Bob, there is a drawing of the Washburn truck side frame in the 1928 Car Builders' Cyclopedia, as well as a photo of a very similar truck identified as a "Tatum XLT Improved Arch Bar Truck Used on

I've been wondering that myself, so I will hand off your query to the publisher, who subscribes to this list. Richard Hendrickson

That's what I thought, Ted, until I discovered that I have photos of the large C&EI stenciling on gondolas built as far back as 1910. However, I don't have any evidence of its use on box cars prior

May I have an update on your progress on the billboard reefer book?

Correction:you ARE NOT impelled

For what it is worth;There are many members of this group who may be at the entry level of the hobby.Many lack the background of the more experienced hobbyist.For the advancement of the hobby I think

I hate to clutter up the list with needless bandwidth, but there are a number of people who make their own decals for steam era freight equipment using these printers. I thought that the message

Tony: I believe that the style to which you are referring came into being at the beginning of 1937 with the C&EI's first 1937 AAR box cars. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 645 Tanner Marsh

From time to time the subject as recently titled "Parasitism" seems to find its way into discussion on the STMFC. As has been mentioned by others, none of us has a copy of every reference book

Paul C. Koehler: True, AFAIK. That's the problem with absolute statements. What you say, Paul, is >usually< true, but not railroad performed everything at their own expense to lay the siding and

Bob Chaparro wrote: Yes, indeed. One place you might have read this is in my Vol. 4 on SP box cars (includes ventilated cars and refrigerators). They were used in on-line company

wrote: Richard, I don't have that CBC to compare the photos, but according to an article in Railway Age (April 12, 1924) it describes the use of arch bar trucks designed by Edwin C. Washburn,

Somewhere I read that the Southern Pacific had reefers on its roster lettered for the SP and not PFE. As the story goes, these cars were acquired from the El Paso & Southwestern in the 1920s. Does

Ok... trying again... Thanks for the replies everyone. Just to clear up a couple of things. There were certainly industry sidings on 'R' Street that wandered off onto private property; the two

There are also at least a few individuals on this list who are not model railroaders, but who are searching for information about freight cars to support academic research and/or railroad

--- In STMFC@..., "Justin Kahn" <harumd@...> wrote: .... > Just to deal with steam era freight cars, I have availed myself of this list > a number of times, because I would like to

book there is << Tony There are many books that I wouldn’t have read if I hadn't seen them referred to on this list and recommending a book isn’t the same as telling someone to buy a copy. Most

I'm not sure about the legal issues, but the Pennsylvania Railroad in its CT-1000 "List of Stations and Sidings" books - identified each siding by the names of the companies on those sidings;

As most of us realize, list members like Jace Kahn and Dan Stinson could hardly be accused of "parasitism," as they ask questions which are not only focused and intelligent, but ordinarily reveal that

appreciate relatively-limited living modeling, Thanks, Jace, for describing the position I suspect many of us find ourselves in. Like you, I don't model most of these railroads as my primary focus. I