Thank you for your posting the three scanned pictures. I am sorry for the controversity, but it did result in another one of Dan's out of print books being...
David Contact Mel McFarland and order his CMQ guide book for less than $10. Mel has the track arrangements for all of the stations along the Midland to include...
There is a small diagram of basalt yard on p22 of Mels' excellend data handbook. However there is a larger diagram in a book called the Model Railroading...
David, see the posts around 758/761, you need the first edition of the book to get the information on Basalt. I hope you can find a copy on Ebay or Amazon as...
Thanks Alan - I found your reference. This is vol I of the three volume set. I had forgotten about this, but but did find it in my library. Do you know the...
Grp; Years ago a former Midland trainman, J.W. Kalfus wrote about the snow blockade of 1899 in the Locomotive Engineers' Journal (Feb '37). There he...
Grp; since there is not much snow out here in the Moravian hinterlands, I have been plowing through some Leadville newspapers again, and found some interesting...
Also finding considerable evidence that the Midland used D&RG trackage in Leadville, long before connection with C&S was built. 1887 article saying that now...
Adrian Do you suppose that the shipments may have been in those famous oil-box cars of the late 1800's and that might be why we haven't seen photos of tank...
This is getting interesting Tom. I think there were more tank cars on the CM than we realized. I have a copy of an unpublished photo of a triple-headed drag...
Hi Adrian; I'm working on the caboose at present, and the Aspen depot will be next. I will be out of town for a week, so that will slow things down somewhat. ...
Adrian As always, these findings get more interesting as we string all those facts together. Obviously more tanks than the "fabled trainload of tank cars from...
No, these are regular tank car shaped like the metal cars of later years. Around the turn of the century, the cars were built with wood, horizontal slats....
On the way where? Where is it going? Yes, I am working on the 401 to 416 series now, and then will follow with those of the series that had the end platforms...
Yes of course, but I can never remember exactly when it was called what. Wouldn't it have been the DT&G in 1894? Article doesn't specifically say how the...
I would also ask what other tank cars besides UTL showed up in the lists, especially in the later years. It is most likely that there were other private tank...
And I sent you photos of mine, awaiting further instructions.... Mel ... Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now....
... The Overland tank/box car mentioned was an early experiment that failed. There were not may such cars and the few that were built were quickly removed...
Have been working ahead on the Pullman articles which will appear in the CMQ (if our editor concurs). Have made an interesting 'discovery'. The Midland's...
The order of assembly, and instructions were to have been written by Mel MeFarland. He agreed, and I still got his more than year old letter. My homey system...
That would be a neat car to look at. Are there any diagrams or plans for the car? Do we know how many there were? My guess is that they would ship liquids...
... plans for the car? Do we know how many there were? My guess is that they would ship liquids in the tanks and ship lubricants in drums in the center part...
I would like to post this on the Earlyrail site to see if anyone there has any information they could share with us on this topic. I would rather have you do...
Check White's book on Freight Cars. It shows "regular" steel tanks being made in the 1870's. They are very similar to today's tank cars. Clifford A. Mestel ...
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