We’ve recently been advised that more roads than just the Lehigh Valley owned “wrong way” box cars. This is a snip from a larger photo titled “Buffalo NY 1910 Kellog Company.” I am not

Back in the day "cordwood" was sold at various outlets or could be delivered to your home for heating purposes. pulp wood was left whole(not split like seen in the photo). Cheers & Beers, Bill

Very helpful photo with the wood roof. I am doing a Board x Board Roof Pattern to fit the Tichy reefer kit. Bill Welch

Interesting find Bob. Although the test facility was at FGE, I am pretty certain they did not use A Fruit Growers car. In the years after WWII feeling the pressure from trucks equipped with

Bob Chaparro wrote: PFE reefers with wood roofs did not have ice hatch platforms, as you see here. Platforms were for outside metal roofs. Tony Thompson tony@...

Hi Garth, Some, perhaps most, automobiles were shipped as “kits” circa 1905. Nice shot of the truck. Too bad we can’t see more of the boxcars. Pax, Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS

I like all the cars 1st car – cut (dimensional?) wood on bulkhead flat 2nd/3rd cars – random pieces parts 4th car – most of it looks like the parts that are cut off the outside of the log

mel perry wrote: In later years, yes. In the 1950s, no. Tony Thompson tony@...

But correct 'Chingish' would be, "Model million pulpwood load begins first stick." No 'a' or 'the' in Mandarin, ditto prepositions. Todd Sullivan who learned Chinglish from my dear wife who is from

All else fails, place it directly behind the engine then the other cars will not be impacted. But if all cars are properly weighted to NMRA standards, I would not think that there would be a problem

Bob, (Here I go again!) I suspect this photo is somewhat mislabeled. The loads are may be shake wood on its way to a shingle mill. Nice photo though. Good find. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Bob, Unless those crates contain spare parts, or are part of a "kit", they are far too small for a whole car. In the early days before Evans racks, autos were sometimes shipped in crates (via freight

Friends, Edward has pretty much hit the silk problem on the head. Silk was a very, very valuable cargo, and was a tempting target for organized crime. Some division points along the silk routes had

Photo: Loading Packard Automobile Crates A 1905 photo from the Wayne State University Libraries: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:CFAIEB01e765 Click on "Open Image in Viewer". This

Dry Ice Refrigerator Car Test Here is some "dry" reading if you have the time and inclination: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924003645607&view=1up&seq=19 This is a 1952 technical

Hi List Members, Awesome photo! I especially like the gondola closest to the camera – it has a hole punched into the side, and the side plates are rusted thru near the bottom. While I cannot

An old Chinese proverb says, "The modeling of a million piece pulpwood load begins with a first stick." I read this in a fortune cookie message. The other side of the message had a one-step tip for

the one without is a different roof altogether mel perry

Photo: Reefers At Michigan Central Yard - Detroit A 1928 photo from the Wayne State University Libraries: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc77171_1 These photos load slowly but can be

Great shot, incredibly clear. But the mere thought of wanting to model that load gives me a very bad headache! Schuyler