Photos: Reading Gondolas A photo from the Hagley Digital Archives: https://digital.hagley.org/1986268_0225 Click on the photo to enlarge it. One car is 29035. A second photo of

Photo: PRR Gondolas A photo from the Hagley Digital Archives: https://digital.hagley.org/1986268_0288 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Phillip, You're a few decades too late. The pallet as we know it, along with the fork-lift, were invented in the 1920s. By 1925, the pallet included bottom

Photo: DuPont Tank Cars (1940) A photo from the Hagley Digital Archives: https://digital.hagley.org/1972341_0339 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. I wonder if a plastic model manufacture could

Photos: Boxcar Cleaning Equipment A photo from the Hagley Digital Archives: https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_22175 https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_22173 Click on the photos to enlarge them. Bob

I don't know about the Uniforms, but do the pallets or skids by the car date things. I thought pallets came with fork lift trucks and Iso containers after the second World War? Sent from my Huawei

An interesting array of box, reefer and early TOFC cars/trailers; even an increased height ATSF BX-11 or -12. https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/51040509441/

I never thought of sugar beet, but now you say it l agree they almost certainly are sugar beets. Sent from my Huawei phone

Elden Gatwood asked: "Hard question, I know: Anyone have any idea what car company was receiving these roofs? Model?" https://digital.hagley.org/1999228_0021 While rail enthusiast know Budd for its

My off the wall question for today was triggered by a discussion with a friend. Were there any 40' steam era reefers with welded rather than riveted sides? We could not think of any. Richard

Group; Hard question, I know: Anyone have any idea what car company was receiving these roofs? Model? Elden Gatwood

Claus, Group; I dug through my pics in depth, and could not locate this car, but I think it is not NKP (hence the airbrushed out lettering), but another road (like Erie or NYC maybe) that had the

Group; This photo was taken while PRR was in the midst of a big conversion of G31E from general service gons to dedicated “skid & cover” cars for coiled steel shipment. This is one of a

Hi Folks, Let us now return to the discussion of Steam-Era Freight Cars. Otherwise, you might find yourself in Moderate Jail (“MOD-er-8” not “MOD-er-ut”). Thanks,

How about LYE-ma, Ohio, home of the famous locomotive works, and LEE-ma, Peru. Dave Lawler

Group; Just to add to what Ben said, the X40 were part of the “lightweight” fad taking place at the time. The thinking was that reduction of dead weight in a car, particularly in service

Ron Merrick wrote: "Hope somebody will humor me, but I'm interested in the X40 cars despite the fact that I'll never build a model of one, one reason being that I doubt that one of them ever visited

Hope somebody will humor me, but I'm interested in the X40 cars despite the fact that I'll never build a model of one, one reason being that I doubt that one of them ever visited my obscure secondary

Folks, During WWII, the F37 was used to carry US Nave 40 mm bofors anti-aircraft gun mounts. I have yet to find a photo (or loading diagram) of this load on one of these well-flats, so if any of you

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