David, Unfortunately, that particular archive has no zoom function. I downloaded the photo, but the scan resolution was such that it really could not be enlarged. Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Notice the hogs in the pen with the hog shed. What is the white octagonal building? A phone booth? It’s up on cribbing and it looks like a tool boxes and other supplies around it. There are

Claus the “sand car” is probably for hauling/storing locomotive sand. Appears to be a homemade single bay covered hopper. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Sunshine did make a minikit for the 1920s NYC System offset-side hoppers. This one came up on Ebay a week

Hi List Members, ERIE boxcars in 1914, and a nice view of a loading pen with sheep at the link below http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/V0002/id/1951/rec/112 Also, a high

I would not normally have the time or inclination to go looking for these. Nor would it necessarily occur to me to go looking for them, either. It's true for me also that most of these photos are too

Hi List Members, An image showing ATSF steel 40ft boxcar and a (possibly IC) steel GS gondola. I note the PRR style position light signal in the picture.

Hi List Members, I stumbled upon some steam era work train equipment images of various types IC X4356 tender cistern on flat car

Thank You Bob , and others for posting these photos. Keep them coming as they generate conversation and data from other list members in the know. This is information I can use and would have a hard

Yeah, with their advertising all over them. I >know< where I bought things and I don’ like being an ad for them. Schuyler

I think the "why" is up to the viewer. But I do hope the photos will start dialogues by folks who know a lot more about the pictured subject than I do. And these photos are not as easy to find as you

A Google Earth search for “4233 Evergreen Lane Los Angeles, CA” took me to Evergreen Drive in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Hmmmm. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on

Thank you for your support. I have also received five private messages of support as of this morning. I find these photos while I am searching for content for my own groups. And rather than ignore

Those of us who were close to the REBOXX people are checking into this. The name is registered and has not been abandoned. I would not get excited that the line is resurrected, as much as I

There is a phone number and address for Reboxx on their website ( https://www.reboxx.com/ ), which is copyright 2020. I could find no owner for the phone number and two sources had no listing for the

To get back to the actual topic, does anyone know how to zoom or enlarge this photo? The car looks like a pre-tank-anchor German-American product, and a larger version would be nice. David Thompson

Andy Carlson wrote: "B&O #17000. A mostly steel box car." Eric Hansmann asked: "Would this early boxcar have steel or iron sheathing?" Iron. From the B&O Railroad Museum

Don't forget that brasstrains.com sells boxes with foam inserts! Bill Jolitz

In 1912 Western Union began a program of reconstructing their lines that lasted until the 1930s. This could be one of the first of the "line forces" that did the work. John C. La Rue, Jr. Bonita

Two more places you might have seen diamond plate hatches. ART used them. Photos in The Eagle from the MPHS, Winter 2003. See page 9. Also Intermoutain provided them as an option in ART reefers