This is a late response afer waiting for some background info: You are right it is the Lake Whatcom Railway. In addition to the GN16015 truss rod box car with arch bar trucks and KC brake they

Don't have access to my library, so can't look at the photo Aaron mentioned. Photos I have of armour cars show 40' cars of taller height, different slat arrangements, x brace on the door, a lower

A question for our reefer specialists: is Atlas Master Line 40' wood FGEX reefer any good? Or is it just another randowm car lettered for FGEX? It has a wooden roof and as far as i can see sliding

I have that book as well Aaron and I think you are right certainly fits the bill. Rob McLear.

Nelson, you asked earlier about PFE traffic in the upper Midwest, I have just uploaded a file - NP Reefer traffic Twin Cities Nov 9, 1947. Hope this shines some light. I realize the dates

Not to mention peaked vs radial roof.

Armour Stock Express. Postwar Freight Car Fleet, page 123. Aaron Gjermundson

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 : /Reefer traffic via NP east thru Twin Cities - Nov.

I see on Pierre’s blog someone asked if this could be a M&StL Fowler clone. Photos of M&StL stockcars are rare, very rare. I have one extremely fuzzy photo, which does look a lot like the car in

It looks to be a 36’ car, probably 8’6” inside height or less. Not many roads used that style of side truss, most had the diagonals going the other direction. The high letter boards and lack of

Looks very Mather-like to me, which should narrow it down quite a bit. The letterboards aren't familiar, though I haven't had my head into stock cars in a while. ....Mike Del Vecchio

Definitely not an NP stock car. NP 82000 series has 4 side panels either side of door - car in photo has 3. NP car has radial roof and car in photo does not appear to have radial roof. Matt

I wrote: "y first thought was this car is a Mather, but I've never seen one with letterboards like this car. (The cars leased by the NP lacked letterboards, including the one carrying reporting marks

Pierre Oliver asked: "I just put an image up on my blog, of a train crossing the Kettle Creek in St Thomas, ON.I'd like to identify the first stock car in the consist."

I'm not so sure guys. The prototype images I've looked at for NP cars show a square placard on the lower right for all the dimensional data. That is missing in the car in question. It

Ditto. The lettering is actually on a full length letterboard, two groups of letter that almost fill the left board, and the much shorter number to the right. That says NP to me. Dennis Storzek

Looks like an NP 82000 - 83000 stock car to me. Charlie

I wonder if it could be an M&StL converted Fowler box car... It has the Howe truss, six panels, high lettering-board, and the outermost panels have an actual rib (as indicated by the shadow), not just

Guys, I just put an image up on my blog, of a train crossing the Kettle Creek in St Thomas, ON. I'd like to identify the first stock car in the consist. Any input would be appreciated. The blog post