In STMFC, Al Kresse commented "I was never there, but my Dad was there in 1938 for Ordinance Corps Basic Officers Training." I suspect spell check struck again. As a former Army Ordnance officer

Ed - Many, many thanks!!! You have been a tremendous help in keeping us on the prototype "straight and narrow!" Anxiously awaiting an import.... A. T. Kott

Are the decks the same on the two cars? Kevin Sprayberry

Was Peter Murphy and possibly his son still involved? Were their large stampings (first Murphy then Dreadnaught, etc. trademarked) still produced at Hobart, Indiana, just south of US Steel's Gary

Tim O'Connor wrote: I first realized the timing on the Stanray change when I was systematically going through all issues of Railway Age, over 25 years ago when researching for the PFE book. The

I was never there, but my Dad was there in 1938 for Ordinance Corps Basic Officers Training. I was retired (after 3 years) Regular Army Captain, Armor Corps, with Airborne Infantry MOS from my VN

APG is about to increase by 50%, my sister lives in the area and a great deal of work is being done to make entering and exiting the base much more efficient. In fact, my sisters house has seen a

OK, we all know that APG is a small post (at least as far an number of personnel is concerned) but about half of us were stationed there at one time or another. We also know that the main job of APG

Slight correction. The US Army moved the Armor Center from Fort Knox. The Army still has a training center there at Knox. The Armor collection was moved to Ft. Benning and some exhibits there are from

Mark Rickert wrote: "The army pulled out of Ft. Knox and took the museum collection with it when they left." Not all of it: http://www.generalpatton.org/news/news.asp Ben Hom

The army pulled out of Ft. Knox and took the museum collection with it whenthey left. Mark Rickert In a message dated 6/30/2014 9:16:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time,STMFC@... writes:

Tony's comment inspired me to do some digging... Technically, Standard Railway Equipment become a SUBSIDIARY of StanrayCorporation, and both names appear together in the 1961 Car Builder Cyclopedia.

A.T. Kott wrote: Small point of nomenclature: the Standard Railway Equipment Company did not begin to refer to itself as "Stanray" until after the term of this list, and my opinion no roofs of cars

The main spotting feature of the General Steel Castings flat car of any length is the double taper of the sides: http://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Union-Pacific/UP-Freight-Cars/i-r8trPXL/X2 I

A.T., NYC 162000-163999, Lot 743-B, are as follows: Running boards & brake steps: Apex 162000-162999 (1,000) U.S. Gypsum 163000-163999 (1,000) Hand brakes: Ajax first 162000-162499 (500) Miner

I have a picture of what looks to be an identical gon in New Britain CT, 1949. I have tried to determine the road on it. I posted a picture at my blog here: Randy's Layout Blog: Composite Gondola

All the cars have now been spoken for Thanks Ian Clasper

A In the photo that Ben linked, the handbrake is clearly Ajax. But in one of my photos, it appears to be a Ureco. The running boards and brake platforms are Apex. T

Thanks, Tim! In your roof photos, can you see whether they have US Gypsum running boards? Also, can you see what make of handbrake they had? A.T. Kott

? Dick, there are TWO photos in the Color Guide, and one photo from 1969shows a car with its original roof and the large diamond herald. Tim O'Connor