I heard it had something to do with the spent barley and/or hops from the making of beer at the brewery, they were taken from the plant and used elsewhere. For what I don't know. I have a "Milwaukee Road guide to Freight Cars" book at home, these cars are described in it.
Marked off another NS Heritage unit off my list today. NS 8099 trailing third out on Z-CHCSSE1 19 in East Dubuque, IL Most people get drunk, others want sex but as for me, I go Railfanning.
AB ships beer in TBOXes now. I like the MRS insulated boxcars. Too bad there's not a model of one in HO scale.
Great picture. I love pictures of section gangs. It's interesting that, in so many of the photos of section gangs, the men look so skinny/gangly (Barney Fife would say they are "wiry") and they did all that grueling work. It's particularly interesting to me because my maternal grandfather, who did that for a living, eventually becoming a foreman, was 6'7" tall and weighed probably no more than 200 pounds. I guess I'm kind of the same way. I was 6'4" when I was young and was skinny but hard work never really bothered me. Of course, it does now because I'm going on 69-years-old with a heart condition. Doug
Its solid maroon color with gold lettering reminds me of the Lehigh Valley. Though the LV was only in western NY, central & eastern PA, and central NJ. The name appears to have 6-7 letters in the first word and 9-10 in the second. Ken, do you any orders from central Kentucky around the Lexington, Frankfort area?
I found it in one of my books -- it's the Frankfort & Cincinnati. Russell is right -- it shut down in the mid-1980s and the rails are gone today. [Photo by Ron Flanary]
Thanks, getting old is tough when things just vanish from the memory banks. Maybe I have been imbibing in too much of the product from this region.
When I looked at the first photo, I thought I could just make out an Alco switcher on Blunt trucks. Then Hardcoaler knocked it out of the park. That sure is a handsome unit! If we get drunk together, we can dispose of any remaining temptation much quicker...there's a century-old hangover in there waiting to be liberated... It'll likely take another century to get rid of that hangover...