The B-26 and later B-29 assembly plant was the Martin factory on what is now Offutt AFB(previously Fort Crook) south of Bellevue NE. The building was later made part of the base and called "Building

Photo: Barrels in A Boxcar An undated photo from the Los Angeles City Public Library: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/photos/id/100971/rec/1247 Caption: "Barrels of liquor are

Good Morning Fellow Shut-ins... I am working on an overall history of the 21,000 class M-8 box cars built for the B&O, B&OSW, and P&W. The majority were built by Pullman as documented by Eric

If anyone is interested, Q Connection has the remaining RP CYC 12's in stock for $12.95 plus shipping. See www.QConnection.biz and click on Books & Pubs. Dave Lotz

Bob, We might want to chat off list about C.I.L. 1471 that appears in the photo. mswitzer@.... Mont Montford L. Switzer President Switzer Tank Lines, Inc. Fall Creek Leasing,

Claus, Many thanks for the info and the off list scans. Bud Rindfleisch

Not to high jack this thread but the NYC had a very similar car to this one for B-29 production as well. If you have Amazon Prime Video search "B29 Bomber Films" and a short movie will pop up with

As far as I Know it is still there. I will check the next time I go to Scottsbluff. There are also 2 in the eastern part of the state. Ravenna, maybe but I can't remember for sure. Harry Marshall

bud: OOPS mrr should read 11/97 :-( mel

bud: only drawng listed was in 2/91 rmc, mm had a couple of articles in 11/86 & 5/02, and rmc also had an article in 11/03, rmj in 8/03, and mrr 11/87 & 12/87

Hi Larry, Bud, and List Members, How about having a look at “The Mather Boxcar Draft Horse of American Boxcars” in RMC Feb 1991 pg 85 by Martin Lofton. Has photos and drawings. Claus Schlund

In the fwiw column, the Pullman library has haskell and barker drawings for Mather stock, auto, refrigerator, vegetable, and beef cars. I didn't see one for straight box, but it may well be there.

There was an article in RMC showing the "tall" 10' IH car-sorry I don't have the date but I think it was in the late 80's or early 90's.MRG for 12-1987 had an article with a lot of pictures but no

If you read the caption of the photo posted, you will learn it was built from a Sunshine kit. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Maybe it is still there--20 years ago I was in Scotts Bluff NE. and adjacent to a small rail yard, a grain mill had an on-site storage structure which was a surviving CB&Q extended height box car

Hello, Anyone know of existing drawings for the Mather 40' single sheathed boxcars? Mainline Modeler perhaps? Thanks in advance, Bud Rindfleisch

The Burlington Bulletin on the extended roof XA-14D cars states that some served out they’re life without conversion to original height. I’m traveling, so I can’t access my source until next

The AHM roof does resemble a the flat-panel version of SRECO's steel roof. But the seam caps should extend to the edge of the roof. Jack Mullen

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 5:24 PM Mel Perry <clipper841@...> wrote: not to rain on anyoes parade, but consider what the chinese had to do, one they figured out what they were dealing with, quarentined a

not to rain on anyoes parade, but consider what the chinese had to do, one they figured out what they were dealing with, quarentined a city.of millions, quarentined half a province, daily mandatory