Stephen: No one has asked to see the “missing” 14 pages but I can do that off-list if folks are interested? Ike

To cite an example of a retouched photo. Attached is a photo scanned from a company brochure published by the Decker & Sons Meat Company, circa 1930. The photo shows the loading area, but what stands

The picture is awfully small. The car may have been temporarily lettered with whitewash, previous to its final lettering (with data). The shadow of the latch bar, and other "flaws" could have been

Photoshop may be too harsh a term. I suspect it is what I call an “advertising print”. Somewhere in my collection I have a photo of a string of Boston & Maine boxcars lettered “B&M Baked Beans

Also note the COMPLETE lack of other lettering: - Reporting marks - Weights - Dimensions - Etc. “As is”, would it even be acceptable for interchange service?

No dimensional data, no reporting marks, no other required lettering for interchange service. Very likely a photo or negative that had lettering applied. Was a common technique for advertising

I vote for a retouched photo. While the web image resolution isn't very high, we should be able to see the shadow of the door locking bar where it crosses the M, and I sure don't. Dennis Storzek

Hi List Members, I've been looking over this image entitled "Oscar Mayer Freight Car" taken in 1931 https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM1788 The billboard lettering is very cool.

Bill, According to Richard Hendrickson's article in the April 1997 RMJ, the Tichy underframe is not 100% correct for converting the Red Caboose R-30-11/12 cars to R-30-13s. It is a somewhat beefier

Hopefully not to oversimplify but rather to establish a practical means of accurately modeling the PFE wood refer fleetcan we establish that : 1) The Tichey underframe is correct for the WP.

I looked around, didn't seem to find anything... We're trying to date a wreck image using freight cars in the pictures. One (a WUF NYC&StL box) still shows "NEW 5/1907" By the CAPY/WT info (ORER info

No, no documentation. I inferred from the dates that about 200 of the WP cars differed from all the others and had Bettendorf, but I have no proof. Tony Thompson tony@...

Single rivet courses. "Elk And El Toro Lard" Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Dick, Contact me at mallardlodge1000_AT_gmail.com . I might be able to help with a diagram, but I want to discuss this off-list. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

I should have added that since the WP reefers have a unique version of the Built-Up underframe for reefers, with their brake cylinder and brake levers placement, I think it is even more likely that

AFAIK, the current thinking is that all the WP reefers had Built-Up underframes. I do not know of, and have not heard even rumors of, any photo of a WP reefer with a Bettendorf underframe. My

Tony, to that end, I've been meaning to ask. For the WP reefers, is there an AFE list or something that reflects which of the 2000 AC&F cars got Bettendorf and which got Built-up? The NPRHS has such a

Very interesting document. Thank you for posting. J. Stephen Sandifer

Richard, Sinclair did operate a few twins and triples, but photos are rare. The late Richard Hendrickson sent me a photocopy of his article on Sinclair tank cars from UNION PACIFIC MODELER (pages

http://mopac.org/archives/freight-operations/47-mopac-lcl-kansas-study-from-april-1960 -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.