Friends, A search on Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rolling_stock_manufacturers#United_States ) shows that the Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Co. was active

For what it's worth, Micro-Trains has done a "Merchants Despatch Four-Pack," a "White Line Four-Pack" and a "Red Line Four-Pack" in N Scale on their Civil War Era cars. I anticipate there will be a

Thank you Seth.I'll check my wheel reports for specific numbers.Thanks again.Armand Premo

Armand, there are many different groups of ERDX reefers. What series do you want to know about? http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-FREIGHT2.htm Near the bottom of the list are ERDX

Tom; Please accept my depest sympathy for you loss of your wife and partner. I lost my wife after 50 yearsand I understand the loss you feel. John Swanson

Zoomed in, the MDT sigh says “New York and Boston.” It also says “OOOO Freight Line” beneath the banner, might be (probably is) “Fast Freight Line.” Schuyler

Rather ironic that the display by the NYC&HRR (note the sign on the roof of the shed) of their freight cars, shows cars that were built by the Harrisburg Car Company, from deep in enemy territory!

Yeah, sorry, I think I introduced exposition into this discussion, also thinking of the World's Columbian... It's interesting that just a dozen years after Matthew Brady, the entire Exhibition grounds

Hi Richard, There is a sign on the roof over the three cars on the left, NYC&HRRR red Line, White Line and Blue Line cars respectively from left to right, that reads: “The New York Central &

Roger Hinman's Merchants Despatch book has a couple of related photos of the same exhibit on p. 90. According to the captions it was the NYC&HR RR's display at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial. I know

Dennis, I suppose the library may have miscategorized the photos, but the numbering and style of the caption block is certainly consistent with that on other photos clearly of Centennial

Looking for information about ERDX Reefers.Are there any current models that are close?Armand Premo

Yeah, but I can't find it in the list of exhibits. There is a building in the western most portion of the grounds that is labeled "saw mill" that looks suspiciously like the pavilion over the cars,

Being an exhibit for the Centennial Exposition dates it to 1876. Jack Mullen

I suspect they are exhibits at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November

Here are two more photo links from the Free Library of Philadelphia. These show new freight cars exhibited by the Harrisburg Car

The problem is they don't teach English in the schools anymore. The intern who wrote the caption meant to say its an earlier era photo of a currently vacant industrial plant. Dennis Storzek

I'd take the "Notes' description with a grain of salt. You do not find steam venting from "vacated industrial plants" . Given Creation Date: 12/8/1949 it seems to fall within a span of significance

An interesting new/old style of what is now called and "auto rack"! Cordially, Don Valentine Virus-free. www.avast.com

Those really don't count, since they are end doors, not ends. The equipment diagram for that lot shows the other end is a normal solid end with horizontal corrugations. I believe those end doors were