Hi Folks Here are the DS/SS/Steel splits, 1945, and 1950, for box and auto cars in interchange service on the Milwaukee, including nearly 900 SS cars with CTSE reporting marks. January

Hi Folks Here are the DS/SS/Steel splits, 1945, and 1950, for box and auto cars in interchange service on the B&O and SP. B&O: January

Ben, Guess we will have to wait for the article on using that car to depict a live steam backyard operation for the layout. I give you credit for trying to figure it out just the same.

I was driving to a rail business meeting this past week in Killington, VT and spotted what appeared to be a single sheathed automobile boxcar sitting in a farmer's field. I was travelling on Highway

Bill, you have done an outstanding job on the masters, as well as the models, of this very interesting group of the FGEX / WFEX / BREX cars. I am looking foward to the kits at Naperville. This is a

Way to take one for the team, Ben! Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

Tim, The NP reefers in the 91500-91999 series had 6 foot door openings but no plug door. They had a normal hinged swing type door with the left door hinged to another section creating a 6 foot

This type of door was used on the MDT 14000 and NRC 20000 series cars built by PCF in 1958 also. Roger Hinman

PFE and NP bought cars with these combination swing-plug doors -- the PFE class was R-40-28. Tony Thompson probably can tell you the logic behind the doors. It was not repeated on subsequent

I noticed the unusual (to me) door arrangement on the PFE reefer (PFE 11303) pictured on the following link: http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=26183 The door appears to be a

I would agree with CJ, having lived in the Pgh area for some time when I was younger; I wonder if anyone was tasked with cleaning out gons. There was no such thing as an empty gon. Every one I ever

Ed Mines wrote: "The fall HistoricRail catalog lists a "new" 55-Ton 2-Bay Fishbelly hopper (LV, p.2 7) with die cast underframe and slope sheets. My recollection is that the Stewart car had a plastic

Ted, I would have to say just the opposite. Now just about every large business has dumpsters scattered all around their property. Before the "Dumpster Era" empty gons were the standard

Hi Folks Here are the revised DS/SS/Steel splits, 1945, and 1950, for box and auto cars in interchange service on the ATSF, with data provided by Richard Hendrickson added in. Thank you, Richard,

You may be able to find it at an auto parts store, since that shade is still preferred for "rat rods". CJ Riley --- pierreoliver2003 <pierre.oliver@...>

Class Fe-13, rebuilt as steel sheathed cars in 1937, modified during WW II with extended roofs for aircraft and auto parts service. Class Fe-15, rebuilt as steel sheathed cars in 1937, modified

Just to clarify, NYC's system of identifying freight cars by lot number was not, strictly speaking, a classification system. There are many examples of identical cars with different lot

In the 1950s SL-SF freight car diagram book I have, there is no reference to a system of car class symbols. The word CLASS: appears on each diagram, but what follows it is actually a brief

Frank Valoczy asked whether SLSF, C&O or WM used freight car classification systems. I can't speak about the SLSF or WM, but according to Carl Shaver's book "Freight Car Equiptment of the C&O Rwy.

Hi Folks Here are the DS/SS/Steel splits, 1945 and 1950, for box and auto cars in interchange service on the ATSF. January