I have always bought from my LHS. I also buy from my local hardware store, instead of Home Depot, etc., because I want to keep them around. Since the last great LHS with a great inventory closed, I no

On the MILW, it was a "running board". Different roads had different terms for things. Brad Smith

Not true. I was a real railroader and we used the term friction bearing. A common term in describing car trucks and repair of such. Brad Smith Sent from Brad's iPod

Beer was shipped from New Jersey in Jersey Central insulated boxcars owned by North American and carrying the NJDX reporting marks. I believe this was the Rhinegold brewery. Brad Smith

I bet the beer cars passed THRU your county. Brad Smith Sent from Brad's iPod

The answer is "Yes." Much of the beer was labled "Propeller Beer." Brad Smith

Swift's early mechanical reefers were in the red scheme with white eves, like the ice reefers. Brad Smith Sent from Brad's iPod

You are correct. We used Nystrom too. Brad Sent from Brad's iPod

Spent grain cars had a Miller emblem painted on the door. Brad Smith Franklin WI Sent from Brad's iPod

No, it was a door repair. We bought our doors from two different makers. Camel and Superior. That's a Superior door replacement. Brad Smith Franklin, WI Sent from Brad's iPod

Bagged cement was sold at lumber yards for contractors and home improvers. Like making a side walk or driveway. Was still sold at the end of the STMF period. In Rhode Island, where I grew up, I saw a

Looks like I sold my stuff too cheap. Brad

I seem to remember a class action suit or something of the kind when they put Brewed From Rocky Mountain Spring Water" on the cans from Va. Then Coors put the "Born of Rocky Mountain Spring Water"on t

I just used it as an example. Brad Sent from Brad's iPod

Carling had multiple breweries and probably tried shipping beer between breweries. Coors shipped beer in insulated tank cars, from Colorado to the East coast, where it was bottled. The beer only dropp

I repair pocket watches, in addition to my N-scale train hobby and do ham radio, circuit board projects. I used to use an eye loupe, but they are not comfortable for me to use. I chose the Optovisor,

That film was produced by Alco, showing what a set of FA-1's could do and is available from the New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association, so you can own it. It is a terrific film. "Look

I am making an assumption that the guy would ride and sleep in his own rider car. But that is just an assumption on my part. The picture was from the front of the train. Even in the Red/White/Blue car

BAR potato cars roamed the US except for during the potato harvest because there were more cars than the BAR could store, so they leased them out. During the potato harvest, solid trains of the cars w

On the MILW, it was called a "monogram". Herald was a "modelbuilder's" term. I'm sure other railroads had different terms for the same thing. Brad Smith