Actually Richard if you take a trip to the Smithsonian you can see a silk purse that Dupont IIRC made from a sow's ear. I do not know if it was transported there in a STMFC freight car. Cordially,

Thanks Dennis! Good to know! Rob

Friends, To close the loop on this thread, I ended up just buying a second Kadee ACF 11k insulated tank car with the same number as the first for the same bargain price of $30. I assumed there was a

Per Ed Hawkins handout on the Kadee site. You are good. You could do 10 cars total :) https://www.kadee.com/STL2016RPM/11K-Gal._ICC-105A_ACF_Type%2027.pdf Brian J. Carlson

Hi Bruce--I think you will find everything you want to know on these

Not later than 1959... perhaps earlier -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Mainline Modeler - 11/1997 pp.26-29 Greg Martin makes improvements to the model to represent the AAR 50 ton flatcar C&O #80694; with HO scale drawings

Don, I'll be in DC next week and will check it out. Somewhere downstairs in my stash is an old Dynamodels HO scale sow with piglets. With an ear-ectomy I will have the proper material to work with.

Richard, This article I authored was a way to use up the couple Revell/CON COR in my Jewells in the Junk Box. Mainline Modeler - 11/1997 pp.26-29 Greg Martin makes improvements to the model to

To add to the list of terms, Southern Railway ordered hoppers with U.S. Gypsum 'poking platforms.' -- Mike Turner MP-Z35

mike turner wrote: All the ore cars on the Minnesota Iron Range once had these platforms, too. Workmen could poke the sticky ore and get it to fall through the bottom doors. Tony

This seller has various drawings (blueprints) for NYC stencils on eBay. Several have initial dates of 1904 with the last revision as 1940. New listing Old Vintage 1936 NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD

In this case, Southern used the poking platform as a brake step and as a step above the draft gear on the other end.

Hello folks, I'm trying to assist an old friend who is not computer literate but is a serious New Haven modeler. In the postwar period the New Haven had four Shoreline freights that left Boston

I agree with your thoughts that there were probably many FGEX and WFEX cars in those trains. Both reporting marks were freely mixed by Fruit Growers and both also still had truss rod cars in service

Gents, I found an interesting image of two US Army tugboats on 3 flatcars on the Wisconsin Maritime Museum's web archive. This is on the Ahnapee & Western Railway in Sturgeon Bay, WI in 1943. Hulls on

If this isn't allowed please remove Hello all, Decided to thin the heard over the Labor Day weekend I have several items for sale if anyone is interested... Please respond off list at

Looking for post WW2 photos of grain being moved in box cars. C&O Walbridge Yard (Toledo) was still classifying ever more grain in box cars in 1962. Thanks, Al Kresse

You might find some useful ideas in: "The great yellow fleet : a history of American railroad refrigerator cars" by John H White, San Marino, Calif. : Golden West Books, 1989. Don't have a copy at

Unfortunately, this book is flawed. The late Richard Hendrickson noted, “The first half of the book on the 19th and early 20th century development of refrigerator cars was, in fact, written entirely