Hi Clark, Wow! That Excel workbook is a labor of love. It also raises lots of questions about where cars came from and where the loads out were going. E.g., where did all that sugar in NP boxcars

Fantastic job Clark. Lots of great information for the grocery business. Interesting that they only got nine loads of meat during this time period. And even more interesting three of those meat loads

Light bulbs were another 'back fill' commodity for reefers and, western reefers that got close to Maine might ship seed potatoes west, but, they really were a reefer item were they not. By the way

That's really weird, Tony - I never knew that! Evidently Pullman finally caved (at least by 1959) and allowed gussets to be applied to welded cars too! :-D --

Great model. It raised a question in my mind. Did railroads offer shorter cars, of all types, to customers to help out smaller operations and keep them away from trucks? Or was it a matter of the

Tim O'Connor wrote: SP piggybacked onto a C&O order for riveted 50-foot double-door box cars with PS-1 ends and underframes. Each road got 200 cars. The cars were built to C&O specs (Class B-34) and

I've pretty done all I can with the grocery warehouse cars. I've found plenty of mistakes. I'm sure there was more. Please take a look at your favorite road and let me know if changes are needed?

Dennis - were the cars built with PS-style welded underframes or AAR underframes? The PS underframe had features not found on the AAR design. I know that some welded

I have a nit to pick... since the defining feature of a PS-1 boxcar is its welded construction, can there be a riveted PS-1? Or, is it simply an AAR boxcar with Pullman-Standard proprietary ends and

Eldon, Mont might be in his basement working on sweet freightcar models instead of looking at his computer, so I will send along a Monon coke car photo. The car in the photo was rebuilt from a

You can add ceramic tile to that list, which was typically shipped boxed to prevent damage, and the boxes were small enough (it's heavy!) to easily hand truck out through the narrow door. There was a

Thanks, but as mentioned not my best effort. I could have done better at cutting and fitting the MDC Roundhouse ballast chutes. The inside shows more faults. Figure some ballast will solve some of

Jim Dick wrote: I think it's vital to remember that major refrigerator car owners like PFE, ART, and FGE had their primary obligation to shippers of fresh produce. To the extent that any backhaul

John Huh, what? Are you joking? I have no authority here. Only Jeff & Mike can do that. Those PS-1 ends were used on everyone's riveted PS-1 box cars. :-D

Really neat car, and so well done. Thanks for the ;ook. Bill Bill McClure www.billmcclure.smugmug.com www.mcclureimages.com

Other than bicycles, I have paperwork showing cigarettes, matches, tires, (yes tires) magazines and books were a big back-haul commodity as they were clean and headed from publishing houses in the

Staying with the wrecking equipment, does anyone recognise the origin of the boom car 207313? The attached photo by Bernard Corbin shows the boom car with CB&Q's 75 ton Industrial wrecking derrick

Excellent, Bob, lof the end manufacturing jig. Well done and a good looking car. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Hi Ike, and All, In an earlier message I claimed that this photo came from my collection. Let me clarify that. I thought you got it from Ted’s Steam Freight Cars site, where I posted it about 15

Unique among L&N’s woodracks were the #20100-20199 “shorties” – 36-footers with inset bulkheads, rebuilt in 1943 from ventilated boxcars. The model was scratchbuilt from styrene, with the