Russ; The 1956-built AA 300-399 series PS-1 box cars with 6' doors went to the Baltimore & Ohio sometime after 1964 (Now we're out of STMFC scope). Not being particularly knowledgeable about the

A question: Ann Arbor was said to have purchased 100 PS-1 40' box cars from Pullman Standard in 1956. The N&W absorbs the Wabash, does not want the Ann Arbor, and sells it to the DT&I. Somewhere in

No. "Diamond" was a retail gasoline brand, and Diamond stations eventually became D-X stations. Mid-Continent's "Diamond" brand had no connection with Diamond Alkali. Richard Hendrickson

Tony, Thanks for the information. That clears up the mystery for me. One of these days I'll have to see about acquiring a copy of your PFE book. Cheers, Pierre Oliver reefer generating found

Pierre Oliver wrote: Pierre, I explained this in some detail in Chapter 7 of the PFE book (pages 150-153). Here is a short summary. The overhead-bunker design did provide much more uniform

I've been reading through a newly acquired copy of Santa Fe Railway Refrigerator Cars and a question has arisen in my mind. Both CNR and CPR had, what I understand, to be great success with an 8 hatch

Superb example of what you can find on the web. This kind of information would not be readily available any other way. If it were in a book (assuming it would even be published), how many

Thank you all for the information. In fact, after looking up a photo of a Sunshine Models car, I was able to spot the MILW reporting marks on the car end. Tom Cornillie

Bingo! Just what I needed. Thanks, Kurt. Richard Hendrickson

The cars look very much like one of the cars Ted Culotta did in one of the early installments of the series on "essential freight cars." Tom ________________________________ Sent: Fri 9/15/2006

The two cars in question are [were] Milwaukee Road cars. I saw them in Red Wing a few years back, about 1999, I think. They look so much worse for wear now that the elements have had another seven

Definitely Milwaukee Road cars. I might point out, however, that they can't be "Fowler" cars unless they have slots in the framing for the sheathing bolts to allow tightening the sheathing, since that

Tom - They look like MILW SS cars that Sunshine makes. - Al Westerfield

Richard, Could those assigned to "Diamond" service have been assigned to the "Diamond Alkali" Company. As far as I know this company went from Diamond Alkali to Diamond Chemical to Diamond

Jim Hayes, Would you please contact me offline at 'storey.lindsay@...'. Thanks, Storey Lindsay Celje, Slovenia

Hi Richard: Are the logos on this page: http://zippy.cso.uiuc.edu/~roma/roadmaps/naoilD.html what you are looking for? HTH, KL

I have a 1927 AC&F builder's photo of COSX 2954, owned and operated by the Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. of Tulsa which has, on the tank sides and the dome, a diamond-shaped "Diamond" logo. Though

Hello all, I recently learned about the existance of two boxcars in Red Wing, MN that I believe are Fowler Clones. These cars will be placed up for auction later this month. Can anyone here help to

Hi, I have a mint copy of Dubin's "PULLMAN Paint & Lettering Notebook" that I would like to sell so before going to eBay I thought I would offer it to the list first. $75.00 ppd to US address.

All, One method of removing "glued" styrene items apart or from one another is to take the freight car and put it into you freezer for several days until it is solidly (is that a word?) frozen and