Out west we had a large regional gasoline retail brand called Signal Oil Co. which started out by buying and reselling Well Head Gas which was the liquid found around the well (as Tim mentions) which

Bob Chaparro wrote: Obviously not a very good "class portrait" but a fine modeler's view with a number of details well shown. I like the missing board. Maybe I will try modeling that. Tony

William Reed wrote: William is right, beat me to it. There are two boxes but they were used in sequence,, oldest one replaced with every repack. Tony Thompson tony@...

Offered, one only- I have a set of castings to do a WP Pullman built 1916 40' SS box car in HO resin. Buyer will get the complete set of castings, which includes the under frame with separate

Jeff I think at that time they produced "NATURAL GASOLINE" - this was the highly volatile stuff that came straight out of the ground. I'm guessing that insulated cars

These look really nice – as we’ve come to expect from Tangent. My one question – why would gasoline require an insulated car? Is the idea to prevent the vapor pressure from building up in

Photo: SP Livestock Car 74207 A Roy Platt photo from the Wicked City Chronicle: https://wickedcityjeromeaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/box-car.jpg Bob Chaparro Moderator Railway Bull Shippers

Andy, The square-corned 4+5 Dreadnaught ends arrived yesterday in excellent condition –thanks. I’ve recently read the 1937 AAR book – a bit of information overload – getting the info

Mel, The reefers are a whole different topic. Besides the PFE R-40-10, Fruit Growers, ART, WFEX and I am sure other private owner's had square cornered cars. As Andy noted, The WP cars were 9'6" IH.

And there were 3 who bought S-cornered "modified 1937" AAR box cars as well... the ancient Athearn blue box car. :-) -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Those C&I hoppers have been travelling for years. Here’s one in an Andover, MA, wreck, circa 1929. https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6682x954j Eric

hi: don't forget PFE'S R40-10 class :-)

Hello folks- 1936 to 1940 were the years that large numbers of square corner Drednaught end equipped '37 AAR box cars were built. As can be seen in the list below of these square corner end cars,

New release for Small Business Saturday: our next production of General American 8,000 Gallon Insulated 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. By the end of World War I, U.S. production of oil and

This car is obviously in a train of mixed freight. When I worked on the Big Four at Harrisburg Il. we had an ocean of NYC hoppers. There was one little L&N car that showed up between the same two

The car in the first photo looks like it has an "Athearn" platform around the dome. Charlie

Not sure if this was answered or not but it looks like repack dates for the journals. Don't know if the upper and lower box had separate significance or not. I can barely make out the wording on one

Hey everyone, I looked at photos of various PFE reefers from the mid 1930s and onward which contain these boxes with lettering in them. What information is put into these boxes and why do they change

Andrew, It adds more problems. The molded center sill and bolsters on the IMWX/Red Caboose underframe are much thinner (~ 0.050") than on the Intermountain cars. The lower 0.045" of the center sill

Bob, These tank cars are actually early covered hoppers for carrying dry bulk chemicals. Note the discharge gates along the side. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆