To all: I hope you all had happy holidays. Let's start off the new year with a message from Robert Rogers, responding to Don Sheets' recent messages. John...
To all: Before Christmas I asked Don Sheets some follow-up questions on the tank cars he had seen on the Pass: You wrote: "We handled a lot of molten sulfur,...
Stan Kistler, in one of his railfan memoir pieces in the "Santa Fe Route" magazine of the old SFRHS, talks about loads of Kaiser steel moving westbound in the...
Somewhere I saw something about Walthers bringing out newly done Riverossi (sp) passenger cars. Does anyone know anything about them and are any of them cars...
In a message dated 1/3/2003 10:25:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... I just saw an ad in the most recent Walthers catalog. They're based on UP streamliners and...
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I don't remember the years, but we took loads of what I was told was "pig iron" from Kaiser down to LA over the second district in the evenings or at night. We...
To all: ... Somewhere I saw something about Walthers bringing out newly done Rivarossi passenger cars. Does anyone know anything about them and are any of...
John Thompson wrote:
"Walthers is also announcing two smooth-side lightweight sleepers in their
own line (non-Rivarossi): a 6-6-4 and a 4-4-2. I also haven't...
Does anyone have a photo or plans of the UP roundhouse that was just South of the A Yard and west of the depot at San Bernardino during WW II? -- Stuart A....
To all: Stuart Forsyth asked: Does anyone have a photo or plans of the UP roundhouse that was just south of the A Yard and west of the depot at San Bernardino ...
To all: ... It was still there when I retired in '78 and I think there were two tracks there. F.L. Post (We Santa Fe guys used it after the SF roundhouse...
To All, I found that I to had a problem bring up Steve Sandifer's Stock and Reefer Clinic Notes also but there is another way around this problem and that...
To all: ... Michael Shaw has asked me about stock trains over Cajon circa 1950. I understand that stock came from Arizona, northern California and Washington ...
To all: I didn't have much time to look in books last night for the UP engine house in SB, but I did find one photo I remembered, on page 136 (bottom of page) ...
To all: I can't recall any other published photos showing the UP engine terminal on the south side of the SB A Yard, except for the one I mentioned last time, ...
To all: I have a correction to make to this sentence I wrote yesterday: "This sand tower is across the tracks from the sand house, and a thin pipe runs...
To all: Here are some answers about L.A. meat packing plants and Cajon stock traffic from Richard Hendrickson. Thanks, Richard, John Thompson ... There was a...
To all: Here are a couple more comments on the subject. ... I seem to remember unloading hogs at a Cudahy plant in L.A. F.L. Post ... In addition to the...
Just to let u all know,Gary Gray will be taking me out on February 15th(Saturday).This is a re-scheduled trip from November.I will be coming with my g/f.Her...
A 1949 map of LA shows a Swift packing house in Vernon at Vernon and Soto. There is reference to National Feed Yards and Owen's Ill. Pac. The Union Stock Yard...
Are there any Cajon Subdivision historians here that are associated with any railroad museums? If so I'm interested in having someone write a few paragraphs...
Note: I tried to send this last Thursday but it never got out. To all: Thanks to Cliff Prather for the additional information about LA-area meat packing...
To all: Here's a modeling question from Robert Rogers. John Thompson ... QUESTION: Does anyone know how to take the bow out of the old plastic Walthers...
To all: ... from Robert Rogers: 6 Jan 2003 Dear John, Smooth side Pullman 4-4-2's were used on the Chief but they were owned/operated by NYC as the 'coast to...
To all: Here's more info on L.A. meat packing plants, from Robert Rogers. John Thompson ... 18 Jan 2003 Dear John, The UP stock trains went to Commerce, south...
To follow up Robert Rogers' follow-up, the "Chief" carried smooth-side 4-4-2s owned by both the NYC AND the Pennsylvania RR. The PRR cars in this transcon line...
To all: Here's the last of the messages Robert Rogers sent me on Jan. 18. I noted before that in the 1951 track diagram, the tracks in the UP engine terminal...
To all: ... John, Could you put the roof in an oven at say 200F for a few minutes to heat the plastic enough to take the bow out of it? I know this is what...
Brenda Bailey, in her article on building the Walthers Santa Fe heavyweight passenger cars in the old "Santa Fe Modeler," installed stripwood posts inside the...
