Can we do a little better that "circa 1948" for the PS-1 boxcar? I have thought the first production cars were completed in 1947 and am trying to pin the date down a bit better. Thanks, Don Valentine

It's possible some of the cars in the series were built with Murphy ends and others received dreadnaught ends. That car builder photo I mentioned is one of only two clear photos I've seen of any of

Fuel Stocks are all cracked similarly. Tank wagons often picked up fuel from exchanges of other brands when needed as they need only dump a brands bucket of additives into the wagon before taking on

Tim, That certainly meets prior info I have. However when I enlarge the photo both the A and B ends appear to have six narrow corragations, not four. I've bought a NYC 41' gon kit with Murphy

George Courtney uploaded > File :/aTrain 001.jpg >https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/STMFC/files/aTrain%20001.jpg This could be from series 175000-178197, over 3,000 all steel gonsw/

Thanks, Tony. Very helpful. Yahoo won't let me edit the post so... Randy -- Randy Hammill Modeling the New Haven Railroad 1946-1954 | http://newbritainstation.com

Sinclair tank cars on the move? Just for the record, on April 9, 1949, UP engine 4018 powered a WB train from Laramie,WY, to Rawlins, WY, containing 59 MTY Sinclair tank cars in addition to 34 other

Companies exchanging gasoline went far higher up the chain than just local jobbers. When working on the river I would see a barge loaded at Ashland and delivered to Chevron. And the barge might

Scott Chatfield wrote: I happen to have a Pullman-Standard brochure plugging the new PS-2. It includes a letter from a P-S employee, dated July 1953, and states that the info may be helpful to the

I'm not sure I've ever seen a Pullman ad or document saying exactly when each of the "PS-#" car types were introduced _by that name_. I've always thought of the PS-# family as being all welded

I thought a photo of this gondola would help in idenfiying the ends as Dreadnaught or Murphy. The second, inside end is identical in the actual photo. The photo is the new upload to Files under

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Randy (not signing his full name) wrote: Yes, in two ways. First, if Gulf doesn't have enough cars at some point, they would go to General American or Shippers or North American and lease a few.

This has all been great stuff, Elden. Thanks! I have actually been researching tank cars for my layout, and it seems my mix is going to be quite different. I'm modeling New Britain, CT, home to

And at least one fuel dealer had the tanks a good hundred yards from the unloading facility next to the tracks. Maybe just in case a fire did occur at the rack, it would keep that fire away from the

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Groups; I decided to add a bit on Paint & Lettering, Regional Issues, Era, and Weathering. This is where the rubber meets the road; the place you model,

Shame about that. His one-piece body for the CN 503500-513499 40' steel-frame boxcar was a nice piece of work and easy to build. I need a few more! Steve Lucas.

In addition to the excellent “general discussions” of tank cars posted by Elden, I have also found Ted Culotta’s “Steam Era Freight Cars Reference Manual – Volume Two: Tank Cars” to be

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Wow, this is turning sour... I was also talking to the BBFCL list, and that was just an example of what folks should be looking at, not a definitive look

Hey Mike, Having four oil companies (West Harding, Whiting, Sinclair and Texas Oil), a refining company (Gulf) and a gasoline service company there in 1948 a few years before the C&O dieselized