Al Kresse wrote: Nope. After 1950 it declined sharply, and by 1959 the railroads were carrying under 10 per cent of the new autos. Introduction of auto racks on flat cars in 1959 reversed this

Bruce Smith wrote: There are two photos of this exact thing, on SP, in my Vol. 3 on flat cars, pp. 302, 303, and they are 1959-model cars. But I don't know how rare it was. Tony Thompson

"Buildings" doesn't necessarily mean houses. They could have been surplus Quonset huts or other prefabricated industrial/commercial buildings. KL

It seems to me that there are a number of influential and respected people on this list that are of the opinion that certain (as yet unidentified) standards are needed to help Prototype Freight Car

Interesting how "XF" morphed from "Furniture" to "Food" in later years. In the future for this list. SGL

I don't have my reference material in front of me but I have inspected several cars at the Perris museum and they had a Murphy XLA roof if my memory serves me correctly. Gene Deimling cannot give

In a message dated 5/21/2008 10:19:52 PM Central Daylight Time, timboconnor@... writes: There is no XF type listing in the 1953 or 1972 ORER's. I think the large "XF" stencil used by

I used to see lots of 50' boxcars, particularly from southern roads, spotted at a Levitz furniture warehouse on the SP Huntington Beach branch. Jim Lancaster

Marty, you are correct. The War Department prohibited commercial markings on Government equipment. This went so far as to cause the factories to alter the stamping dies so that commercial logos did

There is a photo of a train of TTX P-S "Lo-Dek" flats carrying loaded auto trailers in the 1961 CBC. The photos there generally show new things since the last issue (1957), so it was probably in the

F&C www.fandckits.com <http://www.fandckits.com/> sells a kit of auto size crates with Dodge & Plymouth labels. You'll find them under HO detail parts. Jim Hayes Portland OR _._,___ No virus

Andy's response is correct as far as it goes, but let me take it a bit further. The Santa Fe began purchasing larger, taller (for their day) box cars with wide doors, which were identified in

Hi Malcolm, Double doors seem to be common characteristic of furniture cars, and they were certainly a feature of the Santa Fe's Fe-class furniture and automobile cars. So long, Andy Andy

Marty, you're right that I responded before I saw your later post. I think you're probably correct that the photo was postwar and that the contents of the crates were Ford cars (or possibly

Both cars had Barber S-2 trucks. Richard Hendrickson

It's worth noting that the Santa Fe's "Fe" classification (as in "Fe-P") stood for "furniture and automobile" cars. Automobiles seem to have become the more important business category of the two,

Mike, Yes, it used to be the Bellaire Roundhouse, but he moved, I don't know, maybe 10 years ago, to South Main in Houston, and called it the, "Houston Roundhouse". The store is much bigger now than

Hello everyone, I'm looking for information about the trucks used on the New York Central boxcars in NYC 168000-168999, Lot 773-B. These cars were built in 1949. Prototype photos can be found

Richard, See my follow-up comment - I understand Ford built the Jeeps -- which druing the war was the familiar name for the Ford "G"overnment - "P" - 80" wheelbase -- but were the Jeeps shipped

put .010" x .060" styrene strips where the car lines had been. That's too thick -- should be more like .0014" to represent 1/8" sheets overlapping. (Various list members suggested thinner plastic