Photo: NYC&HRR Boxcar 52228(?) (Circa 1900) A photo from the Maine Memory Network: https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/5831 Click on the photo and scroll to enlarge it. Also two B&M boxcars. The

Hi List Members, Additional info, HMHX reporting marks apparently are used by "Tank Car Corporation of America". I've not been able to determine how many cars they owned, nor have I been able to

It looks like the brickwork joints on the left side were roughly and crudely repointed to repair water damage. If not properly cleaned, usually with Muriatic acid, a light coating from the mortar

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:21 PM, Charlie Duckworth wrote: I assume hoppers given their primary customers were coal mines but would obviously like to know more. Given the year and local, I would be

Charlie, Google books is your friend. https://books.google.com/books?id=YhUlAAAAMAAJ&hl=en This page is from the July 1904 ORER and shows 2 locomotives and 27 freight cars. Doug

From the July 1904 ORER 2 locomotives and 27 freight cars Just a 4 line listing, no details. This is a Mach 1904 update not listed in my 1903 ORER's Oct 1905 update 1 locomotive, 27 cars Howard Garner

Attached … if the magic works … is a bit from the December 1937 issue of the Katy’s employee magazine at the time the 47001-series stock cars were being built by the railroad. Cheers, Bill

Had no idea there was a real railroad called the Coal Belt. The only Coal Belt I knew of was Bill Henderson’s wonderful HO layout set in Camelback country. Marty

Tim, the MKT car resembles the I-GN stockcar built a couple years later. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Chris, I would agree, it is an M-53, the attached photo shows a rebuilt M-15 with a wagontop body (subclass k and l). The M-15k and l boxcars had a narrower underframe and solid end beam (left over

If anyone has a ORER from 1904 I’d like to know if any freight cars are listed for the Coal Belt Railway. I’m finishing up an article for the MISSouri Pacific Historical Society on the Coal Belt

BILL PARDIE wrote: There are photos of Associated drums in red with a white center stripe, and black with a red stripe. Probably other combos too. Most oil companies did this for different

 Hi List Members, With respect to diamond oriented placards on boxcars, the three types I have seen are DANGEROUS and ACID and INFLAMMABLE. Claus Schlund

Subsequent to last weeks discussion of the Grandt Line oil distributor kits I assembled and painted the tanks from my two kits.This led to many memories and a question. My first job out of college

Hi List Members, I believe this scene linked below shows us the track that the switch engine is standing on in the link I mentioned in my prior email... Besides the interesting industrial scene,

Are they decals, or raised pieces that can be applied to raise above the surface or off the edge of a top chord? How much $? Thanks! Elden Gatwood

What a great idea!! :-) Tim O'Connor On 4/6/2021 10:16 AM, gtws00 via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

This is one of the shortest I ever saw: PRR’s Mon Div Whitehall Branch early sixties. Reefers for Armour & Co use spur to right. Elden Gatwood

Brian; I can’t see enough to see what specific placard this might be, but I used to have a collection of hazardous material placards most of which were diamond-shaped (meant to be displayed like

Interesting. I always thought a three way switch was more compact than that ... -- Brian Stokes North Point Street in Proto:48