Bill, Since no one has chimed in on this, I will tell you what little I know about this. I've collected Monon photos for about 15 years and have never come across photos of the cars you are

Re: the tank I believe that, at the time of the photo, the tank was called a T43E1. They were built in 1953-1954. They were re-classified M103's in April 1956. I have this belief because: The

Hello Don, No advantage, only the enjoyment of the build. I enjoy the build and detailing of a plastic car just as a resin car. I find if a plastic car is correct and detailed to the same level as

Gene, Thank you for providing a reference to document what I have observed over the last 50 years. Photos of WWII equipment so marked abound with stuff moving to Europe and never listed in the

I haveuploaded some documents found at the Minnesota Historical Society in theNorthern Pacific Co files. These are AARdocuments and the desk staff on site OK'd these of any copyright

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Refrigerator Cars for Box Cars /Service Order

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Gene; There is a gentleman in southern California that has handbrake assemblies hung all over his back yard fencing, but as far as I know, they were never

I find the trucks interesting. Look like Buckeyes but with outboard bolster bearings for stability. It's been a looooong time since I've been around one of those tanks but it does not look ready for

Why are you puzzled it's "USA" and not "USAX?" "USA" was a valid reporting mark assigned to the United States Army. As was "USAX." As far as I know they're still considered valid reporting marks by

That¹s an M103 heavy tank. Since it was deployed in 1957, this just qualifies as STMFC material. LOL! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Reply-To: STMFC List

 LNE is easy ... they didn't have any. Neither did LV unless you count the ephemeral series that wentto B&O/M&K shortly after delivery. Both had generally similar cars builtbefore USRA designs were

In general the reporting marks "USA" instead of "USAX" identified US Army freight cars intended for or actually in foreign service. Foreign service usually meant Korea or Germany but some cars and

Well, it's being odd to me, so I'm submitting it here for comments. Here's a link: http://en.valka.cz/files/tank_t43_zd_418.jpg

Hi, all - I'm looking for some information as to when specific roads upgraded their USRA hoppers to AB Brakes, or handbrakes. The roads I'm interested in

I don’t know if there is an EL group, an Erie Lackawanna group on Yahoo. Probably, given the vast array of groups out there. But what I suggested to John is that he might want to be on the

That is correct on both counts. After’46, the ERIE seemed to chase down all the small diamond cars and repaint them, in some cases repainting ONLY the diamond. There are photos of small-diamonded

Garth Groff wrote: As Bruce Smith accurately stated, the built-up and Bettendorf underframes are distinctly different, and yes, the Tichy one is intended as a 40-ton built-up version. But in

P.S. I forgot to mention, I have a lettering diagram for Erie Auto Box cars which shows the change to the yellow diamond on 1/17/1944 and the change to the white 6' diamond on 12/17/1946 (diagram

A little clarification. Schuyler e-mailed me and asked what I meant by the moribund Erie group. Apparently there are two groups here, the one I belong to is the Erie Railroad Collector and Modeler

I'll add to Guy's reply. Prior to ICC Service Order 104, the ICC issued Service Order 95 on Nov 9, 1942 appointing an agent of the ICC to control movement of refrigerator cars and created an advisory