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

Thanks Bill. Too bad it has swing doors, or Accurail could use this emblem on their new 40' plug door reefers. Tim O'Connor

Dennis Ahem. I'll offer a gentle reminder that airslides all use pneumatic outlets, and they began to appear in 1954. Even gravity-pneumatic outlets were offered by 1960, if not earlier. The 1961 CBC

Unless they are drovers, of course, in which case their olfactory senses would have been obliterated long since. Barry Bennett. writes: Bruce sent me the link in an off-list email, and it

Tom, I doubt that the stock car critters would complain, but.... Chuck Hladik tcmadden@q.com writes: Bruce sent me the link in an off-list email, and it worked from there. Why it didn't

Bruce sent me the link in an off-list email, and it worked from there. Why it didn't work from the link in Tim's post when I read it on the web, I don't know. Same link, as far as I can tell. I never

I had absolutely no problem in Google Chrome, Firefox, IE. Firefox is my default, so that was first. Google is faster than any, and it was second. IE being my least favorite, was last, but no

I think for the most part pneumatic discharge gates postdate the 1960 cut-off of this list. You might have better luck on the Baby Boomer Freightcar