I was on the northbound Coast Starlight a couple years ago. Through all those curves on Cuesta hill, I was in the lounge car with fifty unwashed. On the rear of the train was a Soo Line business car

If you are close to Ludington, MI, or Manitowoc, WI, its possible to see, hear, and smell a piece of 1950s steam era freight equipment that is still in revenue service. The SS Badger no longer

Good evening all, My apologies to anyone who could not open the Shorpy photo of the SS Detroit with the deck load of stock cars etc. I should have included better information to locate the photo so

On the upper deck or structure above the four gentlemen is an article that looks like a modern day propane tank. Any idea what it was? That Mather car on the end looks to be no more than 26 feet

Oh, and the smell of all that coal smoke. That is something I miss already. And I bet in the future -- say year 2011-- there will be people that have never had a whiff of it in their entire

Bud, The Southern railway was a big user of Morton "Open Grip" running boards. The first 50 foot boxcars to be equi8ped with them were 41500-41549, 40200-40249 and 41500-41549. These runnning boards

One more question for the Soo knowledgeable. One of the Branchline 1430 40' decorated cars, marked NEW 11-51 and with the words SOO LINE high and close to the door, has black (car cement) ends. My

Oh, that this were the case. (steam-era content follows) I was on the northbound Coast Starlight a couple years ago. Through all those curves on Cuesta hill, I was in the lounge car with fifty

Not to mention that MILW box car! Photo date Sept 1939 -- Jack's YV

Not to mention that MILW box car! Photo date Sept 1939 -- Jack's YV

Bud, Have you been to the Steam Era Freight Cars sight and checked the boxcar data there? If not, here is a link... http://www.steamfreightcars.com/prototype/frtcars/protofrtcarsmain.html -John

I'll call your bet, and raise

Tom, in my case, with the current version of Opera, it failed twice, and worked twice, using the same address, pasted into 4 different windows.  Go figure.  On a better note, there are a few more

Tim, I'll see your "even better" and raise you a "best"... with the following link : http://www.shorpy.com/node/10695?size=_original Tom, All the record... all of the links have worked fine for

Tim O'Connor wrote: Or an LP or a typewriter or a transistor radio . . . the list is unfortunately readily expandable. Young railfans may be confused by ice reefers or running boards or even

Tim O'Connor wrote: Thanks for the kind words, Tim, about my RMC article. But that was well before I had found ALL the prototype data, now collected in my volume on SP box cars (Vol. 4 of the

lol! Bill there are hundreds of millions of youngsters who don't even know what a videotape is (is that like a DVD?), much less coal smoke. I mentioned Prohibition this morning to my 15 yr old

Jim It's not always a fool's errand. Tony Thompson back in 1993 wrote an article on SP 40' steel box cars that covered ALL of the permutations of running boards, doors, trucks, and brakes -- It is

Hello Group, Oh, and the smell of all that coal smoke. That is something I miss already. And I bet in the future -- say year 2011-- there will be people that have never had a whiff of it in their

In B&O files located in various places, there are a number of Bills of Materials for B&O freight car orders existing for study. These are jaw droppingly insightful. B&O ( ..... and I assume other