Except at the prices, a load of calcium carbide containers runs about $250 or so. A bit out of my price range. Some of the items do look much more practical.

I would like to see your list Larry King <lrkdbn@...>

On 1/14/2020 7:03 PM, Peter Hall wrote: http://steamerafreightcars.com/prototype/frtcars/protofrtcarsmain.html -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Steel mill modelers supply is producing these containers, they can be found on facebook or at http://steelmillmodelerssupply.com Elliot Courtney

Bob, this car is a great find and by clicking on the picture and moving the picture around, it appears that CNO&TP 1308, a ventilated boxcar is being repaired and between it and CNO&TP 1121,

The picture really expands nicely clicking on the picture a couple of times. With that done, there are good views of two L&N 36 foot boxcars and a very early covered hopper.

I believe the attached Patent this is the calcium carbide container in that Linde Flat Car. The Linde Car is not a LCL drop side gon, although I can't say what type it is. What's the date of the

1929 to 1941 photos show FEWER distant cars because fewer cars were circulating due to the depression. By the same token, home road cars were more common in those years. After the depression ended,

SP hardware options (doors, brakes, running boards) are listed in the Steam Era Freight Cars spreadsheet compiled by Ted Culotta and Ed Hawkins. Every steam era modeler should

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