Hi Bruce, You don't drink beer till noon? What kind of brewmaster are you, anyway? (I like Bob's pictures too, and I too like that they're searchable. I don't understand what the objection

Another shot of those class LG gons http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/monon/mon3639awb.jpg Rich Christie

Oooh! - look at those Milwaukee Road (CMStP&P) double-deck stock cars with roof hatches no less. Explanation of the roof hatches? Anything put through them couldn't get down to the lower deck. Tom

 Hi List Members, I'll say that Bob does a seriously AWESOME job of separating the diamonds out from what would otherwise be a major haystack (mixed metaphor, yeah, I know...) He finds stuff I

Hi List Members, Those interested in stock cars and their associated stock yards may want to have a look at this site... https://alchetron.com/Union-Stock-Yards Good images of the stock yards,

Bill You are right, the builder photo is on page 173 of the 1953 Car Builder's Cyclopedia, in a Thrall advertisement. Some of these cars remained as built for a long

I think TAHOE x06 Buckeye ARA is the closest, except for the spring plank. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

These cars were built as gons by Thrall in 1952 and, except for the covers and wood sides replaced by steel, looked pretty much as you see it in the photo. IIRC, there is a builders photo in the '53

There are literally hundreds of thousands of freight car photos on Flickr - mostly poorly organized without good annotations to say what we're looking at - now THERE is a

Some of these rebuilt flat cars were classified as LO (!!) at some point and carried a load of 11 bulk material bins. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Pullman Standard 1892 cuft covered hopper built 1957 (lot 8056) series 14001-14075 -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

ERIE 7220 may be special for some reason - it seems to be in a number group with specialty flat cars. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Folks, I too value Bob's posts, although I delete the vast majority as they are not of interest (out of time frame, lately too early, or cars I'm not contemplating building) They usually contain

:-D:-D:-D -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Now I remember where I saw that diamond plate on the hatches. The prototype was MDT, and the model was the Sunshine 20.1. All I had to do was go look at the model in the other room. Ron Merrick

I thank Bob for his work, and hope he will continue. His intro is sufficient to have me evaluate what the photo is about, and to decide if I will check it out. We all do get a lot of email and have to

Hi, George - This group to a large extent is an information sharing group and that is what I am doing. I receive many, many private messages thanking me for the photo links. If the information is

I am building a batch of Funaro B&O N-12 hoppers. I know very little about trucks. Can someone recommend a high quality truck that matches the trucks on the car in the attached photo? Thanks, D. Scott

Actually, Ron, it’s vises. Tony Thom

If you want to remove the roof. I've had good luck by putting the model in the freezer for a couple of hours. Then any part pops off easily with a #17 Exacto blade. Jim