"Auto train" is the correct analogy. They were not "freight cars" per se - not even listed in the ORER. If you wanted to stage a publicity photo, would you try to find a beat up

The Model Railroader article did not relate just how the CN used these cars. However, I always believed that they were used in much the way AutoTrain did. That is, passengers on their long haul

Question: Why a Canadian car? Were some cars built in Canada as early as 1957 or was there some sort of "car pool" in operation. Bob Witt

This might be the other photo in question. The Lackawanna boxcar is off to the right distance beside the locomotive. The brick storehouse is adjacent. I like the high walkway PTX tank

I don't know what photo you think is different, but it appears that all photos in this set are views of the same group of buildings, in back of the roundhouse. Identifiable buildings appear in

I disagree, I think iy is a four truss rod car, and we can only see the near side rods. The inner rods are quite close to the center sills, as evidenced by the placement of their terminating nuts on

B&O O-41 No. 350370 is restored at the West Virginia Railroad Museum at Elkins. Work was completed about 9.5 years ago. Regards----Mike Schleigh at Grove City, Penna.

Do you happen to know which railroad museum in WVA it is? Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

O-41 gondolas B&O series 350000-350999 were built in the period 1931 to 1935. I do not know the builder(s) but that is surely available from the usual sources. One car exists, restored, in a museum

If I were at home, I could look at my December, 1935, ORER and tell you which of the DL&W truss-rod shorties survived the 1934 purge of WUF cars. For example, none of the B&M cars survived, but some

Any ideas of who built the 3202? The series 3200-3206 cars had 12 ribs, and 50-6 interior length. Tim O'Connor -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

The 5009 later received full lettering, wiping out the B&M's lettering. -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

From a second look I think you are right about only two truss rods on the DL&W boxcar, Eric. Your version of the photo shows the underbody details a bit better and tells me that part of what I Thought

The dock to the RIGHT in the photo is clearly a ramp going off to the right - you can see the horizontal floor lines do not line up. The area in front of the car is slightly sloped rather

1971 photo but still in original paint -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 07:15 AM, Eric Hansmann wrote: ...the negative is markedthe negative is marked "Site of inspection shed DL&W electrification at Hoboken." Actually, there is at least one other

Almost looks like a shed that was converted to a dock. Interesting details on car end and trucks too. Mark Kraus

DL&W 31830 is among the 31000-33999 series listed in the October 1926 ORER. These were 30-ton capacity cars with 1,806 cars in service. In the historic Lackawanna photo, we can see two truss rods

Modest clarification to item below----WAG 200-202 first appeared in the July 1956 ORER. Mike Schleigh, still in Grove City, Penna.

Thank you Dan! For the photo of WAG 5009 at Galeton in 1960 with the partial of WAG 200. (I own the original slide but prints from it were commercially sold in past years.) WAG 202 was one of the