Now you did it... I'll spend a couple hours lost on shorpy again... I love these photos. The resolution and quality of the plate glass negs is very impressive. The thing that always jumps out at me

The car peeking up over the "Biedler" sign on the side of the C&A car in the foreground? About the only single sheathed car I see, which I find a bit surprising. Schuyler From:

Folks, I picked this message up from Brian Moore of another list I belongto. He writes: "It saddens me to report the news that a member of our Group, Bill McKean, died at home inSioux Falls, South

As mentioned elsewhere... Don Strack has placed a major cache of steam-era (1944-1949) photos taken by Emil Albrecht on his SmugMug

Ray In the 1918 Railway Mechanical Engineer volume 92 on page 462 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013032779#view=1up;seq=486 is a photo of the first USRA 55 ton hopper to be

Lot of interesting stuff here. The damaged roof on the IC car on the left. No grab or step on the left side of boxcars. Ant then those boxlike things on the caboose roofs with the slot on the upper

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Notice the single-sheathed box car with wood framing, pointed out to me by Cyril Durrenberger. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

VERY NICE!!!

http://www.shorpy.com/node/16806?size=_original#caption Schuyler

Hi Hugh, The problem here is that Intermountain painted their NYC cars, in their original, 1919 delivery scheme, as brown cars. And while we all "know" that NYC gons were painted black during this

Re: NYC gon and hopper colors It is best to rely on photographic evidence. It is also important to understand that it was not mandatory to completely repaint a car every time it was in the shop.

From the Prototype Rails Lost and Found: 1. One visor. It is equipped with a small magnifying lense and what appears to be rectangular glasses. It was left on a table Saturday night near where the

I once read an anecdotal account of how hoppers of the NYC first started being painted red. Take this with a grain of salt but what I read was that, when the NYC began rebuilding their vast USRA

I have been giving talks and organizing meetings, both professional and model railroad, for 40 years. I'm almost always happy to learn about errors and get questions and comments. As a result of my

There is a great article on building the Westerfield ACL 0-15 ventilatedboxcar and modeling the watermelons that can be seen through the ventilateddoor. gary laakso south of Mike

Eric, When you figure it out let me know. I'm stillconvinced that in 48 the panel side hoppers were still black, at least mineis. Chuck Hladik In a message dated 1/14/2014 11:28:51 A.M. Eastern

Jared Harper wrote: I'm not sure where all the "hijacking" talk comes from. I did not see it in any session I was in, nor did I hear about it while I was there. It's certainly offensive when it

From all the posts regarding "hijacking" presentations at Cocoa 2014 I get the idea that there must have been a lot of that or a particularly irritating individual. I wasn't at Cocoa this year, but

I'll second that! 8>) Jared Harper Athens, GA ---In STMFC@..., <cepropst@...> wrote: I talk about stuff no one else is interested in...LOL! Clark Propst Mason City Iowa

I have been negligent in thanking Dave for his efforts in the past. Even when I do attend the meets I now take less photos as I know Dave has me covered. Thanks Dave. Many, many fine