Folks, The decals have found a home! Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, Al From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2022

Tim, The foobie part is that the boxcar basis should have been a 10'6" IH car. I modified some of the dimensions of the area around the door to compensate. The picture you included was the primary

Photos: Boxcar Being Lowered At Hoover Dam (Circa 1931-1935) Photos from the University of Nevada, Las

Well, it's only a 2.0 to 3.0 on the 10 point Foobie Scale. It could be worse! :-D And even fine scale models often have goofy wood grooves. Properly depicting wood

Accurail is still the source of foobie MW cars: SPMW was painted FCR prior to 1956. Don't look too closely as the sides are a somewhat botched attempt to remove the deep weathered grooving. -- Ken

In 60s I recall structures similar to trailer homes mounted on flat cars for MoW workers. -- Ted Larson Trainweb.org/MHRR --- GN in 1965 --- NASG.org

Used to see MANY utility pole loads set up that same way. Idlers used to allow shipping poles longer than the flat of gon. -- Ted Larson Trainweb.org/MHRR --- GN in 1965 --- NASG.org

Folks, I have a set of HO Scale "Early" CABOT (CABX 107) carbon black hopper decals that I'm not going to use. I believe that they might have come with an early release Rail Shops model but they may

Even into the seventies the prewar steel cars had utility for certain classes of rough freight. I remember in the mid seventies riding the Lake St. "L" and seeing the C&NW team track yard at Rockwell

It could also be that railroads cut back on the use of sleeping facility type work cars. Unionized workers went to motels and restaurants instead of sleeping on the rails. J. Stephen Sandifer

The Standard Coal Company was located on the Denver & Rio Grande's Spring Canyon Branch in Standardville Utah. As the name indicates, it was a "standard city," one of the first built to a master plan,

Bob, Your post generated a fascinating discussion. Good 'ol American ingenuity...when there's a need someone will come up with a solution to fill that need. I found a patent

Not sure why, but the 40' steel boxcars didn't seem to be well represented in later MoW builds. One supposition I have is that more of the 40' steel cars from the forties and fifties tended to be

Photo: OR&N Boxcar 5060 (1902) Photo from the University of Oregon Libraries: https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:df711c688 End view. Photo can be enlarged. From Wikipedia: “The

I'd like to draw attention to the ACF design underframe with the exposed channel cross bearers-basically the same as the ART reefer in another recent post on this site. ACF used this design a lot in

This car was an ART design built about 1912-14. by ACF . The shorter door was common on cars of this vintage-consider PFE R_30-5 or 6 as built. There seems to have been a trend around or just after

Bruce, Most certainly coal would freeze in the winter if the loaded open-topped coal cars were snowed on or were subjected to other winter precipitation that froze in the loads. Back in the 1980s and

As Bruce said, they're idlers. The girders are a bit longer than the cars' I.L. Note that the gons each have an open drop end facing the adjacent flat. The cars are in groups of three, two gons with

Thanks to all for the additional information. I was surprised that coal freezing was an issue. I would have thought a winter’s supply of coal would be in place long before the harsh weather I

I wonder how many box car doors came off their track while rocking on these type of unloaders. I often come across photos and damage reports on door issues in the pre-1930 decades. Eric