What is NB? Jerry Michels In a message dated 5/31/2009 8:01:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, jfboxer@... writes: I am curious **************An Excellent...
I picked up your book. I am really enjoying it. Having grown up in Spring though I was sad that you only had one picture from there, on page 55, of the old...
Randy, sounds great. If you scan those in that would just about give me all I'll need to start. I'll be sure to post some shots when I get done weathering...
Dick, RR china reference books mention a later version of this Sunshine service plate which is backstamped Missouri Pacific (rather than Iron Mountain) and...
The Atlas U-23B with AAR is almost correct for MoPacıs units. One difference is the Farr Dynavane internal filter. The small lower filter had wire screen...
Joe, what about unit 2250 to 2256 ? If i look to photos of these units, it seems to me they had ALCo-trucks too. Joerg "Joe Altnether" <jpallc2506@...>...
Hi, Probably a long shot, but does anyone on either list have the F&C Missouri Pacific panel sided gondola kit with interior detail they'd like to part with?...
Hi, I am currently working on this cab and am looking for anyinformation out there. It is located in Hendersin Texas at the Depot museum. Thanks for any info...
Jim, This is a T&P steel caboose. Originally a wooden caboose built by the T&P in 1903 and numbered 2217. It was rebuilt numerous times as a wooden caboose...
Hi Jerry, Thank you so much for the information. I have plans for this cab but will most likely stay with the current refit. I recently opened the interior ...
... out there. It is located in Hendersin Texas at the Depot museum. ... A search of Flicker came up with a caboose number of 12433, but the box shows your...
Was coal used for home heating in SE Missouri - NE Arkansas in the 50's? I'm considering extending a track beyond my feed and seed supply company to include...
I would be almost certain of this. Until the clean air laws started to become active, and in areas where there were not natural gas pipelines, almost all...
I found this interesting link: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/fuels.html Google is your friend. :-) Patrick ...
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I remember getting cinders in my eye in downtown Saint Louis in the late forties. By then only some businesses and old houses in the city would have used...
I clearly recall (because I was already a railfan) in 1970 there was an article in the Wichita paper about the last retail coal dealer in Wichita closing down....
Both of my grandparents lived in south St. Louis city near the Mopac's Carondelet sub. Both converted from coal furnaces to natural gas immediately after...
We used coal until about 1963 or 64 in Webster Groves (suburban St. Louis) and a number of other houses on my street made the change over about the same...
... to ... I was still using coal in my rented home in Barnhart, MO (25 miles South of St. Louis) in 1968 thru about 1970, and coal was being used locally...
I know Stephens Coal Company still had a coal dump and sold locally in Washington, MO, in the mid to late 1960s (I can somewhat date it because I remember...
I got a call from a bud on the coal subject pointing out not many homes is my modeled area (south of Poplar Bluff to just across the ARK border) had basements...
extract for Mo and Ark from http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/fuels.html for 1 9 5 0 Occupied units reporting heating fuel Utility gas ...
to correct for Arkansas vs Alaska ... From: Jerry Glow Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:19 AM Subject: House Heating Fuel corrected extract for Mo and Ark from...
Possible coal users in a mid-size town after WWII: the school one good-sized office building (maybe the biggest in town) the courthouse some industrial...
We had coal stoves in several rooms. No furnace. No one in our neighborhood had a coal furnace. Plus, less than half of the ones who converted to fuel...
Hi Jerry, I think every little town had someone who handled dry commodites such as sand or gravel or even fertilizers like agricultural lime or even "Chile...
Jerry, This doesn't exactly answer your question but I'm thinking your are looking for an excuse to deliver coal loads to a small town. In my home town in...
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