David, You can find a few photos here: http://prr.railfan.net/freight/classpage.html?class=X43 Kevin Lafferty

Ted, Ben, & Tim, It is obvious that none of these guys have been east of Pittsburgh for a long while or maybe not at all! After all, people from Philly who go to the west coast have to import things

So PRR boys - How close is the BLT factory-painted 604000 series to a true PRR X43? Also, are there any online photo references to the prototype? Thanks! David Lehlbach

By the by, this discussion prompted me to order one of the O&W Car Shops brass D&H Seley hoppers. Theiy're very reasonably priced (it was $112 with shipping.) Here's a photo of one of Bill

Kevin: The cylinder was located between the center of the car and under the door post, closer to the B end. The control valve was located on the same side of the car, under the door post closest to

Bob American Motors was a minor player in the auto industry and if I'm not mistaken Kenosha was their only assembly plant. So they would have to find the means to ship assembled cars. You will

Bob American Motors was a minor player in the automobile industry as was Studebaker. They weren't as wide spread as the big three. rwitt_2000 wrote:

Jeff, I admire your courage at defending the indefensible. I have given many thousands of dollars to Amtrak over the years, but I'm not a customer anymore. I think most people can tolerate an

Point well taken Jeff. Like the 4 hour layover example coming up for someone. My thoughts are I'd rather be 2 hours late getting in to Chicago and spend that time on the train, even if it is sitting

Lake never less While this can be true, it nonetheless is indicative of a "double standard" in peoples view of on-time performance. If you were driving from New York to Chicago and estimated it

There are a few nice older freight car photos at this site. http://www.castlegraphics.com/graphic/transportation/rail.html Clark Propst

Tony Thompson wrote Remember that the auto industry was de-centralized in the steam era! Cars were built as close as possible to customers. So the rail share of auto traffic was not nearly as high

I will try to make it down those 20 miles this weekend and photo those GTW 50' cars. If I can get inside I'll measure those grain lines and take pics. Terry

Shawn, I sent John Nehrich a Soph Marty jpeg of a GTW car with the end doors open. It would have been taken in the late 50's early 60's. I remember giving the shot the wrong location. It is posted

You guys is all lightweight coffee drinkers. Out here in God's Country we drink Real Coffee. And if there's any of it left over, then we mix it with gravel, and use it to pave our roads with! P.S.

Someone recently asked about Seley hoppers and who had what. I asked a similar question a few months back. I've pasted below an informative response from David Thompson. Hope this helps. Eric

I for one will be thrilled to see an accurate Santa Fe mechanical reefer at long last! But how can we get a PFE and an SFRD car in plastic? Sounds fishy, pardon my skepticism... They have little in

Not exactly the case based upon the recent article in RMC about the specially built yard in Bain, Wisconsin on the C&NW for the American Motors assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It seems to have

Terry, Next time you visit those cars you should measure the distance from the floor to the grain load lines. I assume they are at a lower height than those on 40'boxcars. The 50'car should reach

I’m in the process of building a Sunshine CB&Q XM-25 (kit 17.1). The kit comes with K brake components and I would like to update it with AB components. Does anyone have any info on the layout of