I have spent the evening searching the archives for useful information as to collecting a representative collection of U. S. roadname (fruit and vegetable) refrigerator cars FGE, PFE, SFRX, ART?

Is there anyone who might be able to help Andy with his question below? I don't believe he is on this list; please CC him. Earl Tuson

Could someone on the STMFC with appropriate engineering credentials help me design a rack to display 10 or 12 steam era freight car hand brakes for a museum display? Please contact me directly.

Yes, you're right, Richard, all were delivered with Youngstown doors. I do have pictures of cars with five- and six-panel Superior doors, thought he six-panel doors are far more common. Thanks

You may want to try posting to the two milk train groups on yahoo. Neither are very active, but once something is posted the reposes are generally pretty quick. Jim Fellows From:

Mal Houck Wrote: To my knowledge, they were at one time painted with a orange tank body on a black frame. Mal, Thanks for the Response, but the Orange or Red cars with Yellow lettering were for

Thanks to all for the replies. Marty

Would Anyone know if any of the "Butter Dish" Milk Tank cars that Borden transferred from Milk hauling to Elmer's Glue hauling, "Chemical Division"Would Anyone know if any of the "Butter Dish" Milk

Blue Flag....Rule 26 on most railroads doesn't have much bearing on the Canadian incident.....Blue Flags protect  workers working on or about the cars that are protected by a blue flag....even

John Sykes wrote: Might be worth pointing out that these images are of OSHA-standard signs, long postdating this list. Before 1960, signs were different -- and not standard. Tony Thompson

Thanks, John. Richard

Thanks, John. Richard Hendrickson

Richard: That is one type of "Blue Flag" protection. Take a look here: http://www.aldonco.com -or- http://www.aldonco.com/products.aspx?sec=2&cat=114&subid=20 Lots of fun toys for the 12" to the

Richard Hendrickson wrote: One is in the email to you. Tony

Somewhere I've seen a photo of a blue sign attached to a tank car unloading track reading "Stop - Tank Car Connected" or something to that effect. But now, of course, I can't recall where. Can

At least a few others on the list know this, Tom, but Brian may not want his intentions made public yet. In any case we don't know which of the many Scullin freight car trucks he's tooling, and

Hi Richard, I would really like to see an end shot of a DL&W 47000-47999 car when you have time. I gather from an earlier post that you are quite busy now - any time when life is a little less full

Rich, The next truck that Brian Leppert of Tahoe Model Works is workin g on will be a Scullin Truck. At present a delivery date has not been announced as Brian has just released the Barber S2 truck

Marty From those specs the cars sound like 4-bay offset-side ARA hoppers, originally 70 ton cars. Tim O'Connor

One correction, Mike. All the cars were delivered with Youngstown corrugated doors. The Superior 6 panel doors didn't begin to replace the corrugated doors until the mid-1950s. Richard