Fellow Listers, It's probably safe to say that Continental Oil Company (Conoco) owned 8k ACF Type-21 tank cars, since P2K did several runs of these with 3100 series numbers. Do we know if Conoco also

Charlie, You're kidding right?? I point out PAGE 64 of your OWN advertising brochure - "Operating Doors" Regards Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Charlie Vlk:: [Snip] Nostalgia. The desire to smell ozone, and hear the loud BZZZZZzztt when the little man rockets out of the car with the milk cans... Tom Madden

Just in case anyone failed to notice, as I did at first, the "not" in the recent posts reporting that "the list of features does not inluding operating doors" on the BLI Express Reefers, here is

Thanks so much! Steve Jim and Lisa Hayes <jimandlisa97225@...> wrote:The "V mm yy" indicates the date the car was reweighed at Vancouver. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon Yahoo! Groups

Thanks to all. When (I think it was Ted) saw those cars behind the flat I was wondering about the genesis. How long did they stay in the NWP markings? I used to work in an ex-NWP freight depot in

Bob Webber wrote: Until scrapped. Survival tables are in the books. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

make the PFE version. << One thing not mentioned by Mike is the board width on the Walthers model. When originally built, the PFE express cars had "passenger car" wood siding, which has a width of

Actually, it's a flat car, page 197, but the arrangement was the same on box cars AFAIK. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

The "V mm yy" indicates the date the car was reweighed at Vancouver. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon

Tim Gilbert wrote: If this does not separate auto-loader cars carrying assembled automobiles, from the auto-parts cars carrying parts, it's not terribly helpful in making assumptions about the

Garth Groff wrote: The right answer is -4 and -5 (the S-40-6 design is a truss-rod car). Al Westerfield did pioneering research on all the early SP cars for his kit instructions, but

Bob Webber wrote: The car number in the photo appears to be NWP 5682 (correct me if that's wrong, Bob). If that is the number, as presented in my volume on SP stock cars, it's an SP Class

Ben, I checked a few ORERs and came up with this: PRR 648314-648338 (K7) 7/50: 15 4/52-7/52: 3 (as 648317-648326) 1/53: 1 (as 648326) 4/53: 0 PRR 134079-135499 (K7a) 10/63: 3 1/67-4/67: 3 (as

Tim: Rest assured, if it is post-1947, I ignore it entirely. Being a rubber-gauger, multi-era guy can get expensive very fast with my tastes. Things are expensive enough here in 1947! Regards, Ted

Mike Brock wrote: Whatever power the auto companies had over pools of cars may have been somewhat muted by the demands of WW II and the boxcar shortage immediately after WW II. Of the 267 cars cited

It looks like the cars are in the NWP 5670-5729 series, class S-40-5 built by Ralston in 1916. We do indeed have kits for all the NWP versions, both original and modernized - Al.

I am building a 1952 built Gondola that has had Side boards added to increase the capacity. The plans are in Mainline Modeler from a few years ago. The Decal sheet that comes with an extention kit

--- In STMFC@..., Bob Webber <zephyr1@a...> wrote: > Were the NWP stock cars behind the Cole Bros flat here: > http://rswebber.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=90344 > > an SP

Bob, The cars in the photo behind the circus flat appear to be from SP class S-40-5, see below: http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/stock/s040-05.htm The NWP also had stock cars of