Photo: Mystery Freight Cars (Circa 1900) Photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM9760 Description: “McCormick Reaper Works and wood shop

I agree with Ralph. Having lived in SE Pennsylvania for 63 of my 76 years, we get snow, it melts. Snow coverage is intermittent, which is hiw I read what Bruce said. It may have snowed a week before

Nelson I was just looking at the height difference in the cars, which is quite noticeable! I agree with you that if 17145 has R+3/4 ends then it's the Blueprint model

Most likely an ex Erie “Greenville” at 52’6”.

I recently needed a couple freight car parts to finish a kit build. I was lucky I kept parts from old kits. It's the subject of my latest DesignBuildOp blog post.

Dan Smith

Schuyler, Bruce, et al., I knew exactly what Bruce meant, and I’d have said it the same way. I’ve lived in Portland, Maine, for about forty-five years, and don’t recall a Winter with

I think it’s that one car is sitting lower on its trucks.

To follow up on these photos, I posted to the MSTL list and Roger Ward responded: The 2 cars on top of ice deck were MSTL refrigerator. The old cars got changed out. Put 2 new cars up there. Retired 2

Here are two photos I have of 23000 series CGW boxcars. Very different P/L schemes. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

My mistake, I should have typed "GE Appliance Park" not GE Appliance Part. George Courtney

My memory isn't reliable, but it tells me RMC once had an article suggesting these cars were assigned to the GE Appliance Part Service in Louisville, Ky. Enough so, the car on my layout is in

What stands out in the picture is that the later (1950) car appears about 6 inches shorter than the earlier car. If the Branchline car is a 10’0” IH car that is probably the reason for the

Your sentence, as I quoted, implies that there is NO snow ALL winter. Not the case. Schuyler

Schuyler, ' You seem to have misinterpreted my comment. What it meant was that the ground in Philly is not continuously covered by snow, not that Philly doesn't ever have snow. Having spent a good

Ed, there are a LOT of potential photos on the Fallen Flags site. Could you give some data = car series, length, date built – that would help to find out what you are thinking about? Schuyler

Tim, the CB&Q XM-32B class cars in series 17000-18399 were built in 1950. See Mainline modeler March 1996, page 71. I’m not familiar with the Branchlne car body, and Clark didn’t post an end view,

Bruce Smith writes: Philly does not have snow on the ground all winter Oh yes it does. Maybe not ALL winter but I have a photo taken by Larry DeYoung of a SD45 flying through the Devon PA

No. Americans don't write dates that way. It is month, day, year. So February it is. Not to mention it is obviously COLD, due to the ice on several cars. I will also note, as others have done, that

While ridding my duplicate & corrupted backup files on new to me Lenovo 17" Ideapad, I came across the 1913 Car Builders. Wandered thru the pages & came across a CGW wood superstructure box with a