SAL rebuild 100 former composite gone into auto cars, the A class (first 50) and the A-1 class, (second 50) in 1936 and 1937. I have an ICC report the composite tons that says by 1940 that they

OK, more confusion. One of the guys here sent me a nice photo of one of the LNE composite boxcars. Photo was taken in early 1950's from the autos in the background. Has an interesting round roof.

Hi List Members, I'm cleaning out some stuffI no longer need. I have the following data pack... the topic isweathering - covers flat car decks, but also for other freight cars andsteam locos. Some

Oops. I just re-read Bob Witt’s noteson the SAL automobile cars built from gondolas. Those seem to be a DepressionEra project. But the LNE, WM, and W&LE conversions were not. Eric

Hi Folks, I’m looking for an article that may have been published in the Missouri Pacific Historical Society magazine “The Eagle”. Does anyone know of an index that I may

In the W&LE and WM cases, I suspect therailroads were assessing their fleets and realizing the steel hoppers offeredmore efficient service and a better return on their investment. Their compositewood

That is a beefy end sill on that car! Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Dennis captured the gist of it, but here are a few more details concerning the shell and dome volumes both being listed in the tariffs. 1. Starting in 1917, all new general purpose tank cars

I found this example about a year ago: The drawing is for a SAL class A-1 automobile box cars SAL 9011-9035 (1936) and SAL 9036-9060 (1937). I am intrigued by the note that these box cars were built

Add one more: the W&LE converted 400 wood gondolas in their 43000-43999 and 44000-44999 series into all-wood, double sheathed boxcars in the 22000-22399 series between 1917 and 1918. There were still

This is interesting as another regional railroadwas also converting older gondolas to box cars in the mid-1920s, too. The Western Marylandbegan converting fishbelly center sill, composite

---In STMFC@..., <frograbbit602@...> wrote : I purchased and received in the mail the book titled Tank Car Capacities Tariff, Freight Tariff 300-H, from 1955, showing capacities of tank cars. The

I purchased and received in the mail the book titled Tank Car Capacities Tariff, Freight Tariff 300-H, from 1955, showing capacities of tank cars. The book was digitized by Ian Cranston and

Hi John, Todd Herman is our resident L&NE expert. You can contact him offline at rth_628@.... John Golden

According to Eric Neubauer's LNE freight car book these cars were rebuilt from gondolas by LNE in 1925. They were originally from gondola series 10001-10200 built by PSC in 1916. Hope this helps.

Help!!! I am preparing an LNE roster for 1954 – 1958. Not my primary road (which is PRR) but I amgoing to make a “hypothetical” connection near Bath, PA. Per usual, I want to get things

A new modeling friend in Germany helped me acquire some very small chain, 50 links per inch. Here you can compare it to Abe's head. Now I need to figure out how to attach it as .012 wire is too large

As I recall, Bob Handyman had a close history with Virginia, notably Abingdon. I recall once when he gave me a very, very detailed al fresco run down on restaurants and other amenities in that old

I missed this issue of MR'ing and it is interesting to see the photos. The two inservice photos I purchased of #61513 from "Bob's" do not show any kind of letter board but rather the large "VIRGINIAN"

Eric Hansmann wrote: "I recall the article and was interested in trying the techniques, but then I looked up the car series in the 1943 ORER and was disappointed with the small quantity of these cars