... Nick, A couple of suggestions: Try building the gate out of metal (aluminum is easy to cut). This will help avoid expansion/contraction problems. Second,...
6723
chris@...
Oct 2, 2001 7:39 pm
I'm not sure if this is an appropriate type of email for this group, if not please accept my apology, but here goes. Scott Hahan and I just spent 10 days...
6724
markws@...
Oct 3, 2001 1:38 am
Howdy, as a RAIL America stockholder I pay attention to the company news. This tidbit just came across the wire. ...
6725
csummers@...
Oct 3, 2001 10:30 pm
I recently witnessed a switching move that I had never seen. Maybe I am just in the dark about these things, but here goes. The CN/IC serves a Weyhauser...
6726
kujawa's
ark@...
Oct 4, 2001 12:04 am
Hi everyone: I was cooking some frozen food. You know, the wife is gone so dad cooks. Well I got to thinking where is this stuff made and do they have rail ...
6727
Jon Cure
jcure@...
Oct 4, 2001 1:27 am
Hi Roger, There are quite few frozen food plants in the Pacific Northwest. For example Green Giant foods. Many in the eastern part of the states and Idaho are...
6728
billy44@...
Oct 4, 2001 1:49 am
Hi folks. There's a prototype for everything. The New Haven RR used to run cars ahead of the southbound NX-21 (Valley local). These cars 1 or 2...
6729
Michael Auf der Heide
maufderheide@...
Oct 4, 2001 1:49 am
What are Cryogenic Reefers? Thanks, Mike...
6730
Railboxx@...
Oct 4, 2001 1:49 am
In a message dated 10/3/01 6:29:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jcure@... writes: << n the Nampa and the towns of Burns and Ontario and others are huge potato...
6731
David Husman
dehusman@...
Oct 4, 2001 2:03 am
From: "kujawa's" <ark@...> ... ================ The one in Omaha is not rail served. It is near rail service and 20 years ago it could have been rail...
6732
Jon Cure
jcure@...
Oct 4, 2001 2:08 am
Great story Chief Jim but you didn't mention any 'frozen food' (VBG) Mike, Cryogenic Reefers are those huge 72' monsters that use C02 generation as a coolant....
6733
Railboxx@...
Oct 4, 2001 3:01 am
In a message dated 10/3/01 7:10:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jcure@... writes: << Great story Chief Jim but you didn't mention any 'frozen food' >> Hi Jon...
6734
MARK "PAN MON" PETTEY
mark.pettey@...
Oct 4, 2001 3:02 am
Don't forget frozen food warehouses. There is one up the road from me in Ft. Myers, served by CSX via the Seminole Gulf (shortline). Cases of frozen foods...
6735
Lawrence Jackman
ljack70117@...
Oct 4, 2001 3:46 am
You have a grade to work with. You should see them do it without a grade. It is called a drop. Also there is an other move called a Dutchman drop' Thank you ...
6736
hultman
hultman@...
Oct 4, 2001 4:01 am
All, Years ago I was involved in a flying switch on the at-the-time Macormick, Nashville & Ashland City shortline (Nsv to just beyond Ashland City, previously...
6737
pjboylanboylan@...
Oct 4, 2001 7:57 am
Ohio Industries Inc. makers of locomotive cranes and other large hydraulic lifting machinery that built PLymouth Locos since they took over F-R-H, a while...
6738
Mike Pendergrass
mpend@...
Oct 4, 2001 9:29 am
Bill, Is that Ballentine, as in Ballentine Ale? Mike Pendergrass...
6739
jeager@...
Oct 4, 2001 2:23 pm
... This was once a common practice, but I was under the impression that it is now prohibited by most rule books, no?...
6740
Michael Auf der Heide
maufderheide@...
Oct 4, 2001 2:26 pm
Thanks for the info Jon. I looked up the beasts in Walthers last night per your recomendation. The road names they offer are all private. Do any class ones...
6741
tim gilbert
tgilbert@...
Oct 4, 2001 2:30 pm
In the Herron video BOSTON & MAINE FALL & WINTER, there is a segment showing a Flying Switch being executed in the late 1940's with a K8 Consolidation. Tim...
6742
Michael Auf der Heide
maufderheide@...
Oct 4, 2001 2:36 pm
It seems like throwing the iron a little late would be bad. What do you do if it doesn't clear? Along the same lines-what can you all tell me about poling....
6743
Chris Butts
flange42@...
Oct 4, 2001 2:49 pm
I am pretty sure Napoleon is still rail served... DT&I had some boxes with "When empty return to Napoleon OH"... I thought it was Campbell Soup with a plant...
6744
Malcolm Laughlin
mlaughlin@...
Oct 4, 2001 3:01 pm
Also consider the inbound side. In the Boston area we have Crystal Cold Storage at Medford, Wilmington Cold Storage at Wilmington and Americold at South...
6745
Malcolm Laughlin
mlaughlin@...
Oct 4, 2001 3:01 pm
There are a couple of places where Guilford does this, but they put a car that looks like a caboose (they call it a riding car) ahead of the cars being pushed....
6746
Frank DiNovo
fddpz@...
Oct 4, 2001 3:34 pm
What kinds of cars were used for frozen food service before the advent of these "cryo" reefers? *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** ... Frank DiNovo,...
6747
Jim Hediger
jhediger@...
Oct 4, 2001 3:51 pm
... Campbell's Soup was indeed a major customer of the DT&I at Napoleon, Ohio. Unfortunately, the plant is on a former branch line which was not retained by...
6748
Terry Harrison
terryharr@...
Oct 4, 2001 4:06 pm
Napoleon, OH still does have a cold storage warehouse served by rail today. Not sure name of it. MAYBE Campbell Soup sends some of their stuff over there for...
6749
jeager@...
Oct 4, 2001 4:17 pm
... I believe DT&I also had 50ft RBLs built by General American (also offset doors) and Evans (6+8 doors) for this service. ... Most of the larger canning...
6750
Jon Cure
jcure@...
Oct 4, 2001 4:29 pm
As was mentiond by Chris and Malcolm, regular reefers preceeded the Cryo-cars. The Walthers ones ar pretty much all private owner, some of the smaller ones may...
6751
mamfahr@...
Oct 4, 2001 4:38 pm
... accelerates the train westward, bunches the slack, the brakie pulls the pin on the locomotive, Larry accelerates more, passes the points, I bend the...
