Although, since the first consignee had to call the local agent to apply new car seals, the railroad did have some leverage... don't re-stack or block the load, and we won't seal the car, leaving

Hello Everyone, Gondola's are the forgotten railroad cars. Very little had been written about them and there are so many variations. I want to ID a mill type gon. Its inside length is 47' 6" and

Bruce, I thought that was odd too; to suggest the first consignee would re-position the load. What I have seen in other sources were bulkheads made from dunnage to separate the parts of the loads and

Yeah, my immediate response was to laugh. The ERIE wanted the CONSIGNEE to shift the remaining load in the car at their own time and expense, so ERIE wouldn’t get freight claims? As a consignee, my

Perhaps the best comment is that it's applied common sense! A lot of people who loaded / unloaded freight in rail cars or tractor trailers in the past cared little about how it was done without

Erie RR Notice On Stop-Off Cars Any comments on this? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Staffan - Well, they are 30+ years old. Richard was even using a dot matrix printer for his labels. The attached photo shows the dimensions and a comparison to ends from an InterMountain 10' 6" IH

Hi Tom, Would you tell us how wide the West Rail casting is? Surprised to see the tack board seems to be cast in place. Staffan Ehnbom

Hello- I am offering for purchase 5 HO Intermountain RTR Northern Pacific black coal hoppers. IM #47152 47152-01 NP 70203; 47152-02 NP 70222; 47152-03 NP 70259; 47152-04 NP 70304; 47152-06 NP

I have examples of many of Richard's WestRail parts. Here's the 3-3-3 end. It's pretty nice. Tom Madden

Wanted Sunshine Kits: 37.9, 37.11 or 39.12 DL&W 4650 series DS 40’ Boxcar 37.10 LV 60000 series DS 40’ Boxcar 97.1,

There is also one located in Montrose, IA. I have been unable to find my pictures. From what I recall it’s in need of some paint and didn’t have a visible number. Lenny Ohrnell

All, In my collection I have a mold/master that Richard Hendrickson had made of a 3-3-3 end for West Rails. I will dig it out and see the spec's on it, but it will have to be after Cocoa Beach. Greg

But it would be so much easier to just tear open a plastic baggie! Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

I'll have to look and see if I can find one of those cars to take a look at the ends. Train Miniature did some 3/3/3 ends but they are way short. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

It's a Miner "Ideal" lever hand brake. A co-worker of mine at BB&N Technologies (Cambridge, MA) was a descendent of the Miner family. We used to talk trains

ALL box cars built after WW II ended had steel running boards. The first PS-1 box cars were built after 1945. -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

there must be two of these cars in museums, i remember another photo, except that car had loading doors on the "A" end mel perry

Richard, I'm not sure they are up to even the lowest standards of today, but a 3/3/3 Dreadnaught was used on Tyco 50' plug door boxcars. Why I don't know. I cut some away for possible later use from

Brian, No, all were steel. The earliest PS-1 box cars built starting in 6-47 (LV 62000-62499) came with Apex Tri-lok running boards & brake steps. In addition to Apex that had widespread use on PS-1s,