An interesting view of the differences in "Yellow/Orange" -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Anymore have any "guesses" as to these freight cars? My modeling guesses would be the Roundhouse hopper could be used to model the three bay hopper and the last car might be a AAR 1937 design, but

Rob, As noted by others, nope, not at all surprised, but then I am very familiar with PRR's boxcar classes and know that the left opening doorway on a steel boxcar (along with the deep fishbelly

Before WWII, almost all Pennsy cars had left opening doors. Similarly, most Erie and B&O cars also had left opening doors, as did many smaller eastern fleets (and for a time, about half of the SP's

Rob Kirkham wrote: "But, tell me for real, were you really surprised to find it was a car with a left opening door. And was there more than one class of PRR cars that had left opening doors? (I

Gary Thank you. Paul Doggett

Hi Rob, Westerfield offers kits for the X25. See” https://id18538.securedata.net/westerfieldmodels.com/merchantmanager/index.php?cPath=101_395. Pax, Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No.

lol, that gave me chuckle. I really thought the quote marks would indicate it wasn’t so much my choice of words as a descriptive label i’ve seen used somewhere else. First time i’ve been

James, thanks for the reply and expounding on the subject. Bruce Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Eric, Thanks for pointing out that this is an X25. The terminology "wrong way" door is outmoded and inaccurate. There is nothing "wrong" about a left opening door and in fact, it was quite common with

Yes Bruce, I fully understand what you posted. Though I think much of what you reason with is in the eye of the beholder. As an NP historian, the 48000 and 49000 of NP cars are in fact, fairly

Hi Ray - was wanting to ask a question about one of your articles on the Design Build Op blog. Can you send your email address to rdkirkham at live dot ca? Rob

Many freight cars active in the pre-1960 domain of this group may have been rarely photographed before that cutoff date. Photographs of such cars taken at a later date are of great value to members of

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 02:19 PM, Dave Parker wrote: IMO, the NEACX stencil is some sort of "typo" at the paint shop. The reporting mark is consistently NEAX from 1934 to 1940 (at least). I can't

Dave and others interested, In going thru the ACF photos and records, I cannot find a lot number for NEACX 32. Because of this I surmise the car was purchased 2nd-hand. Interestingly, NEAX 32 appears

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 03:40 PM, Tony Thompson wrote: I have seen photos of workmen hand-painting to cover the stencil gaps.And the sheet metal stencils used in production painting of freightcars

That's a great two-fer! A Pennsy X25 box car and a classic Autocar truck! The X25 cars were the first steel-sheathed box cars for the Pennsy. Almost 10,000 were built between 1915

I have seen photos of workmen hand-painting to cover the stencil gaps. Tony Thompson tony@...

Given that the face page of this site lists the era covered here as and I am copying and pasting it: "The purpose of this list is to discuss all aspects of North American freight cars of the steam

Thanks for the pointer. I fund this (new to me) car:https://mohistory.org/collections/item/P0403-12111-03-4a?fullscreen=1