Earl, I am a library bookworm so I tend to think in terms of
references to be seen in local university libraries, not books to own.

Some of the non-railroad trade journals such as Coal Age, Fleet
Manager, Mining Engineer, and Diesel Progress have full page ads from
the real truck manufacturers.

Pick a year of interest and see what trucks were being marketed.
Even small makers like Euclid, and REO. The ads also depict a
variety of applications and hardware. A great source of images and
ideas.

Also, some railroads like B&O contracted out their local freight
house pickup and delivery services to Railway Express. For B&O, at
over 200 stations. More REA trucks there than REA traffic would
warrent.

Commercial trucks were mostly a little too large to be shipped in
boxcars. Hence, on flat cars.







--- In STMFC@..., "Earl Myers" <emyers5@...> wrote:

List;
Where can I find a good reference for non REA (I have the REA

truck book)

commercial trucks that woulda been seen around railroad freight car

depots

in the mid 30's-mid 40's, both straight axle & semi?
Anybody know what motor freight companies were around back then in

Ohio &

PA.?
Earl Myers

A good source of pictures is Hank's trucks www.hankstruckpictures.com/



Jim Hayes

Portland Oregon

Earl,

I have quite a few books of the type you are seeking on my shelves. They were published by Motor Books International ( http://www.motorbooks.com/ ), Krause Publications ( http://www.krause.com/ ), and Bay View Books (no web site available, try Amazon.com). I bought most of my collection through Barnes & Noble, though our local store doesn't stock many such titles anymore. Another source is Hemmings Motor News ( http://www.hemmings.com/ ), which has an online retail outlet that vends many other publishers books, including some on trucks. You might also want to explore the web site for the Hays Truck Museum ( http://www.truckmuseum.org/ ). They have an extensive book store and gift shop, but surprisingly it doesn't seem to be represented on their web site. Lots of interesting slides in the "collection" section though.

Kind regards,


Garth G. Groff

Earl Myers wrote:

Thank you for the information. I had no idea that such a list existed. For many years I have tried to discover information about BOS Freight Lines that operated out of Marshalltown, Iowa. There was also a BOS Refrigerated Truck Lines, owned by a brother but that is not my interest.

Tom

Earl,



Have you ever considered modeling Y.E.L.P. Transfer, their slogan is " Need Help Just YELP!" with a little "stick-man" with "yelping the slogan up and to the left...

I suggest this because I know we model rougly the same area of O-HI-O and era.

My grandfather worked for Yelp for 37+ years as a driver (Mont You'll love this, you might remember this conversation) and retired from there in 1969. YELP was a acronym for Youngstown, East Liverpool and?Pittsburgh Transfer. Headquartered in East Liverpool with warehouses in all three cities. I remember the Pittsburgh?facility was real close to the PRR's?28th street roundhouse, the Youngstown facility was near the E-L Briar Hill shops IIRC, and the East Liverpool facility was on the east side of town on the PRR tracks. I can only remember some details, but as I recall they were at one time an REA contractor, I remember him hauling RR wheels to the BLE yards, EMD traction motors to Conway (he said that was steady business and would laugh),??pipe from Youngstown to Gary, In., lots of steel hauls and who knows what all. One of my uncles also drove for them from after WWII unitl he retired. They were teamsters and their trucks were Diamond REO (during the 50s) and Macks, T&Ts and were painted "Coke" Red and black. Email me offline for more details. But they were a great trucking company along the lines of what Mont Switzer is doing.

Greg?Martin?

Earl Myers asked:

Where can I find a good reference for non REA (I have
the REA truck book) commercial trucks that woulda been
seen around railroad freight car depots in the mid 30's-
mid 40's, both straight axle & semi?

The American Truck Historical Society offers a variety of publications
on trucks:

http://www.aths.org/

There is a series of books called "The Trucking Pioneers" that would
probably
have the information you're looking for. The ATHS used to sell these as
a set, I
don't know if they still do.

Hope this helps,

Shawn Beckert

Earl,

A good site for old truck photos is here:

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm

Scroll down and click on each maker's emblem to see the photos. An occasional steam era freight car appears in the background....

Regards,

Mike Aufderheide

Earl Myers <emyers5@...> wrote: List;
Where can I find a good reference for non REA (I have the REA truck book)
commercial trucks that woulda been seen around railroad freight car depots
in the mid 30's-mid 40's, both straight axle & semi?
Anybody know what motor freight companies were around back then in Ohio &
PA.?
Earl Myers






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List;
Where can I find a good reference for non REA (I have the REA truck book) commercial trucks that woulda been seen around railroad freight car depots in the mid 30's-mid 40's, both straight axle & semi?
Anybody know what motor freight companies were around back then in Ohio & PA.?
Earl Myers