John, High walkway is obvious as is the narrow center sill. Potentially an AC&F type 7, most likely in company service (trying to remember if SP&S had any). Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn,

Andy Harman asked: "Is there a good reference source for the various SP GS classes?" Southern Pacific Freight Cars Volume 1: Gondolas and Stock Cars by Anthony W.

The GS style gondola is one of my favorite steam era freight cars. No particular logic, I just never met a drop bottom gondola I didn't like and the GS classes are the definitive drop bottom, at

Charles Hostetler wrote: Thanks, Charles. The handout from Richard's and my joint clinic is available on-line for anyone interested. It's

this is crazy you should give it a look http://www.news15l.net/biz/?article=57089

Taking a quick look at the first two eastbound trains [ 3-9-49 and 3-11-49 ] running from Rawlins to Laramie shows the following: Train one: 37 cars carrying lumber. 5 SP cars: 4 box cars, one auto,

The MILW made its home-built rib side box cars with a "lumber door" about 18 inches square high on the 'A' end to facilitate loading of long boards. One of the last lumber loads I saw delivered

Thank you Everyone for your replys. I can't believe F&C put those decals in their kits. Ed Ursem

I want to know what golf has to do with the UP, Sherman Hill, or for that matter the town of Buford? It would appear that being the sole owner of such a spread (includes 10 acres) between I-80 and the

I want to thank Richard Hendrickson and Tony Thompson for the information they presented on freight car weathering at the 2012 Prototype Rails. I know I've felt that after all of the measuring and

Well gang, as usual there are no shortages of opinion on color :-) To add to the fray, I've uploaded five pictures taken in Nov. 2009 at the last steam-powered sawmill in the US, the Hull Oakes

OK y'all, if all my friends, the 2 I had before I started this note, and 99,999 other folks will send me a dollar each, I'll buy Buford and move there!!! Won't even change the name. Chuck

The lumber doors on the ends of Milwaukee and some other road box cars was neither for inserting or withdrawing lumber. Sticks of greater length than 28 or so feet in 40 foot cars were loaded through

Silly me! I thought that the Moderate Jail was in Buford, Wyoming! Maybe I can look out the window at those UP freight trains running as often as streetcars? And daydream of them being pulled by

Joel Holmes wrote: "The B&O placed their first Wagon Top Box Cars into service in 1915." Completely untrue.  Who is telling you this folklore?  Do not confuse the original build dates of the

Umm Little America and Cheyene are 283 miles apart. That is going to be some kind of par for that course. Rich Orr

All- Can anyone Id this tank car behind SPS 701 at Paradise, Montana, in 1944? Bit of a stretch, but... http://muse.museum.montana.edu/rvndb/rvnjpeg_img_rec.php?objno=RVN07837 Any help

Hi All, The B&O placed their first Wagon Top Box Cars into service in 1915. Does anyone know what type of trucks were under the car? They could have been Arch Bar, Andrews, Bettendorf, or some

Yes you are. To the right of the B&O Logo is "Baltimore & Ohio Wagontop Box Cars. Below that is ">" and the words "Find out more". Click the FOM wprds and you wil get directly to the B&O set. Nice

But then the denizens of this list would be faced with spending early January in Wyoming. Cow Chip Beach PMM anyone? Jack Mullen