Wabash #8188 is a member of the 300-car DD boxcars series #8000-8299 of 1950. The carbodies featured 12-foot door openings, R-3-4 early improved dreadnaught ends, riveted panels, and a diagonal panel

Photo: PRR Gondola 296954 With Export Log Load (Circa 1930s) A photo from the Artstor website: https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7729601_7729601_641419;prevRouteTS=1597971625034 Scroll on the

Photo: Railroad Yards In West Bottoms (Undated) A fair quality photo from the Kansas City Public Library: https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%3A104507/datastream/OBJ/view Click on the

On Aug 21, 2020, at 08:16, Edward <edb8381@...> wrote: [...] > Anchors for a flatcar load would be more like those used on large naval vessels and ocean going ships since the late 19th

Not an area I am expert on, but have spent a fair amount of time looking at models of anchors. For ship building, I would think most anchors were made near the shipyard, moved aboard the ship and

The anchors you show are what's called a kedge anchor, with a top crossbar that can be permanent, or able to be folded down along the shank for easier storage. It is a late 18th century design, sill

Hi List Members, I was sorting thru a box of junk I didn't even know I had, and I found these small ship anchors - see attached image. In my chosen scale (N) these are about 9 feet in length as can

I deleted my cache and that did it. I never had this problem before. Railcar Photos is a great site and I find it extremely valuable. Steve Kay

Matt: At that time, T&G V-groove siding was either 3-1/4 or 2-5/8; the latter was actually 5-1/4 siding with a V-grove down the middle of the board. My sense is that the 3-1/4 was far more common. I

Thanks for the help Howard.

Found the American Straw Board in the April 1908 ORER No dimensions series 1-25 and 101-107 Listed under United Box Board and Paper Co. Same info updated Sept 1908 Same info updated July 1909 listed

RJ; You are correct. I uncovered dozens of photos of auto damage claims on the PRR during my searches, and the teens thru thirties were the worst. There was a lot of bad blocking & tie-downs,

Follow up: As of 12:30PM Eastern Time, the railcarphotos.com site appears to be to be back up and running normally. A search I performed worked correctly as well. Cheers, George Irwin

It is definitely a Kato. Black is correct. Brian J. Carlson

Schuyler, I stand corrected, I believe that is a KATO model. Details are not as fine a the IM cars----more opportunities for the prototype modeler. Mont Montford L.

A friend's dad used to work at an auto dealership in the early 1950's. He said they routinely did repairs on nicks and scratches, and sometimes major dents and damage at the dealership from cars that

Well, CURRENT IM models have different sill steps and a few other minor differences. https://www.intermountain-railway.com/ho/hohoppers.html and scroll down a LOT. I’ve seen that sort of

Here is a Google Drive link, courtesy of the Southern Railway Historical Assoc. archives, to three drawings, circa 1935 for Evans auto loaders. Southern drawing SF-40545 shows instructions for using

All, My father recently got the itch to reproduce a 1907 American Strawboard boxcar (as seen here and here) and has given me the job of researching decals. I used Photoshop Element’s perspective

For what it's worth, at 9:30AM Eastern Time on August 20, I tried to access railcarphotos.com and was met with a "500 Internal Server Error." These problems usually get straightened out relatively