Hi Johannes, Bruce is correct, but also there is not much photo evidence to support the statement in Ralph’s article in MM about repainting as early as 1956… Most if not all of the New Haven

If I recall correctly, there were special super-fast "silk trains" at one time. Now I'm curious to know more. Tom E.

As Ian and Tony have stated, most likely Chlorine which was required to be placarded as a poison gas. Your photo captures said placard so you can infer that the car was loaded when you shot it. John

Cars of this type usually were in chlorine service, each canister held 1 ton. Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@...

Richard Wilkens wrote: Cars like that, with those removable tanks, were normally chlorine cars, but other compressed gasses could certainly be shipped that way. The tanks, known as "one-ton

helium :-) mel perry

U.S. Army Tank Car USAX 16503 at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles on May 24, 1958. Wonder what nasty stuff was in those tanks? Richard Wilkens

Morrell Refrigerator Line MRX 5687 at Los Angeles in May 1958. Richard Wilkens

Another photo from my collection of GATX 33504 at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles on February 26, 1958. Richard Wilkens

Johannes, You have to be careful how you interpret statements 😉 "At least as early as July 1956" doesn't meant it can't be earlier. In this case, the BAR cars, which were built ion 1950 and 1953,

Hello Richard, many thanks. With your reply I did some googling and found this: https://brasstrains.com/classic/Product/Detail/033503/HO-CCI-NH-New-Haven-Insulated-Box-Car-45071 Apparently what

According to Ralph Harris's article "NH Boxcar Part II" in the May 1995 MM, some NH cars were repainted to BCR scheme with large block "NH" at least as early as July 1956. Richard Townsend Lincoln

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Byron Rose knew - The underframe that came with the Sunshine SP B-50-12A (USRA rebuild) had a bogus underframe too, which Byron meticulously altered so that the model was

HI Tim, The date is indicated as “1880/1949”. The image is obviously neither from 1880 nor 1949. I think the “1880/1949” indicates the span of dates covered by the “Angelus Studio

Probably an express reefer. Silk got very special handling and its movement was expedited. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

looks like they are loading multiple cars at the same time, is that a reefer they are loading? don't recognize the "boxcar" construction? mel perry

Group; Rather than responding individually, I am rebroadcasting the following info for files: PRR painting instructions of Jan 1953, since that is around when many of you model. Hutchins

The photo date is certainly wrong - SP 53745 is a G-50-6 gondola built by Haskell & Barker in 1916. So not 1880's. The flat car is SP 41683. -- Tim

Photo: Loading Raw Silk A 1930 photo from the University of Southern California Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/11274 This photo can be enlarged