Bruce, Elden, Group members, Maybe it is a rebuild of this singleton car: B50 baggage express car #10001, American Railway Express http://digital.hagley.org/PRR_ME04827 Claus Schlund

I can't contribute much more than what has been discussed, but I do note the car also has a bracket for a rear marker. It seems to be equipped for passenger service, but why. Could the Hagley site

Um, why would a car designed to haul something that is very dangerous when wet have _windows_? Scott Chatfield

The Great Northern bought nearly 20,000 40 foot, DS boxcars starting in 1901. Various versions have been modeled in various media and scales by various companies. Were general arrangement drawings

I remember my dad talking about "Carbide lamps." Long ago enough that I can't recall the context or what kind of lamps, but the miner's lamps seems right. Still, boxcar loads of that for

Awesome, thanks! I didn't know Trainlife had come back to life! For along time it seemed to be unavailable... Tim O'

Group, Calcium carbide is the substance for making acetylene. Water plus calcium carbide yields acetylene. Acetylene is unstable in high pressure oxygen and, therefore, containers of calcium

Before portable electric light plants and generators, I believe they used calcium carbide to provide lighting at derailments. Dave Staplin

To add to what others said - that PARTICULAR PM prototype gondola numberbelonged to a 52'6" drop end gondola built by Greenville in 1944, i.e. theProto 2000 gondola. Someone mentioned the DT&I

Many thanks Al! Rather than building another one it now seems that I have to remove a ladder :-) Thanks again and best regards Johannes Gesendet: Montag, 14. Mai 2018 um 22:57 Uhr Von:

Cars were lime-washed between trips in early years to disinfect them, but this was banned (sometime between the wars I believe) as it injured the animals. In later years they were washed out; after

Only the November-December 1982 PrototypeModeler is available on Trainlife at this time. http://magazine.trainlife.com/ptm_1982_11/ The article begins on page 12. Eric

Ben Hom wrote: Two very nice articles, creating a whole bunch of interesting gondolas. They were in the September-October and the November-December issues of PM in 1982. I built a couple of them

When I was in Korea around 69/70 they had small containers? that used it for just that, welding. Saw lots of them. -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax

mea culpa my bad I reversed the effect Rich Orr

Group, Calcium ion, in combination with bicarbonate and carbonate ions. is the the species that causes water to be "hard". Water that contains high concentration of calcium ion, and bicarbonate or

Thinking about the interior photo, and the racks on the floor. The floor isn't necessarily dry, and you really don't want calcium carbide getting wet. (That's how acetylene is generated from it.) So

What about use for portable flood lights at the site of a derailment? Steve Hile

Thank you Ben for the link. I've downloaded and saved the DT&I Mill gon project pdf by Greg Martin. Nice future project.