Try http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsaquery.html You can then choose either color or b&w or both. Then enter search words like box car or yards, etc.

Dave Nelson writes: These two are rather interesting. Perhaps D&RGW figures are due to the Utah Coal Route, but UP's is intriguing. I certainly can understand the Q, given the diversity in Southern

FYI: "Christine" was RI DL-109 #621. It was re-engined by EMD, so took on a unique appearance. That's why everyone photographed it. "Christine" refers to a famous person of the '50's who underwent

That may be (tho I have some doubts about the RR's being all that helpful in 1950) and is just one more item to consider WRT foreign road cars in coal service. Bottom line is roads did receive coal

Ted Cullotta wrote: "Many photographers may have photographed freight cars because of the shock value to that particular photographer, thereby making the extremely rare seem commonplace to

Dave and friends, All coal is not the same. It has different thermal values, different chemical components, different amounts of ash, etc. Metallurgical coal (for smelting) is not the same as steamer

Mike, an interesting sidelight on L&N coal-hauling operations. Owing to chronic car shortages during WW II, the International Harvester Co. was having great difficulty getting a steady supply of coal

Doing a tiny bit of research on coal dispersal, I find this from Louisville & Nashville Railroad The Old Reliable by Castner, Flanary and Dorin. I've met Castner before and he's quite

Garth wrote: Of course, freight cars themselves were almost never photographed by fans in those days, unless they just happened to be behind some monster steam locomotive. I would agree with him

Tony, Via-a-vis the C&O, the purity of their coal trains varied with different parts of the system. In Virginia, published photo evidence shows that in the late steam era the trains were about 99%

Mike Brock observed: That was indeed Pittsburgh's title--circa 1840. Doubt it was used since. It's now used to get a laugh in Pittsburgh. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Mike Brock says: Not based on the C&O photos I've browsed--though I can't claim to be anything like an expert on C&O. I don't claim N&W (or any particular road) didn't send hoppers off line. What

Charming. You Californicators have a way with words. Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

I don't have any evidence from the 1940's, but I do have plenty of photos from the "Front Range" of Colorado in the 1960's showing a lot of hoppers from distant owners, and lots of mixed up consists.

Shawn Beckert wrote From my "Report on the Alton Railroad Company", there is a table showing that "transcontinental traffic"* for 1920's-30's (1) Tonnage split about 68% eastbound, 32% westbound (2)

Quickly perusing scanned photos, I find an N&W hopper in Toronto in 1956, and another in East Texas in the 1970's (also a B&O and some MP cars, all together at an oil refinery). And I did mention to

Actually, the Burlington put their Everywhere West slogan on freight cars because they were the only one of the Hill lines that went to Chicago. What would be the point of putting such a slogan on GN

Teddy Roosevelt is rolling over in his grave... Heck, even Richard Steinheimer went to South Dakota! What makes you so special? Now get out there, and go to Wall. Timothy O'Connor