The end car, riveted with stake pockets, matches up with CMStP&P 67051 and 67053. Between '49 and '52 they were renumbered to 601051 and 60152. Later, Bill Kelly On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:37:36

Elden: That's the summary I was expecting, with regard to where those cars actually were as their reported numbers were declining. Considering how many resin and plastic cars I'm currently working on,

 Hi Bob and List Members, Thanks Bob for the reference to that nice image. Other good images can be found on the site. Some of my favorites are at the links below. Unloading containers of

I forgot to mention! Funaro & Camerlengo now have an SP F-200-1 model flat car. I bought the kit at the Springfield show. It's catalog #8471. (Misprinted labels say

Dan Well, he did say "brake wheels" to me - but it could have been a slip of the tongue. MODERN is of course relative - MOST brake wheels from the late

I’m aware that in the 1950’s and 1960’s the Nickel Plate rolled wood boxcars and cabooses off of their trucks and onto their sides where they were burned. They then salvaged the remaining metal

I wonder if the building was a 'boxcar burner'? Back in the late seventies I had some dealings with Purdy Co., a scrap merchant in Hammond, Indiana, located just north of State Line Tower. We were

Placard: Tin Cans Just to show that tin can loads were called out for special handling: https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N082_0371_001.jpg Description: "SCRAP RUBBER COLLECTIONS BEGIN

Fabulous story, Mont! Wish I could have seen that. Elden Gatwood

Another source of door sreening for ventilated boxcars is Precision Scale #48262. I do not know the size of the screening used on the prototyes and wonder of anyone has ever thought to measure this

I spoke to them last fall at the Narrow Gauge Convention in Sacramento. At that time I was told it would be 6 months to a year on some items. They had just acquired the physical assets of Rail

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request. While I’m not a y'all road modeler, one of these neat cars could occasionally make an appearance. -Clark Cooper

During the early 1990's I made regular visits to Altoona, PA on business. While there I observed a metal building being built in an industrial area. It was sort of like your typical steel building

Ron; Yes. Those X29, and X28A that did not get chosen for the X29B, X29D, X29E, X29F, and X29G rebuilding campaigns were being set aside for scrapping, from the late fifties thru sixties, when they

Boy will they be surprised when they find out that boxcar kit is actually a reefer. I suppose it was ebayed and not in the original box. ;^) Jack Mullen

Westerfield instruction sheets rarely show car end data, no matter the era, even in as-built lettering. No help there. Perusing all the Focus on Freight Cars books (images are 1930's) and the Steam

Edited message follows: Hi john, et al., Drawing from your listing of possible candidates, and being a certified (or maybe certifiable) SPF, I did a little research regarding the PRR cars

Hi john, et al., Drawing from your listing of possible candidates, and being a certified (or maybe certifiable) SPF, I did a little research regarding the PRR cars listed. The hundred PRR Class

Wright Trak was furnishing instructions on a small size CD for the V-9 and V-10 cars unle he finally changed to rinted ones. Cordially, Don Valentine

There aren’t many possibilities. We can eliminate the short FM and FG cars, aswell as the FD and FW cars. That leavesthe following FM flats from the Oct44 ORER list of Heavy Capacity Flat