... fleet of meat reefers. And I am sure there are others in the book, I just didn't look all of them up. In 1930 Armour owned 6334 meat reefers, 480 Tank...
Donovan, et al. You have already had some excellent feedback to your question. Let me only add that where a loaded rail car is physically interchanged between ...
... *** I WANT THAT GUY'S JOB!! I WANT THAT GUY'S JOB!! *** Except instead of reading, I'd have a small valise containing hand tools and car kits. (Music...
... If you want to get paid for railfanning, though, we do have RR bridge operators here in the Twin Cities. Dave & I met one of them on the train to New...
George: I clearly remember as a kid in the early 50's seeing Swift cars. Exactly where I couldn't tell you, but it was somewhere in the greater Newark area. ...
List: Sorry for the second post, but within the past two years (?) I believe RMC (?) ran a several part article on the Swift reefers. Thanks, Rich ... From:...
Rich, I assume you mean Newark, NJ and not California as that would be too much of a coincidence. There was mention earlier of tank cars for several meat...
... In the June 1990 MODEL RAILROADING, George Melvin, in his Yarmouth Junction ME series, noted that the Grand Trunk (CN) would deliver meat reefers to the...
My mom purchased me Cathy's Flower Shop from Model Power for Xmas. Her name's Cathy, she couldn't resist. I'm adding a sizeable greenhouse on the side, and a...
What about pallets of Pots, potting soil, bags of peat moss, etc. Just look outside Wal Mart this spring and see what they had shipped in on trucks for spring...
... ======================== Bagged decorative rock or bark in boxcars inbound. Tools, gloves, clay pots in boxcars. Near Christmas maybe a carload of...
... Bachman's in Minneapolis used to be rail served. (They were west of Model Stone on the High Line} You can go to their website at http://www.bachmans.com/...
Hi Folks, I know that the Burlington served two large nurseries, Henry Fields and Earl May,in Shenandoah, Iowa. Special trains were run in the spring for the...
Hi Folks, I have enclosed a list of products that a packing house would have recieved or shipped, probably on a daily basis. In my 1930 ORER all of the major...
In a message dated 1/2/03 2:33:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Hi Gang, I have a wood-side boxcar lettered for Stark Brothers Fruit Trees (Stark Trees Bear...
Hi Folks, I have enclosed a listed of the type of rail shipments that a packing house would have recieved or shipped, pretty much on a daily basis. In my 1930...
I live in Fort Myers, Florida. Today, Fort Myers proclaims itself to be "The City of Palms", but going back to the 1950s and earlier the city was known as ...
Here are two very unusual laws that may affect those of you who model railroads in North Dakota or Texas: In the former, it's illegal for a railroad engineer...
... I guess all the greenhouses mentioned before are in warmer climates. There were several greenhouses that I remember as a kid in northern Illinois that had...
... railroad crossing each shall come to a full stop and neither may proceed until the other has gone. ... I can't. If that's indeed the way the law is...
... byproducts from the meat processing operations. I imagine that the tank cars containing these byproducts went to fertilizer or chemical plants? It would be...
I was joking! Seeing that anything is possible in the RR world! *-) ... Niagara Rails - http://www.niagararails.com or http://64.127.199.185/ Webmaster : Paul...
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