Heck everybody knows you can only put 10 fattened or even non fat cattle in a 40 foot car. Anything less or more would be more feet. Chuck Hladik

I took several pics last July of a Pennsy G29 gondola in captive service at Standard Steel in Lewistown PA. This particular car has the 70t National B3(I think) but they look identical. I posted the

Jerry, et al. Apparently the web site provider had a major brain fart and deleted the entire PRRT&HS site while "decomissioning some equipment" last Saturday. From the description it seems as if

What's up with access to the site? I keep getting a "Page cannot be displayed" for the past week or so. I didn't try to get the latest issue when new as my cable service was down with all the storms

Hi All, Since my John Deere post was not the discussion inspiring post it could have been, I'll pitch this one out. The amount of information exchanged on a weekly basis in staggering to me. I still

There's a photo of a NH USRA hopper behind an Erie steam locomotive in one of the soft cover Erie steam books from the '70s (I think it's a Carlton book). I think the photo was taken near Maybrook,

Hi, I'm getting ready to paint an Erie/URTX steel reefer using a Pacific Rail Shops S scale 40' (PFE R-40-23) with an added on horizontal riveted seam. The only photos I have of the prototype

Bill Welch wrote: There will be a 12-Step breakfast at the IHOP near the Timonium Fairgrounds Saturday, October 9 at approximately 8 AM to discuss our addiction to buying freight car photos, kits of

I think Portola has a WP 53' gon with National B-1s under it.

Marty,I hope you have included some CV hopper bottom box cars in dedicated grain service, or others of the 40000 series in captive service on your roster.The top loading hatches make some of the cars

--- In STMFC@..., "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@c...> wrote: <snip> "BLI is advertising their stockcar as a PRR K7a ..." If there was that much information - what the prototype for the model was -

NYC 72000 series would be Lot 850-B, 800 cars built in 1954 through 1955. I only have one confirmed BLT date of 6-54. These were fifty- foot, single-door cars built by Despatch Shops with DS ends

If the information on the box label was limited to the data printed on the car I don't see any major problems. If the manufacturer is expected to hold out that particular paint job existed for a

To expand on what Ben said, I think that as a private owner, Berwind was actually shipping coal via its own cars directly to customers. My dad remembers seeing Berwind cars in the New Haven area in

Dennis, I don't know if you were looking for prototype examples or not, but this is the way it worked at the Monon Freight house next to Dearborn Station in Chicago. There were four tracks there

Or, right back to A, B, and C. I'm thinking that railroads tend to route LCL cars onto their home road, so that from my PRR freight house in Wilkes-Barre the D&H and B&M boxcars will generally be

Armand Premo wrote: Still a mystery, at least to me, were the number of Berwind cars that were interchanged with the CV at Alburgh. They were generally returned as empties in approximately three

Let me rephrase the question. WOULD the running board be painted black like the roof, OR be unpainted (possibly with overspray here and there?) I speculated on the reduction in contrast because my

Marty,I think this thread is worth pursuing.The Rutland stopped sending their hoppers off line in 1923 Company coal arrived on line and was off loaded at Alburgh where it was transferred to company

Garth: My mini-kit did come with both Montour and C&I decals. Regards, Ted Culotta