Bill Welch asked: It keeps the top corner of the rib out of the eave notch. Scott C

Lightweight of car was as you note 38000 lbs These cars were not interchanged and were stenciled against loading to US points. Looking at the 1956 and 1960 ORER, I note that the 373001-373129 cars

LOL! I've already got one; it's vurrry nice! -- Brian Ehni

Tony Thompson wrote The WHIX cars, all with identical ends, were built in three orders from PC&F in 1952, 1953, and 1954-1955. There are photos of three of them in Classic Freight Cars Volume 3. I

sctry wrote: The SRLX reefers were also owned by GATC and leased to Swift. Tim Gilbert

Jeff English wrote (responding to Bill Welch): I agree with Jeff. Looking at the box cars SP wfas building in its own shops, and purchasing ends from SRECo, it is obvious that the

Bill, I have a shot of WHIX 70000 (from the GNRHS 1999 calendar) that shows the weird ribs, but also a good 1970's photo of WHIX 70635 that really shows the ribs well -- and they are UNUSUAL to say

have cooled is to major upper Using up parts is the best guess I can come up with. I doubt if it was a repair, because reefer ends tend not to get blown out. AFAIK, they did not have an

In addition to these General American and Pfaudler cars, I believe that General American also built similar styled cars at a nominal 37 ft for meat rail service with Swift one of which appears to

Yes, contact me directly off list since this is "off topic" ...

Brian, I have a NIB 40 footer for $150.00. Chuck Hladik rutlandrs@...

..........And then what happened?Armand Premo

Phil Buchwald writes- Phil, this is one of small number of similar 50' (52'?) URTX cars built in two groups for the Milwaukee and the EJ&E (!) in c. the late '30s. They were not often

Not to start another tangent, but the F&C/West Shore B&O M53 is similar. Though not a solid block, it's close enough that it doesn't need any appreciable weight added! Thanks for all the info on

Andy, A P.S. Regarding the F&C Pfaudler steel cars -- I do believe the story that Steve made a rubber-mold copy of the Overland model, and therefore he might have some trouble "redoing" them. I

Andy, I'm fairly sure the steel Pfaudler cars were not 50ft -- it was more like 47ft or 48ft if I recall. I used to have all of them when I was first starting out and planning on being a Rutland

Elden Gatwood asked: I'm happy to see that back-issues of TKM are available on CD's. It's nice to be able to go back and look up information right when you need it. I'd like to see an article or two

Phil, Thanks for your kind words regarding your observations on the 'Pfaudler' Milk Car display at the W. Springfield, MA show. Many superb modelers and myself make up the increasingly attraction

Judging from photos of the Clover House dry transfers and my slide of CMWX 1008, the major lettering is near dead on (close enough for me, anyway); I'll have to do the reporting marks and capy data,

The Clover House, though if necessary, I can make my own with my ALPS. I've got the Clover House someplace against this need, and I will need to compare them to my slide of CMWX 1008. --