Photo: UTLX 95870 - For Extreme Tank Car Modeling A 1958 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc196209/?q=railroad Click on the photo to enlarge

Photo: FGEX 36330 At Rock Island Yard A circa 1945 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1116212/?q=railroad Click on the photo to enlarge it

Photo: Bailed Cotton On Flat Cars An undated photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1622358/ Click on the photo to enlarge it and use the Zoom

Photo: RI Boxcar 141137 - Hide Loading Only A 1959 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1587593/?q=railroad Click on the photo to enlarge it

Photo: UTLX 47072 Crowley Tar Products A 1959 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1123983/?q=railroad Click on the photo to enlarge it and use

Photo: V-1 Weapon On MP Flat Car 8171 A 1945 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc262590/?q=train Click on the photo to enlarge it and use the

Jack Wyatt asked: "I wonder what the body color was for the original Atlantic Coast Dispatch vent's?" Yellow, with red herald. Ben Hom

Me too Tom. I just turned 80, I'm in delicate health and don't leave home. Hindsight 2020 was perfect for me too, except for interruptions at home. Wish I could have put it on hold at certain

I wonder what the body color was for the original Atlantic Coast Dispatch vent's? I should know, but it hasn't stuck in my mind. Appreciate it! Jack Wyatt

Well said, Tom. Mont Switzer

Not Vulcan, rather some sort of Andrews patent truck. Vulcan trucks had the end of the sideframe encircle the journal box, which fit in the resulting slot, and retained by a horizontal bolt through a

Hoosier Valley RR Museum - Poultry Car Gallery Cheers, Andy L. Wisconsin

Bruce Smith wrote: "IIRC, the X30 was PRR's first end door car." Class X25A had end doors. http://prr.railfan.net/freight/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=LinesWestDiagrams_230.gif&fr=cl Ben Hom

In the product description the Trucks are ID'ed as 55-ton Vulcan. Bill Welch

Hmmm, on a sudden hunch, I checked my Cory Bonsall model of a Utah Coal Route GS gondola, and it has similar looking trucks under it. I don't know enough about D&RGW freight cars to know if they had

Hi Clark, It looks like a hybrid design between an Andrews (separate journal box castings) and a full cast steel sideframe truck. I have no idea who might have made it, but I think I have seen one or

Tony, I'll be the first to comment on that Seaboard car to confirm your accurate suspicion. I was pleasantly surprised to see it and simultaneously astounded because 28 years later I was walking those

thats not an american la france engine, at least not a full out version. ALF made bodies on commercial chassis which this looks to be. Possibly a Chevy or Ford?

RE: How unloaded? Having just read thru the Magor Car Corp book by Ed Kaminski [so now I must be an expert, never having seen a sugar cane car before) ;-)] – looks like side dump to me?

Looks more like they are unloading the car. The car is sitting next to lumber sheds, and the load appears to be bags which are to big to be cement or plaster. Nor does the bag sag in the middle,