Various Steel Industry Loads An undated photo from the Ohio Memory website: https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p15005coll10/id/2993/rec/13 Description: "Ladles loaded on train cars for

There was some symbiotic relationship between Pennsylvania Tank Car Company and Standard Tank Car Company, with PTC being the older (1914 versus 1919). I had some discussions after publishing the

The ends of the flats are interesting. Don't think I have ever seen that before. Also for scenery the old track on the left of the photo is really a neat idea. -- Jon

Cool photo but it’s mid-late 60’s at the earliest with EL hoppers, gothic P&LE and boxcar with the removed roofwalk. The load restraints would be different in earlier times. Brian J. Carlson

Steve Hile wrote: Certainly during the 1920s STC was far bigger than PTC, and we know that zPTC bought tanks from STC to put on its own underframes. But the early high-walkway tanks we are

And when the driver think he safely on the other side He shouts back down the line to the man and he says I fooled you, I fooled you I got pig iron, I got pig iron I got all pig iron You just

Here is another tank that looks the same Railfan.net Erie Lackawanna E-Mail List Photo erielack-photo/erielack-09-21-19/X7708.jpg Howard Garner Railfan.net Erie Lackawanna E-Mail List Photo

The TKX bolsters sure look like Standard Tank designs. I wish one could see the YS&T bolsters a little more from the side: that "porthole" in the bolster is a Standard Tank spotting feature. Al Brown,

Thank you Al for the info. Did some more research online and found that a company called Rail Scale Models sells scribed wooden overlays. However they are advertised as fitting Accurail hoppers not

There are several htings that stand out to me in this photo. Since the tank car is the primary reason the photo has been posted let's take it first. Were the walkways for this car designed by Rube

Bruce Smith, what class is the Pennsy #532885 boxcar seen in this photo? Is the roof slope really as flat as it appears or is it just my view of it? Also forgot to note earlier folks, not the sign on

Don Valentine asked: "...what class is the Pennsy #532885 boxcar seen in this photo?" Class X23. Not likely to be mistaken for anything

Definitely a photo beyond our period given the steel I beams in the PC gon #598980. But not that the stacks of I beams have a vertical piece of scrap wood between each of them and along the sides, the

Photo: Wabash Mather Boxcar An image from the Detroit Public Library: https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A172723 Click on the image and hold to

Photo: Chicago & Grand Trunk Livestock Car An undated image from the Detroit Public Library of a link-a-pin-era

Photos: White Star Tank Cars Undated images from the Detroit Public Library: https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A168060 Click on the image and hold to

Photo: PRR Flat Car 426837 With Electrical Equipment Load An image taken in 1937 from the Detroit Public

Photo: CB&Q Boxcar 134010 An image taken in 1931 from the Detroit Public Library: https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A230469 Click on the image and

To expand a little on what Steve Hile said about YS&T 110 (and TKX 700): Standard Car (later Tank Car) Company commenced operations in April of 1916; it was the name change that dates to 1919.

I use Vallejo colors. Attached are the two colors I mix to achieve a grey for covered hoppers. I usually do two drops of white to one of grey with a little tweaking. Drew in Philly Modeling the