Fred Jansz wrote: "A Western Pacific car on the B&O! Who would have [thought] that. Bruce Smith wrote: "Why? A WP car on the B&O comes as no surprise at all to me. We’ve documented repeatedly on

My first thought was of a bean separator, such as used for Lima Beans. Not at all uncommon in California. Not many photos, as these were buried inside structures. I have such a bean separator I made

Fred, Why? A WP car on the B&O comes as no surprise at all to me. We’ve documented repeatedly on this list that boxcars traveled the entire country. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith

Bruce, Thanks for the more high res view, but it doesn’t really appear to change anything from our January discussion. It appears to either be a penstock, or some similar water piping or part of

Friends, The WP car is coupled to boxcar GN 47384 (see attached photo) from the same photo sequence. They are on a siding headed to the Doughnut Corporation of America, a plant which milled and mixed

Hi List Members, We have a nice view of the trackside unloading equipment for a bulkj oil dealership at the link below... https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM20303 No steam era

Related to air handling, could also be a plenum to conduct flue gasses from a furnace to a smoke stack. Dennis Storzek

Has look of a large air-handling system. Structure doesn't look heavy enough [i.e, the cross-sections of the sheet metal] to handle water. Nice shot, love gon loads, Thx Rich Chapin Basking Ridge, NJ

As an engineer who has built all kinds of pipework for handling water, and all kinds of ductwork for handling air, I would lean towards the gon loads being the latter. The bracing seems too light for

John and Friends, I wonder if the two cars to the left of the locomotives in this view are Western Union. They appear to be converted passenger or head end cars. This is Roper

Friends, Very interesting indeed. It is a Mt. Vernon 40', 10'6" IH AAR boxcar with 6' doors, part of series 20201-20550 built in 1945. It would have been painted FCR with

Tim and others interested, WP 20243 also caught my eye immediately of course. A Western Pacific car on the B&O! Who would have thaught that. However 20243 is not from the 20001-20200 'shorty' 9'6"

Hi Tim, Given the size, I suspect a sluiceway or penstock for a dam is more likely. Pax, Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com

Looks more like a component for an electricity generating water turbine system for a dam somewhere Brent ________________________________ Dr. J. Brent Greer

looks like industrial-size duct work... for moving air. lots of it. WP 20243 is a 9-6 IH version of a 1937 AAR box car (normally 10-0 IH) Anyone ever make resin kits for the "low

Nice find. Until about 1914, Western Union line forces were often housed in camp cars leased from the railroads they were working along, since Western Union telegraph lines nearly always paralleled

The WP box car on the siding is interesting. Tony Thompson

Group, John King offered a much higher resolution scan for consideration. The load and gon are much clearer than in the scan I shared at first. The load is headed west from Baltimore in 1952 about 14

Hi List Members, A while back, months back, we were discussing cotton bales. Here is a good image of one... https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM48792 Claus Schlund

Hello folks- I have 10 new Great Northern HO box car kits, all 40'cars, and all GN. Mint, new from the Duane Buck collection. they are as follows- 1) IM #41001-26 GN 12 panel as-delivered mineral red