I think that is highly possible. I remember old "floodlights" in storage in a yard somewhere that looked awfully like big versions of a spelunking lamp. Elden Gatwood

Spelunking lamps most certainly were. I remember them well. They went drip, drip, drip onto a pile of carbide, and produced light. Elden Gatwood

Gang; I thought for a bit that it might be PRR's idea for a "waycar" as an expedient during WW2. PRR was rebuilding X23 box cars as NX23 cabin cars, and this might've blended that concept, thus the

Yes, The Railway and Engineering Review, February 23, 1901, page 100 Howard Garner Virus-free. www.avast.com

Claus, Ah, no, because the B50 is still on the rolls in 1953 as car 10001 in the ORPTE http://pennsyrr.com/kc/passops/downloads/orpte_5301.pdf​ Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith, Temporarily in Chicago,

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

On 5/15/2018 1:08 PM, David Soderblom wrote: When I was in Korea around 69/70 they had small containers? that used it for just that, welding. Saw lots of them.