Totally agree. The 1934 conductor log used "C" as car type for gondolas carrying coal, but used "G" when carrying other loads. I need to check when a gon was empty (we used car number to identify the

I got curious about a gondola here in town (on a siding), and when I looked inside, it was a load of 4" steel balls. I found out it was destined for a local mine that had a ball crusher being

In the Northern Pacific files, in the President's Subject Files, the Chief Engineering Files and the Mechanical Department files are found a report, Report of Committee on Open Top Dump Cars, this

---In STMFC, I wrote : What aneat photo! The car seems to have the NEW weight stencil, although NEW ismissing due to the lack of space, is suspect. The weigh location is DET and thedate looks like

Does anyone have or know of a source for photos of the Erie flat cars, Class FD, 7208-7212? Any help appreciated. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Heavy Photoshop intervention to remove the perspective and boost the contrast indicates: CCC&StL 50x99 ...which seems to agree with Eric's build data... Copy of the un-skewed photo of the flat car

---In STMFC@..., <jimbetz@...> wrote : Hi, I will theorize that the destination had a lot to do with whether the car used was a coal hopper or a gondola. Especially if the receiver wasn't set up to

I reviewed the image at full magnification and feelthis is a CCC&StL flat car. Note there is a NYC Lines oval beside a farstake pocket. Here are a few NYC Lines flat cars with similarities tothe

Ken, Can you share a link for the image? I donot see any function on the original image with the lime pulverizers on the CCC&StLflat car that will lead to the next, or another, image. Eric

The Santa Fe had thousands of Caswell design composite drop door gondolas. You see them in a lot of pictures of coal mines in Colorado and New Mexico and in long strings in trains going up and down

The second picture shows the flatcar being lettered "C&NW" - Chicago & Northwestern. Also in the second picture, note in the background the various Norfolk & Western hopper cars. Ken Montero

I have a shot of a P&LE 65 foot mill gondola loaded with coal. :-)

Does anyone have photos of or know of the existence of GATC Type 30 underframe tanks of the UP O-50-6 and SP O-50-13 style (Athearn tank car) lettered for regular carriers, e.g. GATX or lessees of

There are many examples of gons, including a fair number off-line, carrying coal, in the Bob Charles Collection that was the fodder for the NMRA Postwar Freight Car Fleet book. Off the top of my head,

Hi, I will theorize that the destination had a lot to do with whether the car used was a coal hopper or a gondola. Especially if the receiver wasn't set up to unload by opening the doors below.

Tim, The photo date is noted as 1911, a full decade before the NC&StL cars were built. The box car lettered for NYC&HR would also indicate a pre-1920 date. It looks like there are three letters

​Barry, That is EXACTLY the correct interpretation. Bagged carbon black would be allowed, but not bulk carbon black. Presumably, small spills from broken bags would be easier to clean than a

The C&O/PM used used Ore Jennies in captured coal service in a pinch. These cars, designed for higher density ore, had extended sides for carrying lighter coal loads, and they refueled the Lake

Versatility was an issue. As labor costs went up, you could rationalize the cost a trestle and dumping coal via hopper doors . . . . or getting a crane with a bucket. Power plants began to seriously

It was "gondolas to the Lakes AND hopper cars to Tidewater for the C&O and N&W railroads up to WW One. Their Tidewater ports had high high-piers with side bunkers to dump coal in to load the coal