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

The "container devices" mentioned in the previous post also seem to have remnants of guides for lowering covers on top of them. Ed Edward Sutorik

 Hi Bob and List Members, You may be able to see the entire image at full resolution (without having to click on the image, without holding temporarily, without having to walk and/or chew gum at

I am looking for an Intermountain SP stock car. Please contact me off-list if you have one to sell me or know of a hobby shop that does. richtownsend <at> netscape <dot> net Richard Townsend Lincoln

 Hi Bob and List Members, Looks like there is another shot of this scene from a different angle at the link below...

Intermountain did a Santa Fe stock car and Red Caboose did a SP car. Do you mean the RC car? Brian J. Carlson

Yes, the Red Caboose SP car now under the IM umbrella. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

I can wing it, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of drawings for how to run a wrapped steam line under express box cars, specifically an SP 5000-5049 series BX-50-24. I'd settle for drawings for a

Good Friends, Last month we were talking about coal trestles, and I mentioned a surviving one at the Montpelier estate near Orange, Virginia. This actually belong to the estate,

Ken Roth wrote: Can't help with the steam line location, Ken, but the SP BX-50-24 cars were 5700-5749. Tony Thompson tony@...

The BE-50-24 steam line is not visible from the side in any photos that I have seen so I assume that it must be threaded through the cross bearers alongside the center sill.

Another example of automobile loading. Note placard "UNLOAD FROM THIS SIDE" https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A154147/datastream/IMAGE/view Bob Witt

Nothing definitive regarding the SP cars, but in the August 2001 Mainline Modeler there's a Nick Muff article on KCS baggage and express box cars 400-403 with drawings beginning on page 41. As seems

Four photos of workmen harvesting ice from a ,lake. https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A147968/datastream/IMAGE/view Caption: Four pictures of men

Yup, Tony. Was trying to go from memory and forgot the 7!! It's tough being old .... thanks for correcting me. We SP nuts don't want do propagate misinformation. BTW the reason I'm particularly

Packard -- ask the man who owns one. What a shame ti kise this company. Chris -- J Chris Rooney CFAVanness CompanyEmail: Vannessco@...Web: www.VannessCompany.com

I compiled some info from Pennsylvania Tank Line's ORER entries the last time this topic came up: Pennsylvania Tank Line first appears in the February 1912 ORER with a picture of PTX