I sent a copy of a map of the Kingsbury, Indiana Ordinance Plant as "proposed" in December 1940 to the files section. For you younger folks, note that we were...
Victor, How long was Kingsbury in operation? Bendix or Chrysler also made ammunition down in Evansville and the storage bunkers and some blast walls are still...
... ammunition ... still up. ... go boom are ... Hal: I don't have any idea how long it was open. Thanks for the spelling tip. As you'll note with my other...
Butch: Please send me an email off the list by changing the browser above to my address. I can't send an attachment from here and also can't read your complete...
I have heard that Amtrak #7, a 45-ton GE center cab, was a former Kingsbury locomotive. Maybe someone can come up with more information on this. Somewhere I...
... 1375 ... Thanks much Jim. Now if someone can post us a photo of it in Wabash service or in Wabash garb... Victor Baird Fort Wayne, Indiana ... as ... date?...
Thanks, Victor I followed the site and found that it was built in 1940, the first shell was produced in '41, the plant produced 20mm to 105mm shells and began...
Wonder if that stone was slag from the mill? ... 8< ... 8< ... -- ... Allen P Rueter Phone: 314/935-6429 email allen :) artsci.wustl.edu Camp Box 1045 ;...
Victor, My "Great Lakes East" volume of SPV's Railroad Atlas (c 1996) shows the Kingsbury Ordinance Plant trackage still in use serviced by Norfolk Southern at...
Hal: It's nice that we can talk openly and civily not like I encountered over at the B&O group. It seems one vet read too deeply into my parenthetical remark...
... the ... Wade: I can't recall if I posted it here but part of the reservation is an industrial park with a few cusotmers served by the South Shore Railroad...
Victor, Your B&O "friend" sounds like a guy who was just expelled from the Civil War Ironclads group. I was thinking about getting into the B&O so I could...
Speaking of Jackie, she loved the circus. When she found out I was modeling the Wabash - and that it went through Peru - and there was at one time a circus...
Hal, The B&O group seems to be a pretty good bunch. Don't know what set that fellow off about Victor's post. That's not the typical response one usually gets...
Victor wrote: Now if someone can post us a photo of it [354] in Wabash service or in Wabash garb... Victor, By the looks of the equipment register, the 354 was...
I worked out of Peru on the former NKP and the former Wabash during my college years. During the height of the Viet Nam action we regularly picked up...
Toward the end of the Wabash independence, the two-bay and 70 ton 3- bay hoppers were repainted from the traditional black body with white lettering to a gray...
Mark asked: Also, if you have in your archives, some the cars KNOWN to be gray as verified by images it will help the project. Mark, I have photos of the...
Mark, The revision date for the color change on a paint and stencil print for the three bay, 70 ton cars is 09-13-1962. No doubt this same date also applied...
... Sailor was Supt & Greathouse was CTD when I worked there in 1955/56 I heard that J N Sailor became mayor of Moberly after he retired from RR. Paul...
... Do these box cars have molded on grab irons and ladders? Ah, you reminded me, I've got to order some of those steel gondolas from Sunshine Models. Victor...
Some while back, I picked up a book titled "Tracy Centennial", which was published in 1975. It is a typical remembrance book, with lots of interesting tidbits...
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