And, for a shot of an F49 in well "hole" service, see the cover photo on the PRR flat car book. The F49 was a totally unique car, with two variations in class. Unfortunately for this group, built in

Yep. Thanks, Ben! No book handy. Elden Gatwood

Ralph Brown wrote: "'Page 59 of your book says "Although only 16 in number, the class was significant, and seen all over the country in a variety of services...' What did I miss to get from 16 to 20

Hi Elden, Page 59 of your book says "Although only 16 in number, the class was significant, and seen all over the country in a variety of services . . ." What did I miss to get from 16 to 20

thank you very much Eldon, I am trying to figure out which of the F&C kits to purchase and wanted something common vs exotic or rare. Bill Welch

Hi Bill, It appears there were only two Class F28 flats car, 435491 and 435492, both built at Altoona in August of 1927. There were sixteen Class F33 flat cars, built in multiple orders between

Bill; And , part 2, neither was a well "hole" flat. Those were only class F37B, and sometimes F49 with removal of floor boards. There were also some F25 sub-classes that were virtually well holes

Bill; IIRC, there were 20 F33 and only 2 F28's. And see fun attachments. Elden Gatwood

Hoping one of the PRR modelers here can can help me. Which of their Well Hole Flats was most common, their F28 or the F33? Thank you! Bill Welch

Here are few photos of the interesting cars. It looks like their doors were replaced in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Maybe that is when the broad light stripe was added. I am not sure if the stripe

Bruce: OK, but what is the evidence that the PRR bothered to swap out the arch-bar trucks within ~6 years of construction on the early X29s that were so equipped? Unless somebody has a cache of

Bob, No shi… That was not the point of the discussion. The point was how long they were kept on PRR’s X29s. Unless you have information that indicates that PRR had some 1923-24 production X29s

Arch bar trucks were around for a bit longer. June 1937: Nearly 377,000 freight cars (17% of all freight cars) equipped with arch bar trucks. 1940 - Arch bar trucks banned from interchange. Bob

Hello everyone, Three updates this month, worthy of a careful read: 1. I have released a new decal set for IC 53’/60’ GSC flatcars 1957+. Brown or black flatcar, white lettering. Enough

Not claiming the B-5 was their signature car, simply a very interesting looking steel boxcar unlike any other with its heavily riveted drop side sill. Another interesting N&W boxcars was the flush

Tim, Yes. The 1958 WIF roster includes 101-199, 10' IH cars with a 3548 cubic foot capacity. There are only 10 cars shown in the series though. Curiously, I don't

Tim, Typo or not, the two cars do not appear to have the same proportions to my eye. CHP 5547 seems to be shorter, but this could be camera distortion. I suspect it is an X29,

Sunshine offered kits of both the N&W BP/BPa (kits 26.16 and 26.17) and the HPT&D/WIF cars (kits 102.10 and 102.12). To re-emphasize, they're different heights both from each other and from the

We discussed these years ago. Yes, they were 10-0 IH box cars built to the 1923 ARA design. Some of them ended up on the West India Fruit roster. Tim O' -- Tim

it's obviously a typo. the cars are obviously the same height (compare the doors) the cars are not listed in the 1975 ORER. probably in company service at the date of the photos.