Folks;

Have any of you turned up any more on these cars?

https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_12857

Was there a method behind the madness of using wooden box cars, and not hoppers, for shipping potentially hot coke?

I have not found the correspondence on this, but would sure like to understand.

Elden Gatwood

Folks;

How were these racks used?  If for poultry, how unloaded?

https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_12653

Thanks!

Elden Gatwood

Another interesting shot, Bob.  I don’t recall seeing an end constructed this way as early as 1947.

Was this car in service in this scheme, or is this a builder’s image which was repainted after the photo was taken?

Schuyler

Thanks, Bob, for sending these around.  This shot in particular is amazingly sharp,  It’s almost clear what even the small the lettering is on the car. 

And one other thing: after looking at this car, are we still debating how deep the scoring on our models to replicate the appearance of cars like this?  This makes my old Main Line Models cars look very realistic.

Schuyler

Guys;

That photo was the topic of much conversation when it first was posted on the Pitt site.

That and a group of adjacent photos were taken to document how utility improvements were affecting the ROW of the 3 railroads, P&LE specifically, being in foreground. 

That SOU box car is, IMO, bound for the Gimbels warehouse on the Whitehall Branch of the PRR, to rear.  I would bet it has (or had) a load of furniture to be sold in the downtown headquarters of the Gimbels Department Store.  It and the Union RR gon are sitting in PRR’s 21^rd St Yard which runs to right as stub tracks, and left to their juncture at 23rd Street.  PRR and P&LE used the Allegheny & South Side RR for local switching of the industries further downstream to right.

Elden Gatwood