Thanks for pointing this scan out, Bob. I noticed that the physical book they scanned was through the courtesy of funding by James J. Hill as mentioned on the first flyleaf. Good old Jim Hill still ed

Nice shot of the sawdust burner as well as the loco. A lot of good details seen on the sawdust burner that will help me model one. Thanks for the unexpected detail! Doug Paasch

Good thought on the lumber. The PNW is almost all softwood. Hardwoods would need to come from the east, like maple (duh!), red & white oak, black walnut, etc. Toothpicks, clothes pins, and textiles (e

Thanks all for your info/ideas!

They wouldn't ship spuds or cranberries from Maine to the west coast as Washington and Idaho are spud country, and Washington and Oregon grow cranberries (Ocean Spray). But B&M beans are THE best and

I blew the photo up as big as I could on a 24” monitor, in a darkened room, and can just barely make out what appear to be 100 lb sacks of flour stacked inside the PFE reefer. Looks like the reefer(s)

Hey, that's neat. A nice memento for me as I had two uncles on my mom's side that built railroad freight cars in Renton back then. Thanks for the posting. Doug Paasch

Thanks Claus! Awesome picture, and with the unloading crane with tongs, too. I will be modeling log dumps on my layout and this photo will be a great reference on how log loads were secured in gondola

Add to Doug Harding's list of cities, I was just looking at GN customers in Seattle and the list included those packers as well. Doug Paasch

I still bemoan the loss of the “good old days” when the sky was blue (even on overcast days) from the tee-pee sawdust burners, and the air burned your nose with its acrid smell. I also miss the “aroma

As RJDial mentioned, the 1936 date for the side facing goat was not for freight cars. The side goat was first used for freight cars in 1941 as he said. The 1936 date was for locomotives' first use of

Thank you Seth. This info is sufficient for my purposes. Doug Paasch

I just bought a Bachmann Silver Series (15009) box car, NYC 164613, stamped BLT 10-47. Under the oval “NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM” logo is a 5-pointed star about 10 scale inches wide. Does anyone know wh

Thanks for sharing that Lee. So the paper lining was sufficient to keep the cans clean even in a stock car? Doug Paasch

Looking at the photo closer, it appears to be a heavy paper liner.

Nice photos Bob. Thanks for a great tidbit of info regarding an alternate use of stock cars. Regarding shipping empty cans in stock cars, its seems unlikely but I’d never say never. As you can see in

Also, notice the hoist, counterweights, and cable/pulley system to adjust the platform deck height. DP

Work train for stringing catenary. One flat carries the cable reels. The one with the "roof" is a high work platform for the electricians. Doug Paasch

Thanks Bob. In reading this, I couldn’t make sense of one sentence so after some searching online, I found the same article. Looks like a line was skipped in retyping it. The sentence “No ice except t

I found this tidbit on the internet about shipping frozen fish. https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy-pdfs/leaflet431.pdf I, too, would be interested in the shipping of non-frozen dead