Clark National who ?? This is the B-50-20 represented by the IMWX (later Red Caboose) 1937 AAR box car. Many cars by the late 1940's would have been

All- This discussion came up originally on the CB&Q@groups.io list because someone came across a photo of an 1899 20FT Burlington NM-1 Bobber body that has been preserved at the Pioneer Village,

Hi all, Bob's post with the UoK links prompts me to ask a general question about freight car distribution. This is not a criticism it is a request for enlightment. I have noticed that many of the

OK - I tried to send an 11 mb attachment that was readable, however our group resized it to 225kb and made it mostly unreadable. Jason or Garth, If you need the readable version email me at

I looked around a little bit more and found a a gondola that was used by LCL corp. It doesn't appear to the exact car you are looking for but it may provide some guidance. It's a big drawing but I got

Garth, We discussed this car and the entire very cool scene back in December 2018. https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/topic/28613237#160446 and originally in February

Hi, LCL Corp 1956 inventory shows that there were 216 containers were owned by Carbide & Carbon Chemical and were in assigned service to Union Carbide for Calcium Carbide serve. I have drawings of

While looking for something OTHER than Steam Era FreightCars - I grabbed the permalinks for a variety of such cars for an indexof sorts for my later perusal. Some entertaining and educational -though

Hello Garth and all, This is a very fun shot, I believe I have seen a low res. version of this before. Couldn't make much out on that one. Thanks for this post. The car looks like a UTL type V 10k car

Jason Kliewer wrote: If this car is anything like the SP version, there are good interior photos in my volume on SP flat cars, Vol. 3 of the series, _Southern Pacific Freight Cars_ that was

Hi Garth, thanks for the reply. As I mentioned in my post, I've been working from the ORER data and having a time trying to get it to look right - mostly the containers. None of the ORER data gives

Geez. I’m not even home from cocoa beach yet. Lol. Brian J. Carlson

Friends, I also exploring the U of KY site, and found this very interesting UTLX triple-dome tank car, apparently converted to, or built new as, a dry bulk car. The photo is dated 1934. I've seen

Clark Propst wrote: Clark, I will send you a photo off-list. When built, they would have had just initials inside the stripes, but by the 1950s would have been repainted, doubtless with the

At CCB (Great event had a wonderful time) I purchased a mini-kit from 'National Scale Car' for a SP box car, series 83420-83739. Kit basics are doors, lower tracks and decals. The only photo of a SP

While passed in 1913, the Ohio caboose act did not take effect until July 1919. You can read the full text

The Morristown & Erie used an ex-Lackawanna bobber until 1950. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Ed, With respect to the PRR, the NA, NB, NC and NE classes of bobber were all well less than 26’ in length. The ND class was exactly 26’ long. Several classes of bobbers were selected for

I had a great time on my first visit to Cocoa Beach! Thanks Mike and those who make it happen. We are officially live and taking pledges for our project. We have a lot of information on our site and

While not in your region of interest, the State of Ohio passed a caboose law in 1913 that affected every railroad operating in or through that state. It specified a caboose used in main line service