Shipments of Eggs from Minnesota in the 1950s
There was a post on the M&StL discussion group that caught my eye this morning. It dealt with the shipping of flats of eggs from a team track in Arlington, Minn. in the early 1950s. The question...
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Iowa was the second busiest shipper of eggs during the 1950s (the previous post described shipments from Minnesota, the leading shipper). These data are from the 1% Carload Waybill Survey and the...
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Refrigerator Cars Passing Newberry Junction
I thought I would start this installment with a photo of one of the pages of the Newberry Junction Passing Report. It shows the overall layout of the report and how neatly the data were recorded....
View ArticleA Thought on Decals
Long drive to Maryland today, and a busy day tomorrow, but I wanted to check in with a thought on decals. I'm working now with a couple of collaborators on some decal projects, and I had some time...
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A Two-Step Weathering Process
This is a 1937 AAR M&StL box car in the green scheme that I found on eBay assembled, but unweathered. It looked like it was having trouble finding a home (no bids) so I picked it up as a test bed...
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Progress on the Municipal Ferry Terminal
This is the last night of this business trip and I am getting ready to drive home tomorrow! All of the organizational goals have been met, so now it feels like its time to look over what I...
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Kit Profile - Bowser 55950 (PRR F30a Flat Car)
Introduction:This profile covers Bowser 55950, which is described on the end of the box as "50' F-30a Flat Car Undecorated". [No dashes in PRR class designations, please ;) ] The major parts of this...
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A Prototype Waybill - 27
Introduction:There are a couple of things I liked right away about this waybill. I have pleasant memories of some vegetation survey work we did near Libby in the early 2000's, and it is a beautiful...
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A Prototype Waybill - 28
Introduction:The subject of this post is a New York Central waybill directing the shipment of a carload of bituminous coal from a mine in Indiana to Evangeline Milk in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, for use...
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EJE/CBQ Crossing at Eola
On the CNW discussion group Bill Shapotkin wrote:"Am looking for photo(s) of the CB&Q/EJ&E Xing at West Chicago. Visited the location in 1991 -- the diamond had already been removed. Was this...
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The Green Line in 1957
I saw another discussion about the Green Line in Milwaukee this morning. The Green Line was a short (less than one mile) single-tracked dead end spur that served a handful of industries on the south...
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There's been an interesting discussion on the STMFC group about stock car shipments and the group has been reporting a lot of data. So I thought I would chip in a bit with some statistics from the 1%...
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A Prototype Waybill - 16
Introduction:This waybill is a bit of an excursion from the usual waybill posts; it is not from the A&W collection, it is just a waybill I saw on eBay and thought was interesting and worth...
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Diversion and Reconsignment
Introduction:In a previous post (http://cnwmodeling.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-prototype-waybill-16.html) we looked at a waybill with a very complicated route. It turns out that the shipment of lumber was...
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Wimp Packing Co.
A really busy week for me in the Tri-Cities (Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick WA) ended with a drive to Portland today before an early flight home tomorrow. My mind was buzzing with work and I hadn't...
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A Prototype Waybill - 29
Introduction:This waybill looked really familiar when I got the scan from Andy. As I sorted through the previous posts I confirmed it is a near duplicate of a waybill that we looked at back in...
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Loading a UP Box Car on the City of Midland
I recently added a short sequence of slides to my collection that were taken by an unknown photographer in the summer of 1962. This particular shot is one of my favorites:I think this photo was shot...
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A Prototype Waybill - 30
Introduction:Like the last waybill, this one also looked familiar. It is a load of steel plates from U.S. Steel in South Chicago to Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. It is similar, but not...
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Scratchbuilding an EJ&E Gondola
This set of posts is about a project to scratchbuild an Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern 49-foot interior-length mill gondola:(Prototype photograph by Frank H. Peacock, scan supplied by Richard...
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Introduction to the Project
IntroductionI first ran across this car about a week ago while preparing a post in the A&W Waybill series (http://cnwmodeling.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-prototype-waybill-30.html). Under this waybill,...
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