When the local pulled in at Carver the first thing was water the horse, then pull the LCL car up to the depot to unload. The LCL was piled up in the car in...
Thanks for the help guys! Last night I looked for the handout from Mark Vaughan's wonderful seminar on LCL at last year's Cocoa Beach meet. Here's his...
Vern when were you agent at Perry? I have an undated LCL Schedule booklet published by the M&StL, which lists you as agent at Perry and announces the green box...
Doug, Thinking more about LCL. Sometime in the 50's the LCL was switched from Box Cars to Contract truckers. Spellacy had the contract here in Minnesota,...
The 'green box car' ad dates is as 1952. Clark Propst Mason City Iowa ... From: "vernwigfield" <vwigfield@...> To: <mstl@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday,...
Clark, What are your thoughts about your recent operating session at Bill Darnaby's layout? Did you learn anything about your layout or anything you can share...
Vern, should have known you weren't that old... 1948-1966 covers a lot of time, but doesn't help date the LCL Freight Schedule booklet. I knew the ad would,...
Latest postings had a couple mentions of side-door cabooseses. One with regard to transport of cream cans and another with regard to LCL. Seems we need a...
Chuck was me with the laser cut plastic kitbash using a Roundhouse caboose. The dimensions of the caboose were off so much it was unusable. I've thought of...
Spellacy had a plaquered on the trailer side. Did Brady? I have photos of similarly painted trailers with and without. Clark Propst Mason City Iowa ... From:...
Clark one photo I have shows the front of the trailer, with a large "Brady" painted across the front of trailer so you can see it above the truck cab. The...
Spellacy motor began the MSTL Minnesota LCL about 1956. This was great overnight service daily to all Minn points except the Minnesota Western which was still...
How does the REA fit into this? I know they sometimes had black & gold signs on depots. Their trucks were pulled up to the passenger trains at the depot....
"Freight forwarders were a private business doing volume LCL for various points. Minneapolis had two of them, National and Universal carloading. " Len Vick ...
from Wikipedia: The Railway Express Agency came into being when the USRA, United <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Railroad_Administration> States...
Doug, The Q agent at Albia made more in express commissions than he did from the RR. Some REA locations were very lucrative especially if they handed live...
Clark, I think you can stick with Mark's definition. It was LCL, which means "less than car load" meaning LCL could be a single small package or a large number...
... ============================================= Well, partially correct. When REA was put in the drink forever, the real beneficary was UPS AND The United...
Hi Group: I've got a couple new pictures up in the creamery photo album. Also, have determined that Fargo, ND/Moorehead, MN had the Cass Clay Creamery and the...
Something else to add before this gets too far off-topic: Ironically, though the USPS helped block REA's attempts at becoming what UPS is today, interestingly,...
Chuck and group, tell me how many are interested, put up a few bucks apiece, I will fabricate a master and have them injection molded in styrene or other...
Sorry group, I forgot to put "creamery" in the subject line of the last message. BTW, Amour had a creamery in Fargo too. See creamery album. Richard Wehr Ft....
Hi Doug: Is that photo in the photo section? Richard Wehr Ft. Apache, Arizona Territory ... From: vernwigfield <vwigfield@...> To: mstl@yahoogroups.com ...
Questions for Len Vick. I took the liberty of quoting a snip of Len's post on another group. I'm having conversations on this subject on three different groups...
Richard, no the photo of Leola is not in the group photos. But to appease you and others, I have created a new photo album "South Dakota". There you will find...
Clark: Yes, they were freight forwarders and usually covered the larger cities, also they concentrated and sought shipments over 2000 pounds. Universal had...
Thank You Doug. That's a great picture. ... From: Douglas Harding <dharding@...> To: mstl@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 7, 2009 1:32 pm Subject: RE:...
Gentlemen, The latest issue of The Seaboard-Coast Line Modeler is now posted on the ACL & SAL Historical Society website at http://www.aclsal.org/. Go to...
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