Doug I don't think that car was done by Robert Leners. I think the car was built from a kit offered by Rails Unlimited. Gene Deimling

They were never in revenue service as far as I know. The number series 200000 and above was for company service cars, and lists several thousand cars without specifying what any of them are in the

When were these in revenue service, and what was their number series? Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Bill, were you aware that these company built (from box cars) were built for non-revenue purposes? Near absolute lack of evidence that these were ever sent off-line with an interchanged load. -Andy

Railway Prototype Cyclopedia, Vol 16 at page 62 reprints an ad from General American Transportation Corp and in the last paragraph it claims leadership in “the new insulated hopper cars from bulk

A question that I have been unsuccessfully seeking an answer for a number of years might be more revalent now. Central Valley has recently released a model of a Northern Pacific 41' flat car. There

Au contraire. First of all the size of the car. Two or three bay covered hoppers carry high density products such as cement, kaolin or lime (or in the good old days, carbon black). Four and five

Bill Thank you for the information. That helps. Blessings Bill

Bill, Dring that era, covered hoppers were not used for grain... In fact that didn't happen until the "Big John" covered hoppers of the Southern in the early 60's. lading like flour wasn't shipped in

How do you tell (or can you tell) if a covered hopper is used for cement, or grain, or other loading. I am asking concerning physical/mechanical devices on the car such as top hatches and hopper

On Thu Mar 14, 2013 George Courtney asked about lettering an S scale 40-ft double-door steel boxcar as an OSL (UP) car and possibly using slogan letters for the reporting marks. FWIW, the SAW

Gene I believe that model was built by Robert Leners. Here are Dave Hussy's photos of that meet. There is no photo of the MILW car, but photos of a couple other cars he displayed.

At Naperville in October of 2010 someone displayed a Milwaukee Road stock car lettered "C.M.STP.&P. 104637." I suspect this car was built in O Scale. I would like to contact the builder or owner of

Bill, The NHRRT&HS "Shoreliner", vol 18, #2 has an article on NH carfloat operations that addresses, I believe, floating of reefers to ships for off-loading of bananas. Might be something in that

Nashville railroad sites include the Tennessee Central Railway Museum: http://www.tcry.org/ The old train station is still standing downtown but has been renovated for other use. Allen Cain

The B&M never seemed to handle much produce or fruit coming into Boston via rail from the American south or west for reasons which should seem obvious. It did, however, carry a fair amount of meat

This looks like the sort of photo taken for the claims agent in a personal injury case. It looks like the photographer has gone over the end lettering with chalk so it would be legible in the

I think in his refrigerator car books but he'd better answer that than me Roger H.

Thank you Roger I will call Bob. Do you remember how he would have these photos filed? Bill Welch

Yes Bill, the New Haven went to Boston. In its final corporate configuration it had acquired every rail line south of the city. It had massive freight yards in South Boston which is only a mile or two