Re: Good resources...

Gavin Hamilton Wrote:
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Example - H.C.Casserley and
> S.W.Baker both photographed the same train near
> Larne in 1937 which shows "skip" wagons for which
> there are no records at all. One day we might find
> the answer.
> At least we have the photographs to speculate
> about.
>
> G

Gavin, there's a group in Hawaii researching the Oahu Railway. The Oahu Railway had skip flat cars for the dock operation...and there are a couple of unpublished photos of them. While they've been able to shed much light on the OR&L, they don't have the engineering files and pre-WW2 photos of the road are quite rare.

I definitely think that Mr. Goering's work in destroying archives is without a direct precedent in the US There are a handful of gentlemen on the west coast attempting to piece together the construction records from Carter Bros (files likely lost in a fire over 100 years ago) and Scott Trostel has been reconstructing Barney & Smith's construction records (which were restored nearly 100 years ago in a flood). Neither of these are quite the same as having been destroyed by German bombers. It makes me hate to think of what the RAF and 8th Air Force must have done to the DRG records.

Michael