Hi Bill and All, Since Rock Island and SP had through service from Chicago to the west coast, I thought that I would build on this and add B&O to the mix to ...
Jim Eager wrote... ... I can put some numbers to another "isolated exception" of small covered hoppers hauling grain. SP&S train lists show 4,478 cars in...
... passenger train terminate at my modeled station to allow interchange between these two railroads and the RI, B&O and Nashville Road. All other L&N and...
Bill Jewett wrote: "As to interchange with the L&N (and its controlled NC&StL), since L&N goes all the way to Louisville and Memphis it seems less likely that...
... At a cattle feed transloader around here called White's Hauling, they still get boxcars filled with "cottonseed." I have no idea how it's actually stored,...
I am an SP fan and might add that besides the SP-RI Golden State Chicago to LA Trains and the CNW-UP-SP Chicago to San Francisco trains, there were several...
Hi Bill, I agree with you wholeheartedly and have been wrestling with this. So far I haven't determined which trains will have interchange traffic. More than...
Andy -- Thanks for renewing the invitation. However we have now moved to Chapel Hill NC so chances of my being nearby are pretty slim, unfortunately. ...
... From: "Malcolm Laughlin" <mlaughlinnyc@...> ... ========================== Most of the grain doors I saw were post-emptying, shredded doors with the ...
... you have looked too late. You should have taken pictures before 1970. ... And we're now happy if we see rudiments. Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Dudler look...
... Empty boxcars didn't travel with wood grain doors, they had lasting value and were collected for re-use. In an article several years ago about grain doors...
Cottonseed is still shipped in boxcars, except we do not use grain doors anylonger, just reinforced paper. Unloading is done with bobcat loaders. Volume is...
So why these days would one ship a bulk commodity in a boxcar, rather than a covered hopper? Since it's more work, can I assume boxcars are cheaper (to make,...
Another reason may be that the facility doesn't have a "pit" for the hopper to unload to. All you need is a siding and some grunt workers to unload a boxcar -...
Could be, although I've seen local examples of CH's unloaded w/o a pit, w/a motorized funnel under the bottom. But that may differ by commodity; what I see...
... From: "Wolfgang Dudler" <Wolfgang.Dudler@...> ... ========================= No this WAS back in the 1970's. The only time you see a grain door is when...
... From: "Hudson Leighton" <hudsonl@...> ... ============================ Because the commodity is not free-flowing. Cotton seed has bits of cotton ...
... My understanding is that one must ALSO open the top hatches in order to unload the car correctly. The car WILL unload with the top hatches sealed, but the...
Since I posted my MS Word/Access "Car Card Generator", has anyone else used it effectively? Just curious. Micheal Farley Fargo, ND [Non-text portions of this...
Now they've even outsourced the traditional Christmas layout! I suppose it's cheaper than having the help standing around the water cooler discussing the next...
In a message dated 12/2/2005 6:01:38 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, FriendlySP@... writes: outsourced the traditional Christmas layout! I did one or two...
Hello, you would need to email my friend at cmrproducts@... anything you want to know about conrail in the 80's HE will know...tell him that Scott Eric...
