I have seen like photos in my research over the years (in North and at times South Dakota) and showed a photo like this to Jerry Masters, a civil engineer employed by the NP in the time frame of this

As already mentioned, Pat Wider wrote an excellent summary of the aluminum cars in RP Cyc 26, including a sensible and well-written summary of the metallurgy of the alloys used. Please consult that

I doubt the statement about leftover parts. I have the Alcoa document about their effort, along with Reynolds Aluminum, to find new markets for aluminum after the war, with all their wartime capacity

Volume 26 of Railway Prototype Cyclopedia covers aluminum house cars and refrigerator cars. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Unfortunately no side views but these are noted as being of car No. 1401 built for the Alaska Engineering Commission by Seattle Car & Foundry. Richard Wilkens

Off the top of my head the Alton, RI and M&StL all got ten. Maybe another road too? Maybe the same number for the C&O and NKP? But their cars came later with newer designed parts. These cars were

The elevator looks worse than the boxcars. Note, no tie plates on the ties nor ballast and how far apart the ties are spaced. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Photo: Milwaukee Road Boxcar 713369 (1939) Photo from the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8a05299/ Scroll to enlarge photo. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 05:23 PM, David wrote: That does seem to have been standard practice for the production cars...But they didn't stay that way. Later photos show them with a nominal 1" thick

The undec comes with both types of side posts: Jeff White Alma IL On 7/19/2022 8:41 PM, John Riddell wrote:

The IC had one aluminum reefer, to my knowledge there was never an aluminum boxcar. The reefer is preserved at McComb, MS. They also built 5 aluminum 55ton hoppers. The reefer and

Bill, I have this tool and I have to admit that I struggle to make it work. The steps are not in any particularly useful HO scale dimension so I am always having to figure out which step to use. I

Years ago I did a clinic on aluminum freight cars at an RPM meet in Salem, Oregon. I’m visiting the east coast right now or I would dig it out. I had done a fairly exhaustive literature search and

Brian, It did get gobbled up into the GM&O. My understanding is it did not stay lettered for Alton for very long. Rich Christie

Good morning and thanks very much to my request for these kits. I now have enough to get to work on them! Thanks to all! Steve Busch Here one of the Pere Marquette 8500 series cars

Brian thanks for posting that digital scan C&A 1200. The distinctive 14 panel aluminum box cars were built for five railroads C&A, NKP, RI, C&O, M&StL. The

There were also experiments in aluminum boxcars in Canada in the years following the Second World War. Canadian National had 3 aluminum boxcars delivered in January 1946 (they also had five aluminum

My bad; it was Alton, not GM&O. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "BRIAN PAUL EHNI via groups.io" <bpehni@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date:

In addition to the ones you mention, Rock Island and GM&O (?) had one. All experimental. SP overnight cars were steel painted silver. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>

There was an Illinois Central aluminum box car on E-bay last week. Not so interested in the car, but it did get me to thinking... Great Northern had one (only) aluminum box car. Ebay had a NP