Photo: Santa Fe Boxcar 28582 (Bx-O)

A 1911 photo from the University of Pittsburgh Digital Archives:

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A201203.1911.3395/viewer

Scroll on the photo to enlarge it.

Too bad there are some obstructions.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

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Do you have any information as to when coiled steel was first moved in quantity? By coiled steel I mean the type of coils we see today. I could find no information on the internet on the history of the product.

Thanks,

Scott Kremer

Athearn produced a version of the Roundhouse Old Time stock car that slipped my notice, and I sure would like to find one for my collection. It is the ATSF version painted for Kraus Livestock Commission. If anyone knows where to find one, I sure would like to get one. 

Nice car!

AL B.

Nicely done Fenton!  I have that kit in my stash....somewhere!

Jim Brewer

Fenton 

Richard,

Just finished this vent boxcar.  It was released by the C of G HS and produced by Jim King.  Excellent kit and fun to build.  Here in Pinehurst the Southern Piedmont Rwy shops have built 2 vent boxcars.

Looks like the  hi-walkway tank cars found on Westerfield's AC&F disc. The walkways look like they were modified from the originals with the railing placed inboard close to the thank instead of around the outside. The end ladders have been removed but the side ladders are still there. The overall construction of the car including the bands tying the tank to the frame and the underbody looks like the AC&F cars. Funaro and Camerlengo have a kit of the 8000 gallon AC&F hi-walkway tank car. Thanks for posting this. It will be helpful to me when I build my kits.
Richard

Anytime Challengers are involved it is a good thing, so maybe that is why the Clinch field’s Train #97 “The Florida Perishable” is my favorite named train. As the schedule shows #97 was assembled on the Charleston & Western Carolina in Augusta, Ga. consisting of refrigerator cars—and depending on the season possibly Ventilated boxcars—originating on the ACL, FEC and SAL, Fruit Growers Express territory of course. Even before and after wartime operating rules, Fruit Growers was notorious for appropriating reefers from other companies so while #97 would have consisted of largely of FGE, WFE, and BRE cars, there likely would have been one or two PFE, SFRD, MDT and ART and other reporting marks mixed in at any time.

From Augusta the C&WC took #97 to Spartanburg, S.C. where the Clinchfield would couple one its Challengers to the train (in later years EMD F-5’s would handle the train). By this time, depending on the growing season, perishable commodities harvested in South Carolina and Georgia would be in the consist and no doubt in the next 12 hours as it proceeded north through North Carolina, Tennessee and into Elkhorn City, Ky. it would be loading seasonal produce from those states.

The C.C.&O. owned three classes of 4-6-6-4 types. E-1 and E-3 were based on Delaware & Hudson designs while the E-2 were secondhand D&RGW locomotives built under the War Production Board to a Union Pacific design. The Rio Grande did not like them and as soon as they could put them up for sale. The Clinchfield snapped them up and promptly shopped them to redraft them with a single stack. More slippery than the E-1 and E-3 classes, the E-2’s nevertheless worked their share of #97 assignments.

As the schedule shows the C&WC and Clinchfield were but a modest part of #97’s transit that would take it over several other lines as the consist began to break up enroute to numerous cities including Toronto.

Bill Welch

Tony and David Thompson:

The Monon had two cars identical to the SAL water car. They were 8000 gallon cars used for transporting diesel fuel and waste oil. The Monon picked them up on the used market after WWII, but I've not located any more information than that.

Mont Switzer

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David Thompson wrote:

This is one of those tank cars built in the 'Teens with the underframe commonly attributed to Standard Tank Car, but I believe the high-walkway cars were built by Pennsylvania Tank Car before STC started up. This car was probably purchased from GATX sometime in the late '40s or '50s.

This particular high walkway does not look like the kind originally built early in the 20th century. It looks to me more like a homebuilt addition when it was in MW service.

Tony Thompson
tony@signaturepress.com

Over on the left of the photo, I wonder if they're installing a track scale.


Ed

Edward Sutorik