The article is in Model Railroader November 1953 Page 66-70. Building an HO Chlorine Car by Eric Stevens. Al Smith Sonra CA

I remember in the 1940's 50's Model Railroader magazine ran a series of scratch building "Dollar Models". One of them was a chlorine tank car. Steve Shaffer

So how were the cars lettered before 1953? Jim Hunter

Those who have Ed Kaminski's book on AC&F tank cars can see an advertisement with a drawing for a "one-ton" liquified-gas container on page 8, including a cutaway of the attachment point. Tony

Here are some pictures of the Chlorine canister cars along with one of the MTS model. Note that in some you are seeing the top of the canister with the connection point and it some the domed

Here are some pictures of the Chlorine cars with the canisters including one of the MTS model. Allen Cain

Ron Merrick wrote: This is my understanding too. Cars always carried containers, loaded or empty. I would think an empty one would be out of service. Tony Thompson tony@...

Actually, there is a contradiction between the two lists in the report. The first list shows HERX 10916. The second list shows HCRX 10916. All the other HERX cars are numbered in the 2000’s. HCRX

Here's one. Shipper would have been Frontier Chemical, which at the time was a division of Vulcan Materials, now Oxy (Occidental Chemicals). This car is unmarked, but that's not necessarily

I have numerous photos of these cannister flat cars, and they are always loaded with their cannisters. The precise style of cannisters does vary - perhaps related to the

When I lived out East during the 1980's there was a small water treatment plant in Lansdale PA that still received these cars. I believe that the cars were returned with empty canisters aboard. I

Thanks for the input guys! I think this may be a long research project.... Elden Gatwood

The topic of the P&WV derailment got me to look up Sudan, PA. I didn't get as far as trying to track down the location of this siding because the first thing I saw on the Google map was Narrow Gauge

FIVE Hershey's chocolate box cars, wow! -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

If you are interested in NP Freight Cars the NPRHA has in it's collection the NP Equipment Ledgers. These were used to keep track of equipment numbers, this set starts in the 1920s and goes to the

Bruce; Well, well! I do need to get my eyes checked! I wonder what the story was on those cars.... This is a tremendously interesting train. Elden Gatwood

Elden, The docs you supplied said that they were “R” and “E” so that would mean empty reefers. The P&W web page on AAR Marks (https://www.pwrr.org/rrm/rrmh.html) says: *(NATX) GENERAL ELECTRIC

Bruce; I was under the impression those HERX cars were Hercules tank cars, no? I need to get my eyes checked.... Yes, fabulous what some of these wreck reports tell us about what was in a

Elden, What a great set of documents! I see that Hershey’s (HERX) lost 5 reefers in this wreck! Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you

Folks; Without my ORERs, I am lost. Could anyone identify any of the cars listed in this accident report? I noted that this train was tank car heavy, and that an unusual number of cars were