Photo: Erie Low Side Hopper (Gondola?) With Damaged Floor An undated photo from the Columbus Metropolitan

Ken Adams wrote: "Accurail has announced this. As I am a sucker for double door 40 foot box cars and know little about what is accurate for eastern railroads, I am

Ken - My January 1952 ORER shows DL&W series 11300-11599 as 40'-7" IL double door boxcars with 12'-6" wide door openings, AAR mech designation XMR (auto racks installed). This is the same number

I, too, am disappointed to report that this car number is not listed in my April 1950 ORER. Accurail did pick a number in a non-existent series of cars. As you note, the car looks fairly modern and

Here you are. Jim

Accurail has announced this. As I am a sucker for double door 40 foot box cars and know little about what is accurate for eastern railroads, I am asking if this is too much a foobie or incorrect

Group, I purchased a kit without a data sheet or instructions. The Sunshine Models kit #2.1 is for a C&NW 65000 series, steel side rebuild USRA DS boxcar. Does anyone have this information who is

Fred, the attached entry from the 1955 Tank Car Capacities tariff clearly shows 215 cars in the WP listing. Ian CranstoneOsgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@... http://freightcars.nakina.net

Schuyler, They look like 1959 Cadillac's which would date the photo late 1958 or the first half of 1959. Mont Switzer

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 02:09 PM, WILLIAM PARDIE wrote: That was the first and last time that I took a model to an event.Do you mean because of the damage is transit? Or, because of the negative

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:48 AM, Bob Chapman wrote: The technique was developed by the late Greg Martin I thought so. I've used it too on PS1 cars just like in the article Greg did using a ATSF

I'm not sure what the notches in the sides of the converted gondola were for, but they were not for releasing the fifth pin from the car mounted hitch. The fifth pin would have been released by a man

Fred and friends, Interesting observation. This gives us a one-year window for when WP tank cars were reclassified to MW service. It would be interesting to figure out approximately when the change

Guys, WP purchased 210 tank cars in 1912 (60,10k cap)), 1913 (100, 10k cap)) and 1929 (50, 12,5k cap)). After WW II, most of these were used in bilge water, diesel fuel, water, sand and other company

It was to reach the trailer hitch disconnect. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

Interesting surgical modifications to the car sides there. Was that to clear the tires on the trailer? I wonder how much that derated the carrying capacity of the gon. Do you have a date on the

Rock Island did the same thing, only with Cadillacs and re-purposed WE gons. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Nelson Moyer <npmoyer@...> Reply-To:

That’s really a practical shipping method, because it only requires one loading and one unloading of the individual cars. Much less opportunity of damage. Too bad it’s beyond my era, because that

Tony is quite correct in noting that "overlooks" was probably a poor choice of words on my part... Railroads reported what they were required to report to the two tariffs, and in some cases chose to

Ian Cranstone wrote: Remember, the ORER didn't seek out anything. Each car owner sent in a report, as often as they thought necessary (some would remain unchanged, with original date, for multiple