Hi Garth and List Members, Thanks for the image of HBCX 162. The San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge can be seen in the background, giving us a quite exact location for this photo. An image of

I'm working on a Erie ARA 32 box car with Hutchins ends with no instructions. The only photo I have is of a 75000 series car with what appears to be 3 'innie' pressing per end panel. The kit has a

I was just going through some of my photos and came across two photos of interest. One is a photo of a Squire Dingee pickle car at the Dreher Pickle Company plant in Fort Collins, Colorado. It was

Ken: Thanks for the heads up on the photo showing original ends and the rectangular herald. Tim Gilbert maintained that that only cars with rebuilt ends received that herald, but he was looking at a

Bob and Friends, According to the late Richard Hendrickson, these cars were confined to the State Belt Railroad in San Francisco. They shuttled bags of beans from a dock to Hills Brothers' plant which

For the gory details: https://www.bmrrhs.org/gondola_90000_series/ From the “Car book” drawing it confirms the 1933 rebuild date. Note there is at least one photo with original

Thanks, Todd, very useful information! Schuyler

Maybe. Might have been a while since it was last on B&M rails, and even then . . . Schuyler

Schuyler, It could be post war but the paint looks reasonable fresh and if it is postwar the herald would be different. Don Burn

Dave, I’m looking at the construction methods and materials of that mind building, and I think it may well be into the late 40s. Post war, I ‘d say. Eric, thanks for the photoshop work, the

Hey, isn’t that B&M composite very close to the Walthers gon that was getting so much disrespect on this list a week or so ago? Certainly in the “close enough” category. Schuyler

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Thanks for that little nudge, Eric! Schuyler

Mel, thanks for posting those great photos!! I’m honored to be listed as a contributor to the project. And I am embarrassingly ENVIOUS of the model. It’s on my bucket list, but I fear it’s

Hey Schuyler, This isn't about a pickle car per se, but there was a Bloch & Guggenheim pickle works on the PRR Elmira Branch at Seneca Castle, NY. It was still there in the early 1990s when I was

The Erie Ore Car has been completed by Jim Kubajak . I added six pictures to the Photo Section. For all the replies and help, a big Thank You goes out to Tom Evans, Steve Hile, Schuyler Larrabee,

Thanks for sharing these photos, Jim! I've seen the Hyman Pickle car images before but did not realize they were builder photos. There are several images of Heinz pickle tank cars

I massaged the image in Photoshop by adjusting levels and sharpening a bit. See the attached. It's great to see several gondolas loaded and on the ready track at this coal mine.

Thank you very much for these excellent photos. I originated this “- further question” thread, and I’ve been hoping to see pickle cars that might have operated on lines in Upstate NY at all,

Apparently a 35 mm negative, from the perforations along the edge. Still, downloading a bigger scan is helpful. Lots of fun variety visible. I like the Q car with the slogan on the car side instead