Ok, going for a second dumb question of the day: if the peddler car immediately followed the engine and was dropped at the depot, was the caboose spotted anywhere in particular? A slight familiarity

Ike - Unless I'm mistaken, a peddler car is a car loaded with LCL freight for various points along a run. As I understand it, these cars were usually placed right behind the locomotive and were set

Ike, a peddler car was the package/LCL car on a local or way freight which was used for picking up and leaving LCL shipments at the local stations. Jack

There was another very obscure "local" freight service that I have only seen in the Southern's tariff. Assuming the name describes the service "Peddler Cars" were (I assume) cars that were set out

Dave: It’s not scanned (should be) but I will look for the two Package Car directories we have. There was probably a package car out of Spencer transfer, maybe more than one depending on how much

I have Greensboro maps from Marvin Black and Greensboro library plus the ICC blueprints depicting the Sears catalog distribution center if you need them for the article too. Dave Sent from Dave Bott'

The Southern conductor wheel reports for the Winston-Salem division in 1934 show a routine set of four 36’ house cars that are opened at every major station on the route to Elkins. Al Brown and I

It appears that most of the large railroads published a "Directory of Industries" circa 1940, and they often included a lot of info about the cities served as well. An absolute gold mine of info. My

Another thought, Mike - If you're interested in a specific location - i e, Atlanta, Charlotte, etc. - a directory from a connecting line would contain the same information. Such directories usually

They occasionally show up at railroad memorabilia shows, but when they do, they aren't cheap. The last one I saw (circa 1930) changed hands at something over $100. You also might monitor ebay. Bob

Dumb question of the day: where might one find a copy of SOU directories of industries? Specific interest is circa 1950 but any year would be helpful. Thx. Mike Turner MP-Z35

At some point Sears moved its business over to its trucking subsidiary, Terminal Freight. Remember the baby blue trailers? We handled quite a few trailers for them into Atlanta, although I don't

I'm not sure. Dick

Jack and Dick: Great information!…. Dick: Do you remember if your shipments went out on the PRR or B&O? I have always known about package cars but did not realize how significant the business was. I

When I went to work for Southern Railway in Greensboro in 1971, a few vestiges of package car service still existed, although I didn’t appreciate them at the time. Southern apparently turned over

<< Here are two items that will be included in a package car article being researched for TIES. We have two complete package car schedules in the SRHA archives, if anyone can copy or donate anything

When I was with Wabco at that time we were directed to make shipments from Pittsburgh in the daily Spencer Transfer car, arriving 3 days later at Spencer. Dick Fisher

Here is an aerial photo of the Spencer Transfer, which is mentioned prominently in the document that Ike posted. This is just south of the shops, adjacent to what is now called "Old Spencer Yard". The

I “get” the two spellings but why did the railroad(s) chose to use the archaic version on car sides but not the contract wording? …..I’ll go with Bill Schafer’s “Victorian” era concept.

Ike, Per a dictionary, "despatch" has the same meaning as "dispatch", but was a common spelling in the 19th century before dispatch became the more common spelling. Darrell Sawyer