Bill, Ted Culotta has an article in the November 2003 Railroad Model Craftsman about these cars. As others have said CN had both steel and wood doors that got swapped around over the years, so you

In response to Bill Welch's question Jim Brewer's wrote: "In Ted Culotta''s Steam Era Freight Cars Seminar Manual he has a photo of CN 503559, built in 1929 and it does have wood doors. There is also

Not a typical arch bar truck. On a B&O N-8 hopper, photo from the Columbus OH. Library. Dave Nelson

Bob Chaparro wrote: This builder photo is in my Volume 3 of the series, _Southern Pacific Freight Cars_ for anyone who may have the book. Tony Thompson tony@...

Photo: DT&I Boxcar 8425 (Built 1893) A photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/4630/rec/22 This is a very clear

Photo: Pacific Electric Flat Car 3643 (F-50-8) A 1923 photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/2444/rec/599 This

"Some produce didn’t need icing-just air flow. Potatoes, and I believe onions among the produce were so shipped." This comment is misleading. Every type of produce had a preferred shipping

Some background on FMC: The California Fruit Growers Exchange encouraged the Food Machinery Corporation to enter the field of citrus machinery. FMC started as a national consolidation of various

There was an article on these cars along with drawings in Mainline Modeler.

I think that's an Enterprise door mechanism - like the one in the Tichy USRA kit. On 5/20/2020 4:48 PM, Nathan Obermeyer via groups.io wrote: -- Tim

Bill, I am currently working on two of these cars which Marc Simpson recently had re-run by Sylvan. The prototype notes included with the instructions suggest the boxcars with wood doors were built

The Accurail 40' double door box car started out as a McKean effort to model the GN 3000-3499 series built 1955 having a recessed diagonal panel roof, a 7 and an 8 foot door and a fish belly side

Bill, I believe these cars are the subject of Ted's EFC #8. Best regards. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA

Nate, Attached is a photo I quickly took of an Atlas 70-ton 9 panel 3-bay hopper that I stripped for another project. I took some measurements of the car so you can compare them to the diagram sheet.

Over the years three models have been done of the CN's 7-panel Howe Truss Boxcars—F&C ()originally Steam Shack I think), Sylvan, and Kaslo Shops. I am interested in trying to understand built dates

Bill S. wrote: "Some produce didn’t need icing-just air flow. Potatoes, and I believe onions among the produce were so shipped. Were some (uninsulated) cars used for the brief(heavy) potato

Thanks Dave

Fenton That’s very nice and a large hopper for 1951. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Bruce: They are planked, have Barber Lateral Motion, and the end of the truck bolster is a dead ringer for the Tahoe x09. Sideframe is a little different, but it looks like a decent match to my

Jim, This is exactly what I needed. Thanks for taking the trouble to scan it for me! Regards, -Jeff