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Re: Jim Kinkaid's Freight Car Photos Collection

What a treasure trove -- just skimmed the C&O and that is a collection in itself and of such high quality. Thank you to all involved. Chris Rooney

By bigfourroad · #181216 ·

Re: USRA-style Gulf tank cars

Todd, there is a 44-mesage thread about "Gulf Tank Cars" from Nov. 2018, that includes quite a bit of discussion of what it takes to use a Tichy frame as a starting point for the Gulf cars built by

By Dave Parker · #181215 ·

Re: Jim Kinkaid's Freight Car Photos Collection

Their security certificate is probably out of date. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Almufti Hishman via groups.io" <almufti77@...> Reply-To:

By BRIAN PAUL EHNI · #181214 ·

USRA-style Gulf tank cars

The USRA drawings show four courses for the 10,000 gallon tanks, and three courses for the 8,000 gallon cars, with 5-course radial tanks as alternate constructions for both sizes. David Thompson

By David · #181213 ·

Re: USRA-style Gulf tank cars

4 coarse shells for 10,000 capacity tanks, but these are 8,000 cap'y. Drawings are in Train Shed Cyclopedia No. 9. Brian Leppert Carson City, NV

By brianleppert@att.net · #181212 ·

Re: Jim Kinkaid's Freight Car Photos Collection

I'm getting a warning from my Firefox browser about a security risk on this website. MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT Now I do not suspect any real danger on this site, and I would not have a clue

By Almufti Hishman · #181211 ·

Re: Jim Kinkaid's Freight Car Photos Collection

Jim Betz wrote: True in most eras, Jim. Tony Thompson tony@...

By Tony Thompson · #181210 ·

Re: Photo: SP Yard

Mont Switzer wrote: As I said to Schuyler: . . . because my layout has no reversing loops or wyes, cars are always visible from one side only. There are just separate waybills for each side, so

By Tony Thompson · #181209 ·

Re: USRA-style Gulf tank cars

OK, I'll play dummy here. What makes these tank cars USRA tank cars? They have underframes like the Gould/Tichy model, but the tank shells are 3 course rather than 4 course. I thought the 4 course

By Todd Sullivan · #181208 ·

Re: Jim Kinkaid's Freight Car Photos Collection

Hi all, I just spent a couple of hours going thru a lot of the images in this collection (and even saving a few). As I was browsing the images one thing I noticed was that a very high percentage of

By Jim Betz · #181207 ·

USRA-style Gulf tank cars

As repainted by Greenville in

By David · #181206 ·

NC&StL XM31 photo

A nice complement to the article in PRM Vol. 5: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-N-Q/i-3DTdsTD/A David Thompson

By David · #181205 ·

Jim Kinkaid's Freight Car Photos Collection

Nice view of the straight-sill version of the Pressed Steel hopper: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-N-Q/i-Sv2m93j/A David Thompson

By David · #181204 ·

Jim Kinkaid's Freight Car Photos Collection

There are some nice photos in there, including this rather fascinating Gl hopper rebuild: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-T/i-8XP6Ksn/A David Thompson

By David · #181203 ·

Re: Photo: SP Yard

I notify the yard clerk that a car is missing from my train and there’s an extra car without a waybill that I left on track 5. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

By Eric Hansmann · #181202 ·

Re: Photo: SP Yard

Tony, How do you handle the car cards on that one? Mont

By Mont Switzer · #181201 ·

Re: Photo: SP Yard

An SP employee who worked at Gemco (yard near GM Van Nuys) mentioned that freight cars for the plant would occasionally come in with an "unload this side" placard that needed to match the loading dock

By Robert Bowdidge · #181200 ·

Re: Jim Kinkaid's Freight Car Photos Collection

I've just taken a quick plunge into the "C" section, and it is indeed a great collection! Yes, many are post-STMFC. There seem to be a lot of Greenville photos I've not seen elsewhere. My thanks to

By Jack Mullen · #181199 ·

Re: Photo: SP Yard

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Richard Hendrickson did a bunch of cars that way (and omitted end reporting marks). Of course, he didn't have an operating layout, and the one he had been working on, was

By Tony Thompson · #181198 ·

Re: Photo: SP Yard

Reeeely?? Who would do such a thing? Think of the headaches for the billing folks! Schuyler

By Schuyler Larrabee · #181197 ·

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