In almost all of these very busy vintage photos there's some eminently modelable detail that has very little to do with the obvious subject. In this case it's the air compressor on the street to the r

I've read the MSDS docs for toluene and xylene so many times that I'm glad I don't play with Diosol any more. Nitrile gloves and an extremely well-ventilated workspace are necessities for me...

Sure. Why not?

Balclutha's last commercial voyage was in 1941, with the usual anchors, as the naval style still wouldn't cat up correctly. [prototype for everything, yaddida yaddida ...]

On Aug 21, 2020, at 08:16, Edward <edb8381@...> wrote: [...] > Anchors for a flatcar load would be more like those used on large naval vessels and ocean going ships since the late 19th century,

In the foreground is what looks like a Dodge/Plymouth/De Soto.. That arrangement is called a hip tow - the tug has almost perfect control of the barge.

Ah, yes - those are the ones chuckable in something larger, like a sensitive press... I had one in my hands once, in a friend's shop[0], while I was working on the chassis of a 3.5" gauge TICH. [0] we