Take a look here Boxcars - City of Vancouver Archives Steve Hile

Steve - can you say where to find that collection? Rob

Correction: Photos of CMO cars show 1682 & 1808 rebuilt in 1941 had Superior doors and 8-panel sides. Cars 1672 & 1720 had Youngstown doors and the unusual version 10-panel sides with the half-panels

No Joke! This is the result of a combination of fat fingers on a phone and questionable spell check. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy

FWIW, there is a photo of CMO 1720 in the Vancouver collection of Bill Lane photos. It has a seven panel Superior door with the placard board on the second batten down from the top. The view is

Dan & Eric, Sorry for being late to this discussion. Today I contacted Jeff Koeller, who I consider an extremely thorough source on steam-era CNW/CMO freight cars. Jeff provided the following

The D on the end of the word GONE is a joke, right? Jim Hunter d

A photo by Charles Lange of the SP roll-away ramp at Guadalupe. Bob Chaparro Moderator Railway Bull Shippers Group https://groups.io/g/RailwayBullShippersGroup

A Cliff Prather photo of the roll-away cattle ramp plus one from the Library of Congress. Southern Pacific has on at Guadalupe which appears on Brian Moore's excellent SP layout in, of all places,

This is a link to a Kevin Cavanaugh photo taken at Esperanza in Yorba Linda, CA, about 1975. This is on Santa Fe’s Third District (Los Angeles Division) in Santa Ana

A beautiful model in its day... and in the present. Nicely done, nicely weathered, and a nice tribute to Taurus and other earlier entrepreneurs. -- Michael Gross Pasadena, CA

Sorry for the double posting, my question overlaps both groups’ time frame. The SRHA archives contain quite a few drawings and documentation on car modifications (both box and flat). While

Dan, I have searched for an authoritative source for the brake step and running board and have come up empty. One thing is clear from photos available to me is that both are steel. Those dates (and

The email concerning wood kits was directed to the Amarillo Rail Museum. The kits are not cataloged so it's not a pick and choose. I will entertain requests from.others. Bill Sent from my Verizon,

Hi Jerry: I have quite a few wood kits lying around. These will never be built. I have been sending some to friends on the mainland for their use or to give away at club meets. I am trying to clear

Eric, thanks much for the info. I'm amazed by the availability of disposition of individual wrecked car numbers. Please share with us the source of that info. Thank you. And thanks to Tim for the

Thanks Bill! Nice remembrance from the 1980s. Anyone have these kits lying around they'd like to part with for a fair price to our museum? Jerry Michels Amarillo Railroad Museum

I think that the significance of the Prototype Modeler PFE and RI reefer kits is that they placed the car in CONTEXT -i.e. that the PFE R-30-13 was the typical PFE reefer of the 1920-30 period.There

Santa Fe system standard plans had a platform between the chute and the car, but many stock pens were not built to Santa Fe standards and many were built before the Standards were developed. This

Bill, you’re full of oldies and goodies. The wood treatment screams hot and dry. Nelson Moyer