A railroad wheel is solid, but with a slight slope so that the outside of the wheel is smaller in circumference than the inside by the flange. A tight corner like this pulls the wheel to the outside

I've seen that in other places. It was probably more common in this era just because there were more industry tracks with very sharp curves. It stands to reason that the back of the wheel flange

Claus Schlund wrote: This sharp curve into the oil dealer facility looks like something model railroaders would do <grin> -- though most would omit the guard rail. Tony Thompson tony@...

Hi List Members, Sometimes when I am looking at images of steam era freight cars on sharp curves, I will see that the inside running rail of the curve will be accompanied by an addition guard rail.

Speculation: some kind of circus car? Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Hi List Members, Can anyone say what the freight car on the LEFT side of this image is? It appears to carry the reporting marks ARC 5

Very nice car Bob. I have always like these cars and figured if I wanted to build one I would use a Branchline 8' door car and sand off the rivets and replace them with weld seams. Probably would

I picked up a few of the recent Intermountain 1937 and 1942 40' boxcar recently to round out the fleet. I had built quite a few of the early ones, and I recalled the change in the underframe of the

Hi List Members, Many months back, perhaps a year back, we were discussing cotton bales. A nice image of one can be seen at the link below...

The CN 1 ½ door box car like I make with the Accu-rail cars and my own NERS ½ door Add-On kits isn’t bad either. Excuse the shameless plug. Wish I could enlarge and print that photo. Neat style

Duke’s advertising collection is quite good. My town of residence is pretty well covered, though unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of close-up freight car photos like this one. Regardless, they

Very nice-looking model, Bob, and quite an advance on what Front Range originally provided! Tony Thompson tony@...

Very nicely Done Bob Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Hi Bob, I really appreciate all the photo links you are sharing from the 20’s. I will copy the billboard image from this link. Also will investigate Duke’s billboard site more. Gary

 My typo error, I meant 15397! Sorry! CLaus Schlund

 Hi Bob and List Members, Upon inspection of the end reporting marks, I think this car number is actually 13397, not 15337 Thanks for the great images Bob! Claus Schlund

Bob Chaparro wrote: KDKA still exists (or did until quite recently), and was "grandfathered" in the general pattern of Western station call letters beginning with "K" and Eastern ones with

Another view: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM83985 Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Nice car, Bob! Elden Gatwood

Circa 1990, Front Range offered styrene kits for variations of postwar AAR boxcars with R-3-4 improved dreadnaught ends and diagonal panel roofs, a cache of which I unburied in my pandemic project to