... curious about the shell ballast. Since I have a few laying hens I feed them crushed oyster shell as a calcium and grit supplement. ... worked over some...
... Except in the sense that locomotives steadily got heavier over the years, I don't know what this means. The big jump in locomotive size was near the turn...
I know it is not the tno, but sometime between about 1955 and about 1961,I used to hang around the team track near ardis or atkins street on the SSW at...
... Well, of course, leave it to someone trying to make a vague point to misspell a crucial word, viz.: locomotives and car[s] got heavier. But I think Tony...
... Not a particularly good place to start. The PRR, if it was ever the "Standard Railroad of the World," certainly wasn't after WW I. Equipment Registers,...
... Serves me right for sticking my head into a discussion and making an unsubstantiated -- except by recollection -- statement. I defer to Tony's superior...
Jim Warsher wrote: "The only reason I mentioned it at all was as an illustration that heavier trains would have the effect of pulverizing the oyster shell ...
Hi List : With the patient and understanding assistance of a long-serving former member of the T&NO Engineering Department, I have panned out a few more...
... An interesting aspect of the black slag ballast was that the high metallic content could cause track circuits during damp or wet weather. ... The gravel...
... Copper slag is indeed quite black when fresh, but color photos of west Texas from the 1960s do NOT show black ballast, more gray in color. Perhaps this is...
... -- Hopefully there will be more action on November 4th. than on some prior weekends in Flatonia.. Due to the blasted "quiet zone" in SW Houston, it is hard...
... He said that the main lines (GH&SA, H&TC, ... can. ... yes, Gandy was one of the big supplier of rock on the line) in the 40's. I have never heard of what...
... Bill and Listees : It looks like Steve Goen rather rides to the rescue on this question. On p.81 of his T&NO color pictorial there is a photo taken in 1959...
Just a tidbit. I noted on the Texas Tide website an article on the HEWT RR. The locals said the ride was so rough they called it " Hell Either Way Taken". ...
Tommy,I can't make it down there for that weekend.I will be down for Czhilispiel though.Looking forward to meeting with you.By the way,I finally got back into...
Someone who hired out on the T&NO at Lafayette, LA in 1955 told me that the cabooses back then did not have radios (or electricity), but the diesels did; so...
,_._,___ Now that I am back in Texas, I can provide some information on this subject. SP locomotive assignments for several time periods in the 1953 and 1955....
Around the Cuero area, Cureo red gravel was used, I heard that it was also used on the SP down in the Valley. SP had a pit in Cuero about where the Wal mart is...
Another note, when they starting digging out the underpass for the Navarro St. crossing they cut into the early rr roadbed and it showed that a large amount of...
Verhelle is still a very active source, although I believe all of the ballast is trucked to the main. At least one set of CHTT equipment appears to be ...
... The trains are Hunter to Irish Creek rock jobs (RHTIK). Hunter is Colorado Materials. <http://leonard.tamu.edu/Trains/CenTexRock/> -- ... LnCS ===...
Several times I've seen these trains heading through Aloe. Other equipment in the recent past (Herzog gons, etc.) has been utilized to Placedo for the ...
ON the Texas state archives website is 1879 H&TC public timetable, showing North and south and east and west directions for trains. I wonder when all the SP...
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the TNO group. File :...
Just posted 2 pictures of T&NO freight cars in the Freight Cars album. First picture is a tankcar in maintenance of way service. Second picture is a 40 foot...
My guess is that this was taken in San Antonio at East Yard TNO@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file...
Jim, The box car is from class B-50-21. See the following: http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/box/b050-21.htm The tank car has obviously been...
